The official version of the cause of his death was not released, although the man suffered from silicosis, a lung disease that affects mine workers.
The Chilean Mario Gomez, the longest-lived of the group 33 miners who were trapped in a mine north of Santiago, Chile, in 2010 and that inspired the German footballer and national team player of the same name, died this Saturday, a local funeral home reported.
Candelariaa funeral home company Copiapo800 km north of Santiago, reported in a statement “the sensitive death of who was in life Mr. Mario Nicolas Gomez Heredia”.
The official version of the cause of his death was not released, although Gómez suffered from silicosis, a lung disease that affects mine workers.
Mario Gómez, one of the 33 Chilean miners who inspired the German footballer of the same name, has died
Gomez was part of the group of 33 Chilean miners who were trapped in the August 5, 2010 more than 600 meters deep in the San José mine, near Copiapóand were rescued 69 days later after a successful operation followed by millions of people.
The day of the accident Gomez was 63 years old, He was the eldest of the group and was the ninth to see the light, after climbing up a metal cage just 66 centimeters in diameter, through a hole drilled for more than a month. The life of the Chilean miner was the inspiration for the German footballer Mario Gomez.
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The striker watched on television as miners struggled to get out of the bowels of the earth and immediately connected with the story of the ninth miner to be rescued, which bore his name.
The footballer, now retired, He used the number 33 as a ritual and soon after he broke out of a scoring drought.
Source: Ambito
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