The magic is over. Fabian O'Neill died at 12.55 today, December 25 in Montevideo, in the Medica Uruguaya clinic where he had been hospitalized for the last few hours. He was only 49 years old.
The news of the desperate conditions of the former rossoblù midfielder, at Cagliari between 1995 and 2000 (then moved to Juve) was given by the journalist Alberto Kesman: "It's news we would never want to hear", he wrote on Twitter on Saturday, "But right now a friend of his informs me that Fabian O'Neill is in intensive care at Medica Uruguaya and the doctors are trying to save his life. O'Neill has always been too good to others and mean to himself. God bless him." help you survive".
The reference is obvious to the problem that The Magician has always had with alcohol: a vice he already had when he was playing, which got worse after the end of his career. He had been operated on but, despite the prohibitions of the doctors, he had continued to drink excessively. And that finally killed him.
Genius and recklessness, O'Neill, with Cagliari had played four seasons in Serie A and one in B, totaling 120 appearances and 12 goals.
Even Cagliari football in mourning, a statement from the company arrives: "Fabian, one of us forever".
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