Spaniard Juan Carlos Unzue, former assistant coach of Barcelona Luis Enrique, has announced his retirement from coaching, after suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
And the former goalkeeper of Barcelona, the former coach of Celta Vigo and Girona, revealed - during a press conference held at the “Camp Nou” stadium a while ago - that he had discovered that he had this disease, which has no cure so far.
This disease is a type of motor neurone disease, which is rapidly spreading and leads to paralysis and death.
The disease causes atrophy of the nervous system following atrophy of the motor nerves and the nerve cells in the central nervous system that control voluntary muscle movement.
And he continued, "I will not coach any team from now, I signed with a modest but very committed team (in reference to the fatal disease), we are about four thousand people in this team, every day we lose three colleagues and add four, and in this team there are people who really helped me." .
Onzue's press conference was attended by Barcelona Chairman Josep Maria Bartomeu, former team captain Carles Puyol and Serge Busquets, as well as Jordi Alba, Sergio Roberto and Gerard Pique.