If a while ago we showed you the defense of the values of the sport by the direction of a school, by giving victory to the opposing team by the insults of its players, we want to give a twist to the subject explaining the beautiful gesture of a professional footballer, who he stayed to sleep with a sick child in the hospital.
Four Sunderland players went to see him
His name is Bradley Lowey, is 5 years old, and has spent most of his life fighting cancer. He was diagnosed with a neuroblastoma in 2013, and after two years of treatment, he was discharged in 2015. A year later, in 2016, he suffered a relapse and since then he is again struggling to get ahead, despite the prognosis It is not very encouraging.
As we read in El Periódico, a few days ago, four Sunderland players, his favorite team, went to see him to support him: Jermain Defoe, John O'Shea, Sebastian Larsson and Vito Mannone.
The four were with the child talking, playing and joking; they had a good time together, until at the time of leaving, Bradley told Defoe I didn't want him to leave, to stay with him. Without thinking twice, the player said yes, that he stayed, so he fired his teammates and he lay on the bed next to Bradley, whom he had hugged until he fell asleep, to end up spending the night with him.
Sunderland had already supported Bradley on other occasions
It was not the first time the Sunderland players were with him, and last September he was the mascot of the team against Everton, who donated 236 thousand euros to help in the treatment, and in December he received the best goal award of the month.
The striker, who is his idol, had already made a tweet talking about the little one, whom he already considers a small (by size) great friend.
The values of the sport
So although Jermain Defoe He was not competing in making the decision to stay with him, he was demonstrating what the values of the sport are, which in reality do not depart too much from those that anyone should have in his personal life: respect, support, friendship, teamwork , justice, social responsibility, etc.
This is what we have to teach our children, or this is what they should learn in sports and in life.
