Carlos Salvador Bilardo, reference of Argentine football and world champion in Mexico 1986.
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The former Argentine coach Carlos Salvador Bilardo experiences a deterioration in his state of health, said his friend and ex -senior technician Miguel Lemme on a local radio, in which he said: “He no longer recognizes anyone. Sometimes except, sometimes, he confuses the daughter with the wife.”
Bilardo, world champion with the Argentine soccer team in the World Cup in Mexico in 1986, faces the symptoms of Hakim-Adams syndrome, or normal pressure hydrocephalus, which causes progressive cognitive deterioration.
In that context, Lemme said that Bilardo suffers problems recognizing other people, including his own family. “The disease it has is not recoverable, but I always see it well,” said his former collaborator about the medical and family accompaniment surrounding the former 87 -year -old technical director.
💔🗯️ “Carlos (Bilardo) no longer recognizes me. There are days that I become crying to my house”
💔🗯️ “I always said: the day I don't recognize me I don't go anymore, but it's stronger than me. I can't leave it”
🗣️Miguel Ángel Lemme, friend and historical assistant of Carlos Bilardo in @Superdorradio pic.twitter.com/dY6gdeXaG7
– Emiliano Nunia (@eminunia4) July 15, 2025
Lemme, a member as a student's footballer who under the “Doctor” command was Argentine champion in 1982, he declared with pain: “I will not leave it. I do not let her hand crazy like him did not release it.
“I always said that the day I don't recognize me, I'm not going anymore. But it's stronger than me. I can't leave it,” said Lemme, 72, who worked alongside Bulardo in Sevilla in Spain (1992-1993), as his technical assistant.
Carlos Bilardo is one of the most important coaches in the history of Argentine football, with an extensive career that included, with Diego Armando Maradona on the court, the World Championship in Mexico 1986, and the final of the same tournament in Italy 1990.
From the beginning of their condition, members of those World Cups often visit Bilardo at their home in the city of Buenos Aires.
The relationship between Bilardo and Maradona was always very narrow, so the family and friends of the former coach decided not to inform him immediately about the death of the star, which occurred in November 2020, so as not to affect it.
However, after a few months they told him, since the 'nose' noticed that 'Diego' had stopped visiting or calling him on the phone. According to their relatives, Bilardo could see on television the entire Catar 2022 World Cup and celebrate the triumph of the selected selected by Lionel Messi and Lionel Scaloni.
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