There are champions who celebrate with trophies and there are champions who break down before an altar.
Alberto García Aspe and Antonio “Turco” Mohamed never played together, but they share an invisible thread, one that needs neither jersey nor rules: faith baptized in crisis and grateful in glory.
Aspe: The Midfielder Who Won Titles and Gave His Soul
García Aspe was disciplined, methodical, almost impervious to sentimentality. He went to Mass, yes, but without going overboard. Until life knocked him down.
His conversion wasn’t a matter of fashion or habit, but rather came when death brushed against his family.
“The conversion, really, with the Virgin, was when my second daughter, Jimena, was born, and then a difficult event occurred,” he recounts in an exclusive interview with Grupo Multimedios.
He was in Valle de Bravo preparing for the playoffs when he received the devastating news: his wife, Rosy Peláez, was in critical condition. A doctor spoke to him with the coldness of someone operating between life and death: “Stay put, the situation is extremely serious.”
A man accustomed to making decisions on the field found himself powerless off it. That night was his spiritual desert: “It was a terrible night… so many things happened.”
At five in the morning, friends and family arrived to pray the rosary. Aspe confessed his human, imperfect reaction: “I kept thinking, how reckless… what is she doing?” Just as they finished praying the rosary, Capi had the opportunity to see his wife. Coincidence or a miracle?
