By Edgardo Avelar
Sep 21, 2024, 00:31 AM EDT
Andre Marin He received his final farewell this Friday from family, friends and journalists, where tributes were paid to him after he died last Monday, September 16, from a serious illness that had greatly deteriorated his health in recent years. and which ended up extinguishing its existence.
The people closest to the journalist and sports announcer who started and had an outstanding career at Imevisión, TV Azteca, Fox Sports and Televisa, did not want to miss the opportunity to recognize his influence in the media where he demonstrated his ability throughout more than two decades of uninterrupted work.
The religious ceremony was held inIn the Parish of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus in the area of Lomas de Chapultepecin the northwest of Mexico City, where members of his closest circle, such as friends who were close to him, as well as colleagues from TUDN, Fox Sports, and ESPN, gathered at the religious temple to pray for his eternal rest.
Characters like Alex Blanco, Daniel Brailovsky, Alex Aguinaga and Ruben Rodriguez They met to dedicate a few final messages to their former teammate, friend and partner in many reporting adventures within Mexican and international soccer.
They also gave themselves He mentions colleagues from TUDN and Televisa such as David Faitelson, Francisco Javier González, Denise Maerker and Majo González, who shared microphones on the analysis and controversy program “Tercer Grado” on the Televisa company.
In the liturgical event ESPN commentator José Ramón Fernández was not present. who was a very influential character in Marín’s career and practically his mentor in the media, with a style that always generated competition at that time with the company Televisa.
As you may recall, lAndré Marín’s health problems They began in December 2019, when he contracted the Clostridium difficile bacteria that brought him almost to the brink of death, when a diverticulum burst due to stress, keeping him intubated for 50 days in 2022.
His physical strength helped him recover, but in the end, complications from the disease They undermined his physical endurance, to the point that in 2024 he underwent a double lung transplant that was complicated after contracting pneumonia that led to an infection that ultimately took his life.
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