Emotions of the player Arema FC overflowing after watching teenage fan Singo Edan die in the locker room inside the tragedy of Kanjuruhan.
The Arema FC players did not remain silent when they saw people rushing to the changing rooms. They did their best to help helpless fans.
As coach Javier Roca recounted on the Sports Corner program on CNNIndonesia TV, the players tried to help by waving towels and cardboard and giving water.
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The efforts of the modest players of Arema FC could not help the truly exhausted people. They must see the fans exhale their last breath in the locker room.
Roca said the players couldn’t contain their emotions because they felt they weren’t helping.
“Yes, it was really difficult, in that moment to try, to try to be still, not to be affected too much, but with such a situation it was very difficult. Guilt, with the sense of not being able to help more”, he explained Roca.
The former Persik Kediri team architect also revealed that the victim who died in Arema FC’s locker room was a teenage fan.
“Because at that time the children who died in the locker room were still small. I think they were minors.”
“There are two girls, aged 15-16. So it’s very heavy, very heavy, really what? This is an event that we don’t have to live really but well … It’s our destiny there, so we have to accept it with big heart, “said Roca.
The Chilean coach also admitted that he felt pain in his eyes from tear gas after holding a press conference after the game.
(nva / rhr)
