Arrived in 2016 at Olympique Lyonnais from River Plate, Emanuel Mammana (25) did not stay long with the Rhone club and had been transferred, only a year later, with Zenit Saint-Petersburg, against 16 million euros. Now released by the Russian club and on the departure to River Plate, the Argentinian central defender spoke to Argentinian radio The Red and spoke about his suicide attempt when he was young, due to family issues. His mother having passed away when he was six, then at the age of fifteen his father passed away.
“Anyone who has lost their parents knows how difficult it is. I wanted to kill myself, I was about to do something crazy. I went to the station and wanted to throw myself under a train. I was about to throw myself into the void. Someone grabbed me and pushed me against the wall. I would never know who this person is, but I thank them from the bottom of my heart ”, he confessed.