Marcelo Bravo gave details of the minutes before the death of Hernán Manrique, one of the technicians of the Vélez Reserve: “It was the saddest thing that happened to me”

The unexpected death of Hernan Manriqueone of the two Reserve coaches of Velez Sarsfieldmourned Argentine soccer. Toothpick passed away on Friday morning, while the match against Racing was taking place at Villa Olímpica, on the date of the Projection Tournament of the Professional Soccer League. Marcelo Bravo, his partner at the helm in the Liniers team, recounted how he found him in the minutes before the tragic event. “He left a wonderful, barbaric being and suddenly we don’t have him anymore. He is unbelievable, ”the former footballer began with a broken voice.

Bravo, who had a spell in the First Division of the Fort between 2003 and 2005 until a heart condition forced him to retire from professionalism early, he gave details of the last hours of Manrique’s life. “The game was at 11 and we always have breakfast with the boys at 9. We always arrive a little earlier, like 7 or 7:30. We always park the cars one next to the other, we have some mates with the companions waiting to go to breakfast. Until then he was barbaric. After breakfast, around 9:30, the boys begin to change and at 10 it was time for the technical talk. In those cases, I used to give it and he almost always finished with some items that we were missing and gave the last harangue,” he said. Indio in an interview in Radio The Network (AM 910).

“He says a few words and kind of stays still. The boys went to warm up and he sat down for a moment. There I asked him if he was feeling well. He told me no, that he began to perspire and touched his forehead. Then she touched her chest and said that it hurt a little. ‘You have to tell the doctor, Pali,’ I told him. ‘It’s going to pass,’ he replied to me. Then I spoke to the club doctor and I noticed that (Manrique) was not well, he was a little pale. And there he talked to him. On that journey I go to the field, I go back in, I see him in the bathroom mirror and he tells me that he was a little better”Bravo continued.

What follows in the story are the hardest moments. “I am honest, I did not see it well. I told the doctor to check it out well that the ambulance was there. While they were treating him we had to enter the playing field. When the first half ends, I was giving the talk to start the second half and that’s when I found out the news. It was the saddest thing that happened to me in recent times”, he stated. And she closed: “He was revived twice in the locker room and the worst happened on top of the ambulance.”

Vélez announced in the last hours that Flavio EspositoDT of the club’s Fourth Division, He will be the replacement for Hernán Manrique in the position of Reserve coach. Patrick Pisanowho currently worked as coordinator in the Video Analysis Department and assistant DT of the three Major Divisions, will move to the category that remained vacant.

Manrique began in promotion football playing for New Chicago and All Boys in the early 90s. Then he was signed by Belgrano of Cordobawith which he achieved promotion to the highest category in 1998. He held on to the highest division with the jersey of Santa Fe Union and the little bull de Mataderos, with whom he was promoted in 2000 (he scored a goal in the finals against Instituto de Córdoba). Later the midfielder wore the jerseys of Huracán, Chacarita, Atlético Tucumán and Unión de Sunchales. Currently Manrique (DT since 2010) was a member of the coaching staff of the Velezana Reserve led by former club player Marcelo Bravo. He had arrived in Vélez in 2017, he started in children’s and for four seasons he had been in Juveniles. He had even been part of the interim with the Primera squad between the departure of Alexander Cacique Medina and the arrival of Ricardo Gareca.

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