Former Argentine World Cup Winner Angel Hugo Bargas Found After Going Missing: A Story of Family, Football, and Memory Loss

2024-04-29 21:01:00

Ángel Hugo Bargas, World Cup winner in 1974 with the Argentine national team, was missing for more than a day

The former player to Argentine national team in the 1974 World Cup Angel Hugo Bargasthat was missing since this sunday morning when he left his house in the Buenos Aires area San Cristobal; was found near Italy Square, meters from La Rural de Palermo. The former Chacarita defender was desperately wanted by his relatives, from whom he is suffering Alzheimer’s and senile dementia.

Police sources informed Infobae that an officer of the Citizen Security Division i City policeon his preventive walk, saw an elderly man disoriented at the intersection Gurruchaga and Santa Fe Avenue. When it identified by remembering the face that circulated on the missing persons flyer.

Immediately, The official notified the police station where the complaint had been lodged.so contact was made with Bargas’ daughter.

Just earlier this Monday, the woman appeared at the neighborhood police station 3B and notified the police that her father, who suffers from two diseases that cause memory loss and confusionWas missed.

The means of communication provided by the city police

Missing Persons Division i City police reported that, in response to the complaint, the search for the whereabouts of Angel Hugo Bargasnational champion with Chacarita in 1969 and former footballer for the Argentine national team, who was last seen when he leaves his house Catamarca at 1400.

“He left alone, left home and did not return” sources told the matter Infobae and they added that “when the morning nurse came, she was no longer there.”

1.79 meters tall, medium build, light complexion and short gray hair; At the time of his absence, Bargas was wearing green jeans, a red fleece and a black jacket; as stated in the whereabouts search flyer.

The family search page

From the beginning Racing in 1965 became the defender the following year Chacarita, where he was champion in 1969 and one of the most remembered glories. “What has always attracted me are the people. It’s not about being a fan. Chaca lives it. I lived there in the country. Chacarita must be in the first division, he brings the audience to a role. Is a feeling. You will love the club. The costumes were extraordinary, we had fun. We had interesting technicians from whom I learned a lot, we had an excellent team and we became champions, beating River 4-1 at the Racing field. “Chaca was the lift I needed,” he said in a note with this outlet.

Three years later, in 1972, he went to play at EA Guingamp from France and it would be in that country where he would end his career.

He retired from football in 1988 Angouleme French, after passing FC Nantes, FC Metz, Girondins Bordeaux, RC Strasbourg, Bastia and Stade Rennais.

With the national team jacket: he played 30 games and scored a goal

Between 1971 and 1974 he was part of the Argentine national team that played World Cup 74 in Germany, from which they were eliminated after the group stage after losing by a landslide to the Netherlands and falling to Brazil. With the light blue and white shirt, he played a total of 30 games and scored one goal.

After retirement, he was the technical director of, among others, Chacarita Juniors, All Boys, Atlético de Rafaela, Defensores de Belgrano and Talleres de Remedios de Escalada, Angouleme and Seressien.

In 2019, in a memo with Infobae held in the same house in San Cristóbal that he disappeared from this Sunday, Bargas said that after consecrating himself in France and returning to the country He had to sell his t-shirt collection: He gave them to a collector who offered him a large sum of money in exchange.

Bargas with the Nantes shirt, where he was champion

“My life is a bit monotonous. My day is sad. I am already over 70 years old and logically age is a problem. it costs me. But let’s say that football is like that, we reach a limit that we have to stop with, although I think that the coaching profession could have given me a little more, but there are things that turned out that way. Fortunately, I am very well physically, he said about five years ago and when Alzheimer’s and senile dementia had not dominated his life.

*/With information from NA

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