A great interview on the Spanish website “Relevo” conceded the now 47-year-old veteran defender, Juanfran.
Her former player AEKhe spoke, among other things, about his tenure at “Enosas”, the two years 2008/10, even mentioning the reason why his relationship with the team broke down and he left the club.
Specifically, Juanfran revealed that in 2010 his mother had cancer, with AEK refuses his request to leave for Spain in order to be by her side.
“Look, I don’t know if I’ve ever said that, maybe not to the press, but certainly on a more private level. I go to Greece and I’m there for a year and something, but after a year and two months my sister calls me and tells me that they hadn’t told me anything, because I was away, but my mother had cancer.
I am surprised. “Bea, how?” “Yes, Juanfran, yes. He was spotted a while ago. We didn’t want to tell you because you’re far away and because we love you.” I say to her ‘Bea, tell me more, tell me why… And she told me that she was already undergoing treatment, that she was weak, that the chemotherapy was already bothering her, that her teeth would fall out, that her hair would fall out, that her mood had changed. And I really didn’t care about anything else. The next day I spoke with AEK and told everything. I told them to let me come, I wanted to come. And AEK told me no. They told me again and I rushed into the office and said “You say no when I tell you what’s wrong with me? Are you really saying no?”
My representative goes to Greece and solves everything in one day. And then Arturo told me that since I came here, why don’t I sign for Levante? And they opened up incredible opportunities for me. The main thing was that I was here because of my mother and her cancer diagnosis. I can tell you that my mother, because she was with her granddaughter every day, when she was two years old, she took life. My brothers told me that Carmen gave her life. He started laughing, he started wanting to go out, do things he used to do. Fortunately he is ok, after many operations, but he is fine”reported on this matter.
Source: Sport Fm
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