Lucas Cañizares talks about the death of his younger brother Santi: “I tried to escape”
There are names from different fields such as sports who transcend their respective professional fields and, given their projections and careers, become recognizable and familiar faces to the general public. There is a lot going on in Spain with football and the national passion. And one of those players who is present in the collective imagination is Santiago Canizares. The goalkeeper has been one of the most outstanding in the Spanish league for many years, which also increased interest in his personal and family life. One of his sons, Lucas Cañizares.who follows in his father’s footsteps, He recently spoke about the most difficult episode that the family lived: death of little Santi at the age of five.
Lucas, the goalkeeper, is the son of Santi Cañizares and is a winning player in Portuguese football.
Like other footballers of the nineties and two thousand, the native of Madrid, who spent a significant part of his career in Celta, Real Madrid and, especially, Valencia, and became a recognized player best goalkeeper in Europe 2001he is a character whose influence has gone beyond the purely sporting field and has attracted interest from other points of view. His personal aspect was one of them. Over the years, we have known various personal and sentimental milestones of the goalkeeper who father of six children.
One of them is Lucas, partner of the influential personality Carla Asensi Richard and his heir in this field, who He also plays as a goalkeeper for Farense.team of the first category of the Portuguese football league. The twenty-two-year-old Valencian gave an interview to sports publication Relevo, in which, in addition to discussing his professional career, upcoming challenges and comparing his career with that of his father, he gave an interview to sports publication Relevo. he was also honest in the most intimate aspects. Specifically about the difficult chapter: loss of younger brother in March 2018 due to a brain tumor.
Lucas Cañizares’s brutal story about the death of his brother Santi
The little boy was sick for more than a year.Cañizares’ son from his second marriage to Maite Garciawith whom he separated in 2021 (Lucas, like his older sisters, is the result of his relationship with his first wife, Marina Concello). At the time, Lucas was studying at Real Madrid’s youth academy, and lived in very difficult times be lonely”I’ve spent many nights crying because you remembered,” he admits, noting, of course, that the very fact that he had responsibility on his hands, in this case a sporting one, served as “an opportunity, a relief.”
““There’s no secret to surviving a situation like this.”– he explains, admitting that he grew up “forcibly” and that in on his day he tried to “sneak away”but now he thinks about it a lot: “I have it written on my shoes, and for me it’s power to know it’s there. It keeps me on top“he admitted.
Lucas said the following about his brother Santi: He likes to use his example as a strength, as an improvement. and as a way to differentiate what is worth it and what is not. “He He was an innocent, happy and cheerful child. and suddenly this situation comes to you, you don’t know why,” he said, emphasizing that diseases do not understand either people or situations, and that in this case all that remains is to pray and learn in your own way. “Yes, it is so. To be in our hands with all the knowledge that this situation leaves us for the rest of our lives,” he emphasized.It comes and breaks your bubble and brings you back to reality.”concluded.