The Argentine coach of the Chilean team, Ricardo Garecasurprised in Buenos Aires when it took place a DNA study to determine if he is the father of a 40-year-old woman, the product of a relationship when he was still single, unlike Fiorella, the out-of-wedlock daughter that Tigre recognized a few years ago.
“I was present, she was not. That’s the only thing I can say, nothing more. “You know that I have commitments there in Santiago de Chile,” he informed the program A la afternoon (América TV) about Mary Delgado’s absence. “I had no advance notice of anything. Imagine that This apparently happened 40 years ago. “I was always a public person,” he added.
According to the former Vélez coach, he never heard from the mother of the woman who found out that her father was Gareca in 2008. “I don’t know anything about this.” because he was single. If this turns out to be positive we will see. They are two adults,” he noted at the Maipú Diagnostic establishment where the genetic test was done.
“I never had problems with anyone. Simply, I would have liked this to take another private course -he confessed-. I am a public person who has a family, who has children, grandchildren. I would have liked this to be handled differently. My family is aware of everything, I don’t hide anything. It appeared 40 years later. They summoned me and I don’t have any problems. “It happens that I live in Chile and today a date was set when I can be there.”
It is not the first time that the Tiger has had to undergo a DNA study. Three years ago, Gareca said that he recognized Fiorella, a daughter out of wedlock. “It’s a particular story, it’s the first time I’ve told it. It was in 2013, when 30 years had already passed.. It was something incredible. It was a barbaric professional moment of mine in every aspect and out of nowhere a daughter appears,” he revealed on the radio program Todo Pasa (Urbana Play).
According to what he said then, Fiorella contacted the eldest son of the former River and Boca player to resolve it privately: “It was a contact between her and my oldest son, Miltonthrough the networks. They hung out, talked, and came to the conclusion that I was probably his father. And it turned out to be that way. I had no knowledge of anything. A whole life passed, me with grandchildren…”
“It was hard, it was a hard stage in my life, complicated, in which I had the understanding of my wife, to whom I am eternally grateful.. He supported me in very complicated, very difficult moments. I needed to go abroad, it was there that I was in Palmeiras. It didn’t go well for me, but I wasn’t good at making decisions. But I needed to work and I went abroad,” said the man who spent only one season in Brazil in 2014 until he ended up in Peru, where he began a very successful cycle in the national team.
“It was a strong story, but today we are family. She is totally incorporated, integrated. It was meeting another adult and integrating them quickly. I had the support of my family, my wife and my children,” he explained.
That was the first and last time he talked about her. You touched on the topic, but I’m not going to talk about it with anyone anymore. I don’t want to make a novel out of this. “I dedicate myself to football, I don’t talk about my private life,” he told Matías Martin. Three years later, a new DNA study put him at the center of the media scene.