Lorenzo Sanz died this Saturday, at the age of 76, at the Jiménez Díaz Foundation from complications contracted after being infected with coronavirus. The state of health of the former president of Real Madrid, from November 1995 to July 2000, suddenly worsened after being admitted to the ICU on Tuesday afternoon with respiratory failure and after spending eight days with high episodes of fever. Lorenzo Sanz's situation was complicated due to the previous pathologies that the president suffered. A renal failure, accompanied by a high picture of hypertension, aggravated his already delicate state of health due to the positive for COVID-19. In the last hours he was intubated and sedated so that he was calmer.
“My father has just passed away. He did not deserve this ending and in this way. One of the best, bravest and hardworking people I have ever seen is leaving. His family and Real Madrid were his passion. My mother and my brothers we have enjoyed all your moments with pride DEP “, his son Lorenzo Sanz reported on Twitter.
The isolation conditions, suffered by all coronavirus-infected patients, meant that the former white president could not be accompanied at this difficult time by his closest family. Her son Fernando Sanz confirmed that his father “had been feverish for eight days but did not want to collapse the hospital and was at home in solidarity“Although his worsening eventually led to his admission to a hospital center with bilateral pneumonia.
This Saturday, his son Lorenzo Sanz was already very pessimistic with the state of health of the former president of Real Madrid: “Everything remains the same. Fighting like the champion he is, although with less and less strength after two days giving us zero hope. May the encouragement we are all giving make the miracle happen. ” In the end, that miracle did not come and Lorenzo Sanz, the president of Real Madrid of the Seventh and the Eighth died this Saturday.