This December 30 marks 20 years since one of the great tragedies he experienced Argentina. The Cro-Magnon Massacrewhen the fire at the recital Strays It left a balance of 194 fatalities. Among the stories of survivors are players and former soccer players, who two decades after the event, remembered that tragic night and how they were able to get out.
«I decided, by instinct, to go to the same entrance. It had been fairly close to there. Luckily I headed to that place. Even though those doors weren’t open either. They opened inwards. A crowding began to form and it was more difficult to open the door inside. “I was left against my back, unable to move.”he recalled on the one hand Agustina Donatoplayer of All Boyswho was 15 years old at the time, in dialogue with TyC Sports.
«We couldn’t go out. I saw the smoke coming down. I couldn’t breathe anymore, I fell… I lost consciousness. I don’t know how long it was, but it must have been very short. When I regain consciousness, I am still standing and a little further forward and someone is holding me. A boy had me pinned against a column. I guess I didn’t fall because of that. When I looked at him, he told me ‘stay calm, we’re leaving’. We stayed there. To this day, I don’t know who that guy was. “I never saw him again, I don’t remember him either.”Donato said.
«When the show started, everyone started jumping over the fences. I did 20 meters, I didn’t even get to the middle of the track. I just saw the flash and at the touch the power went out. Everything was dark. It was remembering where you were and the route, but with the shouting it was difficult. Likewise, I didn’t even have time to think. People started pushing me back and I left after 15 seconds. “People were falling very suddenly.”he said in turn Hernan Luzziwho at that time was a Lamadrid player and had gone to the recital like his teammate, Damian De Luca.
«In two seconds, I raised my head twice and there, yes, fire had already been seen. I was lucky, I don’t know what to call it, that it caught me as if I were a current in the middle of the sea, that I went straight to the exit.De Luca told TyC Sports. «It was remembered for me having to look for the kids on the sidewalk, where they were putting all those who couldn’t last. Having to search there, with the desperation that you might find someone… It’s impossible to get that out of your head.”.
«Before the recital, flares and candles were thrown and Omar Chabán said that we should stop doing that because we were all going to die, that the same thing that happened in the shopping center in Paraguay was going to happen. I didn’t really give it any importance. “I just wanted to see Callejeros”he said in turn Cristian Pereyraphysical trainer of the Arsenal futsal team, to Olé.
«I see that spark but the roof completely catches fire. There I was gripped by desperation of not knowing what to do. While there the light goes out and I start swallowing a lot of smoke and I pass out. They were seconds. To this day I don’t know how I got out. I appeared on the way back, in a bus dock with buckets of cold water.he recalled.