The news impacts the whole world of soccer: Lorenzo Sanz, president of Real Madrid between 1995 and 2000, died this Saturday after spending five days hospitalized affected by the coronavirus.
The former manager had 76 years and had entered a hospital center in the past Tuesday, March 17 after being at home with a fever for eight days. The man who commanded the Real Madrid club during the 1998 and 2000 Champions League coronations had previously decided not to go into hospital to avoid "Collapse the hospital out of solidarity".
“My father has just passed away. He did not deserve this ending and in this way. One of the kindest, bravest and most hard-working people I have ever seen is leaving. His family and Real Madrid were his passion. My mother and my brothers have enjoyed all their moments with pride ”, confirmed what happened on social networks his son Lorenzo, who was a basketball player in the Meringue.
The former president's greeting had worsened considerably in recent days and he was in the intensive care unit of the Jiménez Díaz Foundation in Madrid. “He spent several days at home out of solidarity, because he looked feverish but more symptoms had to be expected. When he went to the hospital, he was already admitted with a bilateral pneumonia. He has endured eight days, he did not want to collapse the hospital out of solidarity until air was short and he was worse"Explained one of his sons when the news came out that he had been hospitalized and he was detected as having respiratory insufficiency and a "Kidney failure" from a serious infection.
Sanz had served on the board of directors of one of the world's most powerful institutions in 1985 first as a member and then in the role of vice president. Towards the end of 1995 he took the presidency before the resignation of Ramón Mendoza, who had won the elections that year to Florentino Pérez. In his first full term in charge of the club, the team won the seventh Champions League in its history after 32 years drought with a victory over Juventus in the final and with a squad that had among its members another of its sons, defender Fernando Sanz.
In 2000, after raising the second Champions of his administration, he decided to advance the presidential elections due to a complex institutional situation that Madrid was going through. Sanz, who had also obtained two leagues and the Intercontinental 1998 against Vasco da Gama, lost at the polls with Florentino Pérez.
What happened to the renowned Madridista leader moves the Spanish country, which has one of the most worrying statistics regarding the progress of the Covid-19 strain. According to the latest reports, there are more than 25,000 infected and the deaths amount to 1,378. Madrid It is the community with the most cases identified in that country with 8,921 and in which they were registered 804 deaths.
"The worst is yet to come and will limit our capabilities. We are at a very critical moment and very hard days are coming, ”warned Pedro Sánchez today, the Prime Minister who recently just distributed 640,000 rapid tests to detect the infection.