Mircea Lucescu's last wish, said to the doctor on his deathbed. A relative confirms the serious illness he was suffering from
Football coach Mircea Lucescu (80 years old) will be led on his last journey tomorrow, going to sleep his eternal sleep at the Bellu Cemetery in the Capital, after a life devoted to football.
Mircea Lucescu, praying on the bench PHOTO EPA
Doctor Dragoș Vinereanu (60 years old), head of the Cardiology Department of the University Hospital, revealed the last wish of Mircea Lucescu. The doctor was responsible for the careful care of “Il Luce” during the past week. According to the specialist, he wanted to die on the field, as he had claimed on another occasion.
“At one point he said to me: 'Teacher, all I want is to die on the football field'. I felt him open, somewhat at peace with himself. He was always sorry that he was not on the field. I mean, that was where his life was.
He always insisted let me go to the game, I think he insisted to everyone this, but we know that. He dedicated himself to the profession, football and generations. He was a football manager“, said Dragoș Vinereanu, head of the Cardiology Department of the University Hospital, quoted by Cancan.ro.
Ioanițoaia confirms: he had leukemia!
We appear to confirm the diagnosis received by the coach a few months before he died. The journalist Ovidiu Ioanițoaia (81 years old), a friend of the technician, publicly acknowledged the medical problem: he had leukemia, known as “blood cancer”.
“Two months ago, two and a half months ago, he had absolutely nothing. Leukemia appeared and complicated everything. In fact, he was cured of leukemia. We kept trying to disguise the diagnosis, we said it was a personal matter, but the leukemia caused and hastened the end.
He was a fighter, for him no cause was ever lost. At first he didn't want to believe it. At one point it seemed that he knew, but that he was masking it.
In any case, for him football was everything. If he had been banned from going to the match in Istanbul, it would probably have been even worse mentally. It was his destiny, he lived in speed all his life and unfortunately he died in speed, very fast. His life was football.
I had a discussion with him a week or two before the match in Istanbul and I told him, because the doctors avoided telling him the truth and I was a kind of intermediary.
I told her “Mircea, see that she is fat, that's what the doctors say”. And he said “I have nothing to do, this is how I started, if necessary, this is how I finish”. It was a risk he took.
At first he didn't believe it, then it became clear that the disease was incurable, but he couldn't get out of the game. He took a risk that ultimately proved fatal“, said Ovidiu Ioanițoaia, at Prima Sport 1.
