The technical director of Boca Juniors, Miguel Ángel Russo.
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At the gates of a key match for the leadership of Argentine football, Boca Juniors faces another concern: the health of his coach, Miguel Ángel Russo, hospitalized this week for the third time in almost a month.
The Argentine coach, 69, was Hospitalized Wednesday While a medical studies battery is carried out, although it is expected to return to the practices soon, sources close to the popular Auriazul Club told AFP.
Technician in the campaign that led to Xeneize to raise his last Copa Libertadores in 2007, Miguelito is a doubt for the game against defense and justice on Saturdaycorresponding to the tenth day of the Clausura Tournament, which will be held between Friday and Tuesday.
If you expire on your visit and other results are given, Boca could climb to the tip of group Acurrently occupied by union with two more points.
It is not the first time that Russo, Diagnosed with cancer in 2017, which exceeded after treatmentturn the alarms in the so -called Boca world, as the massive fans of the Buenos Aires club, one of the most powerful in America, is known.
Since he assumed Xeneizes reins for the third time in June, it has been boarding school at least three timessome by an urinary infection, in the middle of a frank physical deterioration.
His voice has lost strength and walks slowlyand he was even declined and sleepy while he was in the substitute bank in the game that his team defeated Aldosivi (2-0) in Mar del Plata at the end of August.
“I am discharged from everything”
Nevertheless, The DT did not hesitate to be in the bank in front of Rosario Central (1-1), in a match where he was cheered by the fans Rosarina, who considers him almost a hero, and also went to La Bombonera to lead Central Córdoba (2-2) last weekend.
Russo had already shown a similar force in December 2017, when He won the Colombian League title under Millionaires against Santa Fe a day after receiving a chemotherapy session in Bogotá.
“There were many who said nonsense, that enter me for one ear and come out of the other. He who knows his health is one, the rest does not. If I am working, it is because I have the discharge of everything, also of my family, ”said the helmsman recently.
After a bad streak of 12 games without triumphsthe worst in its history, Boca now accumulates six meetings without stumbling, with three victories and three draws.
So, The auriazul team was fourth, with 14 pointsin an area to very couple, with ten teams separated by just four units, so there is still nothing defined for the round of 16.
Boca has kept silent about the situation of his coachalthough the president of the Club, Juan Román Riquelme, was photographed this week hugging Russo during a training.
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