The health status of Andre Marin It has given a lot to talk about in recent days. His recent appearances on the show The last wordthe most important of Fox Sports, turned on the red lights in social networks. Various users pointed out that the deterioration of his health was already very evident. After the wave of comments, the network announced in a statement that Marín will be off screen for a while to continue her recovery.
After that announcement, several sports media personalities expressed their solidarity with the presenter. But definitely no message stood out as much as the one from Jose Ramon Fernandez. “André, I hear that you are in poor health. You are a very professional man but first and foremost is your health. I wish with all my heart that you are very well soon. A lot of strength André and a big hug, André”, the ESPN commentator tweeted. The responses to the tweet showed respect for both: to Marín for the moment he is living, and to Joserra for putting aside the differences he had in the past with one of his most outstanding students.
The war was always one-sided, at least on a public level. Fernández accused Marín in 2008 of having been a central part of the machinery that operated against him to force him out of the TV Azteca sports area in 2006. “André came to Azteca without knowing how to do anything. He had no father or mother, in the Good sense of the word. Today he has no mother, in the bad sense of the word. He learned something, not everything. He didn’t even go to school, he left all the schools, he was a donkey. He was one of the men who most sought the possibility for me to go out, taking advantage of an illness (José Ramón suffered peritonitis after returning from the 2006 World Cup). He went with the company authorities. He spoke ill of one, of another. He moved his nets,” Fernández said in an interview with The universal.
During the five years after Fernández left TV Azteca, André Marín remained one of the main faces of the company, but the trident made up of Luis García, Martinoli and Campos gained enormous importance at the media level. Finally, Marín left Azteca in 2011 and signed with Fox Sports to become direct competition for his former boss and teacher. During all those years, Marín never expressed any opinion about Fernández.
Marín and José Ramón participated in a Telcel commercial in 2014, but their dialogues were cut off, that is, at no time did they coincide on screen, even though it seemed that they were talking. The real reunion came in 2017. Univisión organized a meeting between commentators from Televisa, TV Azteca, ESPN and Fox Sports, in order to raise funds for the earthquakes that had shaken various areas of the country that year. André Marín and José Ramón were two of the main guests. During almost the entire program, their interaction was nil. But the moment arrived that everyone had waited for more than ten years.
Edgar Martínez, presenter of the network, urged Joseph and André to shake hands as a sign of the union that should prevail at such a delicate moment for Mexico. André Marín had a few words for his teacher: “The first thing: I never answered anything. The second, I will never answer anything. The third: I am a grateful guy. And what I know I am going to take with me to the grave”. With glassy eyes, José Ramón got up from his seat, shook Marín’s hand and gave him a hug, in what was, without a doubt, the most emotional moment of that broadcast.
Marín has spoken publicly about the disease he suffers from: Clostridium difficile. “It’s an infection in the stomach that, if you don’t take care of it with very strong antibiotics, You can get to perforate the intestine and pancreas. You don’t know how it can get to you, because my doctors told me that you can even take it in the ice of a restaurant and it rips your stomach to shreds. It is not a simple infection, what happened to me was much stronger,” said the commentator in an interview with Javier Alarcón in 2020.
In social networks there was also criticism of Fox Sports, as many users pointed out that the deterioration in Marín’s health could already be noticed for quite some time, and only until the case has gone viral have they chosen to give him rest.