Sad lives IV Sonia Martínez, a life between television success and the hell of drugs and AIDS
Sad lives III Joselito or the theft of a childhood in exchange for a voice
Sad lives II Gracita Morales: from the cinema to the psychiatric hospital and the scam of the nuns
Sad lives I Poli Díaz, KO for drugs and the ladies with whom he did not want to prostitute
He was
hungry
.
He was
abused
at the orphanage.
He fell into
drugs
.
He suffered three overdoses.
He went into a
coma
twice.
He has suffered two
heart attacks
.
He has a
necrosis
in the heart and a handicap of 30%.
He has survived three
plane
crashes.
He jumped off a fourth floor and out of a moving car, but nothing happened to him.
He has been admitted to
psychiatric hospitals
.
He has suffered psychotic breakouts .... And he became an idol.
Julio Alberto Moreno's life is like a soap opera.
When their parents ran out of love, their children were taken to different foster homes.
Something strange considering that the father owned several bars and restaurants.
Born in
Candás
(Asturias) in 1958, our protagonist was almost
seven years old and was locked up
in the Cristo de las Cadenas for another six, not knowing anything about anyone and wondering bitterly
why Mom and Dad didn't love him.
Shortly after he was
sexually abused by
a monitor
at a summer camp, the Asturias Juvenile Court ruled that he could go live with his father.
At the age of 13, he was in front of a stranger,
but he tried to make the relationship flow as if nothing had happened. However, Julio Alberto
desperately
needed to
search for his mother.
He killed his free time by practicing various sports such as canoeing, handball and cycling and, from time to time, he
played soccer on the beach with his father.
But he didn't like it. He didn't see what the charm of kicking a ball was. What ironies in life!
Tired of that life, he steeled himself to go find his mother. He broke one of his father's safes and
with 900 pesetas and a small backpack
he went to Madrid to look for it. One of his uncles had helped him. He discovered that he lived
in a pension subsidized by Caritas
for battered women, they melted into an eternal embrace while the tears drowned them. "Where are my brothers?" He asked; but she didn't know.
He went out looking for them and found them.
Finally together!
They had almost nothing to eat,
except cookies and milk. Julio Alberto wanted to be an architect and to pay for it he worked as an insurance agent,
walked dogs,
he unloaded trucks or as buttons at the Banco Vitalicio, which, without knowing it yet, was owned by the family of
his future wife, Carmen Escámez,
niece of the banker Alfonso Escámez.
There he earned 8,000 pesetas.
On one of those mornings when he was reading the newspaper, he read that Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid were looking for new players, so he did not hesitate to send them a letter.
The former soccer player, in an image from 2016.SANTI COGOLLUDO
At the age of 17, he began playing as a forward for Atlético
Madrileño and later as a full-back, until Vicente Calderón and Luis Aragonés, among others, saw his potential to move up to the first team, Atlético de Madrid. The young man did not have boots, but he did have
holes in his shoes.
Of the 2,000 pesetas her mother had saved 1,400 was spent on a Adidas in this situation reminiscent former player himself at the Eighth Congress National Geographic Brilliant Minds 2018:
" 'My son, I believe in you.'
What things have the mothers! And we didn't have enough to eat (...) I was so hungry that I scored goals every weekend ". In 1975 he signed
a contract for 200,000 pesetas
and as salary, 68,500.
When her mother saw such a wad of bills, she immediately told her to return what she had stolen.
In that talk, Julio Alberto confessed that "for the first time in my life I went to the supermarket, I went down to the store and
bought him pajamas, a bed, some slippers, we filled the fridge ... It
was the first time I could see myself. So pretty mother in the robe and pajamas. "
In 1980 he married Carmen and four years later his daughter Carola was born.
They were happy times because after going through Atleti and Recreativo de Huelva, he
signed for Barça
(1982-1991) at the same time as
Maradona
.
He savored the honeys of success on the pitch by winning La Liga, the Copa del Rey, the Spanish Super Cup ..., but the European Cup resisted him.
A well that now helps to get out
Julio Alberto
started using drugs.
In one day he ingested
25 grams of cocaine.
He divorced, had another girlfriend for four years and then remarried Patricia Saurí, mother of his daughter Samantha.
But his life was going downhill.
His temperament bolted, had a
traumatic divorce,
smashed hotel rooms, accused him of theft,
his business burned
motorcycle, failed with his club in Sitges, an inspection of
Hacienda
forced to pay hit 70 million pesetas. ..
After his retirement from football in 1991 he went down to hell.
He was left without friends, without family and lived on the streets.
In 1995 he published
My truth
, whose benefits were for Proyecto Hombre, who did such a good job for him and for many others.
All that is already past water, although sometimes they continue to label him as "the druggist."
"People always judged.
Everyone questions you, they look at you.
If you have the flu and you're late, they think you're getting high again. If one day you don't shave, the same. Do you know something I can't stand? When someone lets go of me: 'And how are you doing?' I always answer the same thing: 'And how is your fucking mother?
Because you used to do drugs with me, don't you remember anymore?
In recent years, he has
given talks, helps drug addicts,
reaches out to those in need, getting on one occasion 50,000 euros to distribute among the homeless and this year he is
in the sports management of La Piñolesa.
With a sense of humor he comments that "the Panama Papers have come out. When the drugs come out it will be the host."
Second chances exist.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
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