The difficult moments he lived from the moment he found out about his daughter’s health problem until the day she lost him, described Oscar Garcia in an interview with Athletic. The former Olympiakos coach who lost his daughter about three months ago shocks with his descriptions but also the thoughts he had and is still having…
“If I was brave before, now I am much braver and stronger. “In Spanish, we say ‘relativizar’ (ie we try to put things in perspective), so as I told my other two daughters (Jiana, 19, and Emma, ​​13) this is the worst thing that can happen happen in your life. It’s not just that we have to be strong – of course we have to cry, and we have to deal with it in any way we can. But in the end we will be strong because in the future we will look back and see that nothing will hurt more than this.” mentions – initially – Oscar GarcÃa and continues:
“I was at home and my family called me. They explained this personal matter to me and I started to feel not so good. It was the issue with my daughter, but we didn’t know what was happening to her. It was after a few weeks that they found the problem (a brain tumor was diagnosed). I called my assistant, who came to my house with his wife, and they saw that I wasn’t very well and called an ambulance to take me to the hospital.”he emphasized.
The Spanish manager of Watford describes the panic attacks he experienced and how he managed the problem and his work in the English team.
“My staff and Billy (McKinley, first-team coach) took over the team, but I was in touch with them. Then the doctors told me that I might need three or four weeks off stress-free. It was not possible to tell the owner to wait three or four weeks for me, and I did not want to stop“, he said and continued:
“I decided to do what was best for the club and leave – not for me because I was really confident we were going to get promoted to the Premier League, which was my dream and one of the biggest opportunities of my life. And I’m sure we would have succeeded because my staff stayed there and reached the Premier League with Slavisa Jokanovic. Nobody knows what happened after that, in my case with the news of my daughter, and then having to decide not to coach in the Premier League. These were huge blows. It was a difficult time and after we confirmed the seriousness of the problem I spent months not knowing what I wanted to do with my life. During that time, my family’s life changed a lot, but all these things make me very strong.”
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