25 years after the sad death of Mirko Saric: What other similar cases occurred in Argentine football?

25 years have passed since the death of Mirko Saricbut still hurt as in that 2000. On April 4 of that year, the player who played in San Lorenzo made the decision to take his life.

The news surprised at the local level, mainly because it was a 21 -year -old boy. The case not only left a mark on national football, but helped to begin paying attention to the mental health of athletes.

Mirko Saric’s story

SARIC debuted in professional football In San Lorenzo With 18 years before Union el December 22, 1996. Since then, the steering wheel adapted and turned into a key piece of the scheme of the coach of that time, Oscar Ruggeri.

In total he played 47 games -40 in the First Division and 7 in international competitions-, in which he scored six goals. However, one day was to speak to Ruggeri to express how he felt: “I don’t make meaning to life.”

While the coach helped improve the situation, Saric was mired in a deep depressionwhich was at the beginning attributed to a Cross ligament injury. However, in 2020 the player’s parents revealed that he had learned through a DNA test that The son he had with his partner was not his.

Other cases of depression suicide in Argentine football

Saric’s is not the only case of suicide due to depression in Argentine football. Some who resonated a lot were the deaths of Uruguayan Santiago “Morro” García at 32, in 2020, and the Julio César Toresaniat 51, in 2019.

In the same year that Toresani also committed suicide Claudio Apud and César Borda. A little further back in time, in 1994 Alberto VivaldaRiver and Racing ex -artico, At 37 he threw himself at the tracks of a train in Vicente López.

Other deaths that Argentine football lamented were that of Sergio Schulmeister In 2003, the goalkeeper Mariano Gutiérrez in 2008 and Héctor Larroquewhen I was archers in Laferrere at 39.