We celebrate the Chilean miners’ rescue! Among these remarkable men was Franklin Lobos, former professional footballer and member of the 1984 Chilean Olympic team. After 69 days entombed 700 meters underground, Franklin emerged from the ‘Phoenix’ capsule to embrace his family and juggle a football.
Ivan Zamorano, the former Real Madrid and Inter striker who played with Lobos in the 1980s, recently said: “I think that down there, trapped, he has tapped into that energy you saw when he played; an emotional man who threw the whole team behind the game. I am sure he is very important to keeping them alive down there.”
Read a profile of Lobos in The Guardian here.
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I a way, the spirit of fighting on, even when you are down, is best captured and expressed in football, and of course the knowledge that anything can happen any time, and the general capacity to handle the tragic, is what football is all about, and I guess, what life is all about too.