Paulo Garcรฉs, a goalkeeper who currently militates in Uniรณn San Felipe, but who knew how to defend the t -shirts of the ‘Grandes’, starred in an emotional interview in which he talked about his positive sports memories and also of his most complex episodes.
In fact, about the latter, he recalled how difficult it was for his family to get ahead after his parents were scammed and were practically without anything.
โWe live in mattresses thrown in one piece, eating all of one pot all week. My dad sold blankets and rice to get the family forward, โhe told the program ‘I want to see you’, from TNT Sports.
Of course, little by little his life in football was also a ‘lifeguard’ for his surroundings. For example, he recalled the time he received $ 150 for per diem from a Copa Libertadores and gave it to his father to pay the lease they owed. “I looked at the dollars I had only seen in photos. And when I knew they didn’t have to pay, I told them: we are daddy, call them,” he said.
The house to his parents, son with neurodivergencia and the passage through the red
At present, Paulo Garcรฉs confesses to feel satisfied with what was achieved thanks to football. Among other things, he chests for helping his parents. “I wanted a loft, but I saw the house and I thought my old men deserved it more than anyone,” assured.
Likewise, difficult moments, as happens to anyone, are also present. For example, the goalkeeper also told how he lived the process in which his son Benjamin almost dies of a roast and how that led him not to arrive at Linares Sports although he had given his word. โTwo passed, three days in a row, and my son only told me: ‘Dad, please don’t go, you saved my life’. There is nothing to do with that, โhe said.
๐ฃโฝ๐จ๐ฑ “The family is first”
Paulo Garces, in #I want to see you With Javi Parra, he reported the complicated moment he lived with his son Benjamin, who almost suffocated prior to the goalkeeper departing to Linares Sports and decided not to sign for the albirrojo painting.
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In addition, the “Falcon” also reported the challenge of raising his son Valentino, who is inside the neurodivergencies: “My therapy was to cry for an hour and a half to San Felipe, dry my tears and put myself in football mode. The biggest fear is how to prepare it for the future if parents will not always be. โ
Finally, in the purely sports, Paulo Garcรฉs also thanked the experience of having been with Jorge Sampaoli in La Roja and being able to shout champion of the Copa Amรฉrica 2015. “After the game with Uruguay we only thought of being champions. This was the opportunity, there was no other. He prayed 500 our parents in the penalties,” he said.
๐ฃ๐๐จ๐ฑ “OURS 500 PARENTS IN THE PINSORS”
Paulo Garces, in #I want to see you Together with Javi Parra, he recalled the batch from the 12 steps where #Laoja He won his first continental crown, in front of Argentina in the 2015 Copa Amรฉrica.
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