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Team Socceroo manager, Wool Reyes, dies at 34

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Team Socceroo FC manager, Wool Reyes, dies at age 34 due to brain aneurysm

FULL HEART. Team Socceroo manager, Wool Reyes, dies at age 34. Photo from Design by Jaycee Facebook page

MANILA, Philippines – Philippine football has lost one of its most passionate campaigners as Team Socceroo manager, Wool Reyes (34), passed away on Monday night, March 18, due to cardiac arrest after a bout with brain aneurysm.

Wool was rushed to the hospital by his younger brother Mike Reyes, on March 12, Tuesday, after finding him on the pavement in one of the establishments in Taguig City having no pulse, no breathing and no heartbeat.

Medical findings revealed that he suffered from cardiac arrest aside from having bleeding in the brain although doctors, upon examining him the day he was brought to the hospital, were not able to point out the main reason of his situation.

“Surgeons could not give treatment because they could not find aneurysm because of the blood inside the brain, we now wait for 1-2 weeks…then the surgeons can give him his treatment,” Wool’s older sister, Cotton Reyes, said in a journal entry in a site dedicated to him.

Wool then suffered his 3rd cardiac arrest on Friday, March 15, before showing consecutive complications in his kidney and lungs prior to his eventual death on Monday night.

Full heart

A veteran footballer and a passionate believer of the beautiful game, Wool Reyes was the manager of second division leader, Team Socceroo FC, where both his younger brothers, Mike and Paulus, are currently playing.

Born as Jose Gaudencio Reyes, Wool is the 4th of 9 children, and had taken the role of the head of the family at the young age of 23 after his father died.

Wool showed early signs of football promise at the tender age of 7, joining football camps within and outside the country. Some of the camps and tournaments he attended abroad included the Helsinki Cup and Gothia Cup in Europe as well as camps in Sweden, Denmark and Finland.

He is an alumnus of the PAREF Southridge School and the University of Asia and the Pacific’s (UA&P) Industrial Economics Program where he became an integral part of the school’s soccer and futsal program.

Wool firmly believed in the development of Philippine football through supporting the youth – grassroots level. Currently, Team Socceroo Academy hosts weekend football camps for kids of all ages. Due to this advocacy, he was also able strike a deal with the world-famous FC Barcelona Escola to set up a football camp here in the Philippines in April.

Condolences

Family, friends and colleague in the football community all shared their sentiments and condolences on the passing of Wool.

UFL President Santi Araneta, along with several others from the football world, expressed the sadness of the passing of such a great man and pillar of Philippine football.

Friends from his alma mater, UA&P, also expressed their condolences:

Wool will surely be missed not just by the football community but also by his friends and family, whom he all passionately loved with ‘clear eyes and full hearts’. Rest in peace, brother. – Rappler.com

 

 

 

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