Galician football mourns the death of Luisito’s mother

It was the mother of Galician football. The woman who best portrayed the role of a parent. Brave as well as suffering. generous. Always with the ball on his head. As well as their children and their grandchildren. Especially Luisito Míguez, current coach of Arousa and previously coach of countless teams across Galicia, mainly in the provinces of A Coruña and Pontevedra.

Matilde Iglesias Vence passed away this Sunday at the age of 94. Something more than a woman goes with her. The mother who supported the daily life of Teo’s trainer leaves. Because, apart from his wife and children, Matilde was the reason for Luisito’s day after day. It’s as if after more than five decades the umbilical cord is still intact.

Although she was not a big fan of football, she suffered like few others every time she saw her son sitting on the bench. This is how he explained it in a report published by La Voz de Galicia on the occasion of Mother’s Day 2019: «I don’t care about football or min. But when playing or team I work or follow. It makes me nervous. I turn on the TV, watch a bit, get angry, get up, go to turn around with my walker and a few meters away, come back because I want to see if something happened». That’s exactly how spontaneous the woman was that marked Luisito’s professional career.

Because the Galician coach has always conditioned his signature for the club that his mother takes care of. He even had proposals from second division players, but he did not accept them because he could not live without visiting every day the woman who gave him life and for whom he later gave his life for years.

The body of Matilda Iglesias remains in the Calo funeral home, from where he will go to the parish church of San Juan de Calo this Monday at four in the afternoon. (Teo), where the burial of the present body will be held, and then it will be buried in the family pantheon of the cemetery of the mentioned parish.