Argentine football today mourns the loss of one of its historical icons. The ' Trinche' Carlovich has died at the age of 74 after failing to overcome a stroke suffered after being robbed.

"He was a young kid. 'El Trinche' was a tall man, he should be almost 1.90. He hit a pineapple, it was not with a stick. With the blow he fell half fainted and hit the ground, the blow left him ' Knockout '. When I arrived he was wide-eyed but unconscious, " Central Córdoba player Juan Carlos' Tate' Lescano, one of the first to aid Carlovich , told the Infobae website on Thursday .

"When I got to the place I recognized it was him, I got out of the car and started calling him: 'Trinche', 'Trinche'. But he was unconscious all the time until they took him to the hospital," he explained.

Carlovich was an emblem of Santa Fe football despite having played most of his career in lower categories and Diego Maradona recently gave him a shirt with the phrase: " Trinche, you were better than me ." EFE

"My dad had a new bicycle , but that is no reason to assault him, since four old bicycles had also been stolen from him before. Now he is unconscious in intensive care and in an induced coma, according to what the doctors told us. He was already inside when we arrived" her son Bruno Carlovich had reported to channel 5RTV yesterday afternoon.

The life of the 'Trinche', the boy who barely played a couple of games in the First Division, has given rise to films, books, documentaries and plays, among these pieces, an excellent documentary from the ' Robinson Report ' program.

When Maradona joined Newell's in 1993 he said: "I thought he was the best, but since I arrived in Rosario I heard wonders from a certain Carlovich, so I don't know anymore ."

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