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MANILA, Philippines – University of the Philippines men’s football player and scholar Rogie Maglinas passed away after a bout with rhabdomyosarcoma, or cancer of the skeletal muscles, on Tuesday, February 2. He was 19.
The news was announced on the official Twitter account of the UP men’s football team and confirmed to ABS-CBN Sports by the team’s coach, Anto Gonzales.
Fellow UPMFT member and brother Rogie Maglinas is now in peace, free from pain. Please pray for the eternal repose of Rogie’s soul.
— UPMFT (@upmensfootball) February 2, 2016
The ABS-CBN News report said Maglinas died of “complications due to TB meningitis” while confined at the Intensive Care Unit of the Philippine General Hospital.
The Uson, Masbate native was about to enter his third season with the UP football team when he was diagnosed with cancer, forcing an end to what was a budding collegiate career.
Maglinas was a Sports Science major.
In an interview with Rappler last November, Maglinas said that his family had no history of cancer. The illness brought massive pain to the football player’s legs, lumbar area, and head.
But though he was in pain then, Maglinas said he was thinking positive, and that God had a plan for him. – Rappler.com
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