He lost his two children in two tragic events that occurred 7 years apart.
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Giovanni and Herman Córdoba They were brothers and were two great Colombian players who, due to things of fate, died in tragic circumstances when they were part of the ranks of the Deportivo Cali and Atlético Huilarespectively, at the beginning of the new century.
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Giovanni He died in October 2002 at a clinic in the Valle del Cauca capital days after lightning impact him on a ‘sugar’ team at the Pance headquarters. In the unexpected climatological event, Herman ‘Carepa¿ Gaviria also died.
For its part, Herman He died in 2009, seven years after his brother Giovanni, in a traffic accident on a road in the capital of Neiva. The strong clash of a car in which they mobilized against a Chiva claimed the life of the then star of Atlético Huila and also the footballer Mario Beltrán And her friend María Elena Cruz. Meanwhile, Juan Camilo Restrepo He survived the tragedy thanks to the fact that a man passing through the road at that time managed to get him out of the vehicle before he caught fire.
On these two tragic events that marked the history of Colombian football, the program ‘Final file’directed by the journalist Diva Jessurum, issued a report last weekend, a report in which new details of the car accident were known that claimed the life of Herman Córdoba.
Luz Elena Renteríathe mother of the late Vallecaucan football brothers, gives her painful testimony of the tragedy she enlutted to her family.
“That was a horrible disaster,” He repeated twice when he remembered that hard episode of his life as a mother.
«In December all these streets were filled. Since they died everything was alone », The woman said referring to the joy that her two children caused in the neighborhood where they resided in the municipality of Palmira, Valle del Cauca.
«My son was the one who gave us everything. Giovanni was always very aware. Giovanni was a dad for Herman, loved him very much, he was the spoiled of the house, ”he recalled.
«What can one do. I don’t have to claim or say anything. They were things of destiny. He needed them, he has them well and played up there, making goals to the Lord », The mother of the brothers Giovanni and Herman Córdoba concluded, who will always be in the memory of Colombian football fans.
Here, the chapter in question of ‘final file’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vocffcltw4
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