2023-05-19 19:31:00
Hernan Manrique, one of the coaches of the Vélez Sarsfield Reserve, died this Friday after decompensating in the preview of the match that the team was to play against Racing, on the 17th date of the Projection tournament. He suffered cardiac arrest on his way to the hospital, according to what the club reported.
“With immense pain we regret to announce the recent death of Hernán Manrique, one of the Reserve coaches, who decompensated before the game and suffered a cardiac arrest on his way to the hospital,” details the tweet published on the official account of Vélez, Reserve tournament leader with 37 points.
Hours later, After a formal request from Vélez to postpone tonight’s Primera División match, Racing quickly agreed. And she notified him on her twitter account that the meeting will be rescheduled.
Vélez led 2-0 at the end of the first half with goals from Facundo Pimienta and Francisco Pozzo. But when the footballers arrived at the Villa Olímpica locker room, they found out the fateful news related to Manrique. “He was a very loved guy throughout the club. The players were moved and that is why the game was suspended,” said a source close to Fortín. The television broadcast, through the LPF Play platform, of the Professional League, was interrupted. The match did not continue and, in fact, it cannot be found in the content library within that portal, as is the case with the matches that have already been played.
“It was a normal training day, except for the fact that the Reserve was playing,” recalled Pedro Larraquy, Vélez’s technical secretary for the inferiors, on ESPN. And he added: “Everything was normal. Apparently, in the technical talk, his chest hurt a little. The doctors decided that he should not enter the field. He stayed in the locker room. During the first half we received the news that he had had a cardiac arrest and that he was urgently taken to the hospital ”. At first, and due to his high complexity, the doctors who treated Manrique thought of transferring him to the Posadas hospital. Later, given the worsening of the case, they decided on a closer care center.
“Then the terrible news came. We couldn’t believe it. The technicians from the different divisions were arriving and having to give them that news was crazy. The same boys from the Reserve had to be given that news at halftime. They couldn’t go out to play anymore, of course. The match was suspended. We are wrong, because he was an excellent professional. An excellent person, a barbaric guy. Always happy, dedicated to his work, to ensure that his Reserve always fights well at the top, as he was doing. A barbaric guy!” Larraquy lamented.
“Marcelo Bravo warned us of the situation,” said Claudio Estenssoro, a kinesiologist at the Fortín Reserve. “Bravo had to give the technical talk with“ Palito ”and he didn’t see it well. Beyond the fact that Palito approached, Bravo warned us that he did not see it well. It shocked me a lot and I couldn’t continue in the locker room. I came here and I didn’t see him anymore,” Estenssoro recalled on ESPN.
Before, the kinesiologist had said that the Olympic Village is a cardioprotected area and that there was a defibrillator next to Manrique all the time. He even had an electrocardiogram and that the 49-year-old former soccer player had improved in the locker room. But then he broke down: “We were on the field. The match had already started. That’s when he goes into cardiac arrest. But the defibrillator was next to him. All the maneuvers that had to be done were done. He came out of cardiac arrest and the ambulance had already arrived. Once he made up for it, he was put in the ambulance and accompanied by a club doctor. He again went into cardiac arrest in the ambulance. They change the destination to a closer hospital. And unfortunately nothing could be done.
Manrique, a former All Boys, Belgrano de Córdoba, Nueva Chicago, Chacarita and Macará (Ecuador) soccer player, was born in the Federal Capital 49 years ago. As LA NACION was able to reconstruct, he fainted while the players were warming up beforehand and was taken to a nearby medical center. Manrique shared the position in the Fortín Reserve with Marcelo Bravo, a former footballer from Vélez who had to leave professional activity due to an arrhythmia.
Part of the superior squad of Vélez, who was going to play against Racing in Avellaneda tonight, was watching the Reserve match, so he was an eyewitness of what happened with Manrique: the Olympic Village works as a concentration place.
There were signs of affection from various clubs that Manrique passed through during his football career, which started with All Boys. Those from Floresta were one of the first to express themselves through social networks: “The All Boys Club regrets to announce the death of Hernán Manrique, a player from our institution and 1992/93 Primera B champion. Our condolences to his family, friends and loved ones.” Belgrano de Córdoba, whose jersey was also worn by Manrique (1996-1998) added to the memory: “Belgrano deeply regrets the recent death of Hernán Manrique, a former soccer player who left his mark on his time at our beloved institution. Goodbye, Palito.”
So did Nueva Chicago: Manrique played for Torito in the 90-91 and 2000-2001 seasons, making history by scoring a goal in the final for promotion to the first division against Instituto de Córdoba. “We regret to inform the death of Hernán “Palito” Manrique, former player of our institution. Palito was part of the squad that was promoted to the First Division in 2001. In addition, he scored the goal in the first final against Instituto in Mataderos. We send our condolences to family, friends and loved ones”, says the publication of the Mataderos club.
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