03/05/2024 12:06hs.
It is the decisions that define the course of each human being. And, at 31 years old, Diego Gurri can attest: He knew glory and also learned to live in hell, but the most important thing is that he knew how to get out. The Uruguayan, who arrived in Tigre in February 2017, left prison on Sunday after 10 months behind bars for “bad steps.”
“In a second I lost what made me happy and was my life: football. I didn’t value when I played football, that I had everything I wanted. I found myself behind bars for bad steps I was taking without realizing it, or not wanting to see them, because my family told me so“, he said in dialogue with Minuto Uno on radio Carve Deportiva.
The forward, who was once one of the figures of Boston River, entered Unit 1 of Punta de Rieles on the first day of July 2023. “Life leads you to trip over the stone and hit your face against the wall, but When you realize it, it is already too late and you are deprived of your freedom, unable to do anything; Your life has completely changed and you no longer depend on yourself.“he explained.
Diego Gurri spent a year at Matador. (@catigreoficial).
The unexpected turn in the life of Diego Gurri
Some 302 days deprived of his freedom invited Gurri to reflect. And, during an extensive talk with the Uruguayan media, he explained how his fate forced him to be in jail. “Complicated things came to me,” he recalled, “in life, like the separation from my son’s mother and not being able to see him, or the loss of a friend who committed suicide; Now I say they are excuses, but at the time they weren’t. I fell into a depression. It was an accumulation of negative things that clouded me and They called me to get into drugs“I didn’t seek the help I needed to seek.”
The explanation about the outcome of the also former Deportivo La Guaira and Progreso continued: “I was surrounded by bad people He even went to the courts with me. “They were waiting for me in the car to go continue with that horrible life.”
That environment forced him to serve a sentence that, in part, helped him direct his future. He understood that in prison “every day and every week does not pass, it is eternal, everything ends” and he felt “defenseless, unable to do anything.” His idea was only one: “I wanted to serve my sentence and be able to get out.”
Days in prison as a “high performance center”
The only way to abstract from reality was, for the most part, physical activity. “I tried to keep my head focused on something that would do me good and prepare me for the future. I ran it as a high-performance center and every day I trained more, with a teacher friend that I had in there. We did weights and circuits. There is a selection in there and I was able to play, I felt like myself“, revealed.
Thus he learned to “value” things that he did not consider before, such as football: “At that moment I valued it as I did not and took care when I played. I feel that this moment that I had livedr it did me good to, if I have any chance, train twice as much, arriving first, being the last to leave, helping the little ones, in everything. Nobody is free from anything, you don’t know what can happen.”
Now, Gurri seems to have left those sorrows behind and is excited about a return to the courts. Although he is aware of the reality of it. “I want to play football again, but I also have to eat and support my family, who have always been with me. I’m more excited than ever. There are good people who care about you and there are people who are looking for a team for me,” he concluded.
Diego Gurri dreams of playing again. (Uruguay Debate)
2024-05-03 15:06:25
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