Two weeks ago, good news arrived for the world of football: Brian Fernandez He had found a club and would play in Coquimbo, Chile. However, a few days after signing the contract, the player did not appear in training again, which caused great concern in his new club. But this Monday afternoon there was news from former Admiral Brown: “I need to be close to my family,” he said in a video in which he announced that he would not cross the Cordillera again.
“I wanted to inform you on this day that I will surely stay in Argentina. It’s kind of crazy, but the reality is that What I need most today is to be close to my family.“, began the 30-year-old striker.
Additionally, Brian added that “I’m very happy to be able to say it because I honestly didn’t say it before.but today I can stand up and communicate it: I have to take a step aside to be able to be good with myself and continue growing in my personal life.”
Some time ago, after disappearing and worrying everyone around him, Brian told what he was suffering: “When I don’t answer messages or don’t appear on social media, my family gets scared,” he says, which hides a long history behind of addiction problems that became a nightmare for his family. Today they are the ones who try to redirect and protect them. He also finds words of affection in the footballers, those friends he made throughout his career.
That day, Brian talked about his addictions and said that he was treating his problem with Maradona’s psychologist. Hence the Ten was close to him and worried about him. “The psychologist helped me a lot,” Brian said. And soccer lovers wish he could focus 100% on playing ball, which he does so well.
Fernández thanked those who gave him a new opportunity in the midst of his struggle: “To my colleagues and the president for having hired me and trusting me. In these 10 days they gave me everything, so I thank you all very much and that Have a good year.”
The man born in Santa Fe came to train for a few days with the team thinking about 2025 but, as he clarified in his statement, he needed to return to the country just 14 days after being presented.
Brian’s fight
Since he appeared in Defensa y Justicia, dazzling in the team led by Diego Cocca that was promoted to Primera, going through the positive doping in Racing in 2016 that left him out of the fields for a year and a half, the episode in which he stoned a collective in October 2022 and had to be hospitalized for an “allergic outbreak due to the consumption of narcotics”, until reaching the stage in Colón de Santa Fé, which terminated his contract for missing several training sessions, Brian Fernández’s frenetic career was marked by conflicts.
In 2016, Brian tested positive for cocaine in a Racing – River team and, from that moment on, he began a difficult fight against addictions that forced him to take several breaks in his football career and go through other complex situations in clubs. where he has been.
In November of last year, after being left without a club after his time at Atlético Morelia, the forward reappeared, leaving a message of peace for those who were scared when he left the Mexican club with a worrying message. “Defeated, without desire,” he had posted on his networks. This Wednesday he spoke with Team F, an ESPN program, and told how he is currently: “I haven’t smiled in a long time, but really smiling is not for a photo.”
“I knew darkness and I am always afraid of falling again,” he told the newspaper Olé a few months ago where he confessed that he found refuge in his family, in the Church and in the clubs he has been in. And in all this time, Fernández became a globetrotter because he passed through Sarmiento de Junín, Metz (France), Unión La Calera (Chile), Necaxa (Mexico) and Portland Timbers (United States), plus two cycles in Colón , another couple in Ferro and a spell at Deportivo Madryn before traveling abroad again to join Morelia in Mexico.
After his time at Almirante Brown, Brian seemed to be back in competition with his arrival in Chile. However, this Monday he decided to stay in Argentina to take care of his health.