Fabian O'Neill, hospitalized for cirrhosis, is discharged

He former Uruguayan soccer player Fabián O'Neill, who was admitted to a sanatorium in Montevideo with a cirrhosis condition, was discharged this Wednesday, his daughter Martina O'Neill announced to Efe.

Hours before, during a telephone contact, the 19-year-old I had pointed that on this day they were going to do analysis to his father that, in case of success, they were going to allow leave the medical center. He also stated that he trusts the “speedy recovery“from his father whom he defined as” a very internal person “, who” keeps things very much. “

“If God wants, he will get ahead and he will improve, obviously as long as he gives him the will,” he stressed, alluding to the problems of alcoholism suffered by his father. During your stay at the O'Neill Medical Center received the support of his former partner and current coach of Real Madrid, Zinedine Zidane.

Regarding this, the young woman, born in Turin, said that it was through her mother, who knows both French and his wife. Although he could not specify who contacted the family, Martina was happy for this show of affectionas well as many others received in the last days.

“What interests me is knowing that they have people, whether or not they have money, that they want it and that they support it. I am proud to know that I have a father whom they remember as a very good person“he finished.

O'Neill, 46, began his career at the Nacional de Montevideo, a club he defended between 1992 and 1995. In 1996, 'el Mago' left for Italy where defended Juventus, Cagliari and Perugia before to return to the tricolor. In 2003, a year after playing the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup with the Uruguayan team, he decided withdraw from professional activity.