The day Maradona unknowingly saved Pedro Monzón’s life – Game Time

“At a very bad time, I wanted to kill myself, I was a coward, with a gun in my hand, I said, ‘I’m going to call Diego. If he doesn’t come, I’ll take my life. “, remembers Monzón in the last hours after his death. of the “Ten”.

And he underlined: “At the time he was giving me a hug, but I never dared to tell him the promise because I held the pineapples. He loved me very much, I have the best memories.”

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“I’m not going to say goodbye because I have it in my heart my whole life,” he said in statements to the press.

In 2017, the former Independiente defender and the Argentina national team said in a TV interview that shortly after quitting football and as a result of drug use and depression, he experienced this moment.

“I called him and told him that I felt bad, that I wanted to talk and he told me not to worry,” Monzón told the Arroban (FW TV) show at the time. .

And he added, “I thought he wasn’t going to come, but after a while he appeared.”

He also referred to an action this time from the star: “When he arrived, I told him to sit on a chair, the only one I had, and he said ‘No, if you are on the floor. , I will sit down with you on the floor.

“In this interview, I told her that my daughter was born in Tucumán and that I didn’t know her, I didn’t even need to go see her. Well, thanks to him, I went to see my daughter, I had everything to eat, ”he summed up one of the many benefits of Maradona.