Today we celebrate the world suicide prevention day, and to commemorate this day I'm writing this lines to make a point about the importance of sports, telling you that is nor matter of life or death.
Football can be upsetting, but it isn’t a matter of life and death. Depression can be. Awareness has grown massively in recent years, but there’s still so much more to be done. Suicide is still the biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK. We need to encourage and support each other to open up and talk about how we’re feeling. Love football by all means, but love life more. Bill Shankly.
5 sports Carrere that ended in suicide
Despite the success obtained, they all had moments of crisis that they could not overcome and opted to take their own lives. Please consider talking to someone if you are passing a bad time. Taking your life is not an option.
1. Hughie Gallacher
Gallacher was one of the best Scottish players and reached 624 games in eight different teams, during which he scored 463 goals. Despite being part of the national team and retiring in 1939, Hughie continued to struggle with personal problems all his life. In 1934 he declared bankruptcy after a stormy divorce.
After his retirement, Gallacher had problems with alcohol and one night he arrived drunk at home, he threw a lamp to his son by accident, so he was forbidden to see the child. On June 11, 1957, Gallacher threw himself in front of a train, after writing a note where he regretted having hurt his son.
2.- Robert Enke
After his debut on the courts in 1995, Enke became one of the best English goalkeepers. After going through several clubs, he signed a three-year contract with the Spanish team Barcelona in 2002, before returning to Germany and playing with the Hannover shirt. His final appearance in the goal line was on November 8, 2009, two days before his death.
Enke killed himself by standing in front of a train. Although the police did not disclose the details of the suicide note written by the athlete, his widow said that Enke suffered from depression since the death of his daughter Lara in 2006.
3.- Junior Seau
The American football player had already retired when he shot himself in the chest, in May 2012. His death scandalized the public since the athlete's brain was studied post-mortem and he was found to have a degenerative disease caused by the multiple blows to the head that he had suffered throughout his career.
4.- Dimitri de Fauw
On November 26, 2006, during a race in Ghent, Dimitri lost control of his bicycle and crashed into his competitor Issac Gálvez, who crashed into a railing and died. The guilt invaded De Fauw despite the fact that the police ruled that it had been an accident. Three years later, and after a long emotional torment, Dimitri took his life in his hotel room in the middle of another competition.
5.- Kōkichi Tsuburaya
In 1964 Japan was chosen as the venue for the Olympic Games, despite the aftermath of World War II. For this country, it was necessary to demonstrate their sporting capacity and the responsibility fell to the marathon runner Kokichi Tsubaraya. In his first Olympic competition, Tsubaraya achieved sixth place. In the marathon, Kokichi was overtaken at the last minute and was in third place. Disconsolate, he left the track.
Kokichi believed that he had dishonoured his country and set out to regain his dignity by triumphing at the Mexico Olympiad, 68 but the pressure was too great. One morning the marathon runner did not show up for breakfast with his companions so they went up to look for him in his room, only to find him next to a suicide note that said: "I am too tired to run anymore".
Thank you for reading me and remember that sport is the most important thing of the less important things. It does not matter that today you have not won, surely tomorrow you will have a new opportunity.
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