| A footballer dies in Argentina 16:41 - May 14 with 4969 views | QPR_ARG |
Upon his death, a message he posted on Facebook has me in tears.
Emanuel Ortega was a Primera C player (something like League 2 but with a lot less money involved). He fell and hit his head against a wall (too close to the pitch) during a game. There's footage, but I don't even want to see it.
The accident happened a few days ago but he died this morning. The Argentine FA has suspended all activity for this weekend as a result.
But there is a message he posted on Facebook three years ago that really shook me. I think a lot of the QPR players should be asked to read this.
Here's my translation:
"I may never play FOOTBALL professionally, maybe I will. But playing at an amateur level, I go after every ball with my life, even if I have to die for it. When my legs say STOP, my heart says CARRY ON. Unlike professionals, when my boots break, I don't just replace them. I spend my nights fixing them, putting the pieces together so I can carry on playing. Because this is what I love. Football is my LIFE, not just a passtime. Football is what makes me forget about everything else and I would give my life for football. The day I can't continue playing, that's when life will be over"
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| A footballer dies in Argentina on 17:23 - May 14 with 4840 views | Mytch_QPR |
Tragic, and very moving.
It's not just at QPR either - so many hangers-on at various clubs who treat the fans and club with disdain and show off their wealth with a lack of taste and respect.
This was a player who was in it for the right reasons. How many times have we said we'd rather see our team play with pride and passion?
Thanks for posting this. |  |
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| A footballer dies in Argentina on 18:02 - May 14 with 4740 views | qprewan |
| A footballer dies in Argentina on 17:23 - May 14 by Mytch_QPR |
Tragic, and very moving.
It's not just at QPR either - so many hangers-on at various clubs who treat the fans and club with disdain and show off their wealth with a lack of taste and respect.
This was a player who was in it for the right reasons. How many times have we said we'd rather see our team play with pride and passion?
Thanks for posting this. |
Like you say really sad but also inspiring; what a contrast to so many players in the uk who love to pat their club badge but who in reality live and play for the money.
RIP |  | | |
| A footballer dies in Argentina on 19:40 - May 14 with 4590 views | SterlingArcher |
This should be given to every player at QPR from Youth to First Teamer. |  | | |
| A footballer dies in Argentina on 21:51 - May 14 with 4464 views | NorthLondonR |
"football is part of I, when I play, the whole world wakes up around me" Robert Nesta Marley... Sometimes football is so simple and beautiful... RIP Emanuel |  | | |
| A footballer dies in Argentina on 21:58 - May 14 with 4445 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
Who did he play for Arg? |  | | |
| A footballer dies in Argentina on 22:23 - May 14 with 4403 views | QPR_ARG |
| A footballer dies in Argentina on 21:58 - May 14 by BazzaInTheLoft |
Who did he play for Arg? |
He played for a small club in the Southern part of the Greater Buenos Aires area.
The club is called San Martin de Burzaco. | | | |
| A footballer dies in Argentina on 23:12 - May 14 with 4346 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
| A footballer dies in Argentina on 22:23 - May 14 by QPR_ARG |
He played for a small club in the Southern part of the Greater Buenos Aires area.
The club is called San Martin de Burzaco. |
Excuse my ignorance, but is a player at that level likely to have been paid enough to see his family ok? | | | |
| A footballer dies in Argentina on 23:26 - May 14 with 4328 views | QPR_ARG |
| A footballer dies in Argentina on 23:12 - May 14 by BazzaInTheLoft |
Excuse my ignorance, but is a player at that level likely to have been paid enough to see his family ok? |
Not a chance. All of them have to have day jobs. The pyramid goes like this:
1st Tier: Primera Division
2nd Tier: Primera B Nacional
3rd Tier: Primera B Metropolitana - Torneo Federal A (the former for teams from Buenos Aires and surroundings, the latter for teams from the provinces. Promoted teams from both, go to Primera B Nacional. So this is effectively the third tier only it's divided in the same way -give or take- than Conference North and Conference South)
4th Tier: Primera C - Torneo Federal B (same principle as above)
5th Tier: Primera D
The Primera C (where San Martin de Burzaco plays) has recently been made professional -it was 100% amateur a couple of years ago-, but a salary at any club at this level is far from decent to make a living. Let alone seeing their family OK. | | | |
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| A footballer dies in Argentina on 23:31 - May 14 with 4316 views | QPR_Jim |
| A footballer dies in Argentina on 23:26 - May 14 by QPR_ARG |
Not a chance. All of them have to have day jobs. The pyramid goes like this:
1st Tier: Primera Division
2nd Tier: Primera B Nacional
3rd Tier: Primera B Metropolitana - Torneo Federal A (the former for teams from Buenos Aires and surroundings, the latter for teams from the provinces. Promoted teams from both, go to Primera B Nacional. So this is effectively the third tier only it's divided in the same way -give or take- than Conference North and Conference South)
4th Tier: Primera C - Torneo Federal B (same principle as above)
5th Tier: Primera D
The Primera C (where San Martin de Burzaco plays) has recently been made professional -it was 100% amateur a couple of years ago-, but a salary at any club at this level is far from decent to make a living. Let alone seeing their family OK. |
That's so depressing, 1 or 2 weeks of SWP's or Adels wages would probably see his family Ok, yet both those players can earn that sort of money without trying. |  | | |
| A footballer dies in Argentina on 23:35 - May 14 with 4312 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
| A footballer dies in Argentina on 23:26 - May 14 by QPR_ARG |
Not a chance. All of them have to have day jobs. The pyramid goes like this:
1st Tier: Primera Division
2nd Tier: Primera B Nacional
3rd Tier: Primera B Metropolitana - Torneo Federal A (the former for teams from Buenos Aires and surroundings, the latter for teams from the provinces. Promoted teams from both, go to Primera B Nacional. So this is effectively the third tier only it's divided in the same way -give or take- than Conference North and Conference South)
4th Tier: Primera C - Torneo Federal B (same principle as above)
5th Tier: Primera D
The Primera C (where San Martin de Burzaco plays) has recently been made professional -it was 100% amateur a couple of years ago-, but a salary at any club at this level is far from decent to make a living. Let alone seeing their family OK. |
Well let's hope the football world has a whip round and they get looked after. | | | |
| A footballer dies in Argentina on 00:38 - May 15 with 4271 views | QPR_ARG |
| A footballer dies in Argentina on 23:31 - May 14 by QPR_Jim |
That's so depressing, 1 or 2 weeks of SWP's or Adels wages would probably see his family Ok, yet both those players can earn that sort of money without trying. |
This is not a fair world, is it?
The way riches are distributed is unfair (and has always been unfair). In football and outside of it.
But yes, one week of SWP's wages would buy a flat in Buenos Aires! Imagine how many mansions and entire buildings can be bought with what he stole from QPR since 2011!
Depressing just doesn't begin to cover it! | | | |
| A footballer dies in Argentina on 06:04 - May 15 with 4185 views | FredManRave |
Such a travesty and insult to that poor kid that on "footballer day" and with the AFA having suspended this weekends games as a tribute and mark of respect that all this was abused and ignored after the utter madness of qhat happened as the players were coming out for the second half of the superclasico cup game.
An utter shambles and a very sad and embarrassing day for Argentinean football. |  |
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| A footballer dies in Argentina on 08:12 - May 15 with 4120 views | BerkoRanger |
I was invited to the Harlington training ground a few years ago (raffle prize draw) and I couldnt believe the array of top of the range cars the players (even the juniors) were arriving in.
Emanuel Ortega - RIP. | | | |
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