Pedro Porro could not say goodbye to his best friend: “I helped his family, now I know he rests in peace”

Behind a successful footballer, there is also a person with his problems. Even worse, because an elite athlete cannot afford to have a bad day, not measure up or be disconnected from training. Pedro Porro is experiencing the best moments of his sporting career as a Tottenham player, but recently he had to face an important personal mourning and she has no choice but to combine it with her stressful day to day life. She revealed it in an interview with The Telegraphin which he narrates in detail how he dealt with the death of his childhood best friend.

Time had separated them, but Pedro Porro remembered in detail what it was like the day they met. “We lived nearby and one day he knocked on my door. She introduced herself, we went to school together and from then on we were inseparable for years.“, he recalls. That call turned two children into flesh and blood. He probably I would see all of Pedro Porro’s progress in the schoolyard and how it was already seen that he would go far in the world of football.

Recently, Pedro Porro received the worst news. “I recently found out that he was sick. He had a tumor in his kidney that spread to his head and unfortunately everything happened very quickly. I didn’t have time to say goodbye to him“, he says in his extensive interview in The Telegraph. News that left him in a state of shock. His inseparable childhood companion had a fatal illness, with hardly any hope of survival. And he couldn’t do anything to help him.

In a matter of time, his great friend passed away, causing immense pain in Pedro Porro. But he could still do something to honor his memory. Although he, even having grown up in the same conditions, has ended up earning millions and representing an elite European soccer team, his partner led a normal life, with a job and without a sufficient economic situation to afford the luxuries that every footballer can get used to.

For this reason, his friend dealt with saying goodbye to his family and with financial problems that even affect the most basic aspects of saying goodbye to a loved one. Pedro Porro tells it: “I didn’t have time to say goodbye to him. However, I discovered that his family, who had returned to Morocco, I couldn’t afford the repatriation costs and I offered to help them with whatever was necessary. Now I know he rests in peace with his family.“.

Pedro Porro’s help has allowed his family to say goodbye to a young man who could not overcome a severe illness. It all started with a ring on a doorbell and a journey with him for years. Time passes, but the Spanish international remembers with pride the childhood they lived and he has not hesitated to help his loved ones to repatriate his body to Morocco.