Izquierdo’s death raises debate in football and how players are affected by the phenomenon
The death of Juan Izquierdo27 years old, since Uruguay national teamhad a direct impact on football in South America during a comparison with Saint Paulin the second leg of the round of 16 of the Libertadores at MorumBis, he suffered an arrhythmia followed by cardiac arrest and had to be resuscitated. Transported to the Albert Einstein hospital, the player died five days later, following resuscitation procedures.
The Sao Paulo players paid tribute to Izquierdo in the duel with Atlético-MG – defeated 1-0 – in the quarter-finals of the Copa do Brasil. “Of course it’s in the way (the psychological side). It’s not an excuse why we lost, but it’s in the way. We played a game where a fellow professional lost his life. It’s complicated, the atmosphere gets heavy, everyone thinks, you can’t get it out of your head,” said Rafinha, still in the mixed zone.
Rafinha, Calleri, Michael Araújo, Wellington Rato and Giuliano Galoppo traveled to Uruguay for the athlete’s wake. In an official statement, the Uruguayan championship postponed and rescheduled two rounds of the Clausura out of respect for the player.
“A difficult moment. We have no words to say. We wanted to be here because we saw everything that happened at the stadium and we wish the family strength. I know it’s hard, but they have strength. We do the minimum, as if we were one of we came to do what we would like them to do for us. It’s like being part of our family,” Rafinha told the television Telemundofrom Uruguay.
Upon returning to Brazil, San Paolo was again defeated by Fluminense, in the Brazilian championship. The results, and the players’ statements, reveal the impact of mourning for Izquierdo on the athletes. This condition seems to be a determining factor in the performance of athletes, especially in the recent case of the Libertadores, but it is not the only one: this month Erling Haaland was excluded from training and was in doubt in the matches in Manchester after the death of a relative.
“It is a difficult time for him and his family. Our thoughts are with him and his whole family. We will see tomorrow if he will be mentally and physically fit to play,” Pep Guardiola said.
Each person experiences pain differently. In general, for the athlete, the main impact, in addition to sadness, is the difficulty in concentrating, underlines Flávia Magalhães, a doctor with 20 years of experience in sport and who has worked for clubs, CBF and Conmebol. “The pain will distract the player’s attention, making it difficult for him to concentrate. Furthermore, the athlete may also experience the associative fear of being a victim of the same fatality”, says the professional, in the event of Izquierdo’s death, during the exercise of the his profession. Feeling sad can also affect motivation. Furthermore, emotional stress can generate insomnia, early tiredness and changes in appetite, negatively impacting performance.”
Pain is above all a social and collective phenomenon. For this reason it is important to understand the impacts of this phenomenon on each individual’s environment and take care to offer them support, underline the experts interviewed by the report. Furthermore, there is no set time within which a person can stop grieving. “In a sense, pain accompanies us throughout our lives, although after some processing work we can find ways to stay interested in life,” Bregalanti points out.
In the case of Sao Paulo, the club made a psychologist available to assist the athletes after Izquierdo’s cardiac arrest. This is a trend, both in sports and business. At the Paris Olympics, for example, the COB welcomed, together with the Brazilian delegation, ten psychologists and a psychiatrist, for the first time in an edition of the Games.
“Company dynamics must include in their care the possibility that workers have time and space to process mourning. There is an individual and also collective dimension of mourning, and the work of mourning also depends on the social ritual by which it is carried out. out “, defends Goldberg. “In some cultures there is a change in dress and habits, and this must be considered – and not ignored, denied or hidden – in the dynamics of the world of work.”
Source: Terra
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