Alcides Sagarra recovers after surgery for hip fracture

August 24, 2024

The emblematic Cuban boxing trainer Alcides Sagarra Carón suffered a hip fracture and had to undergo surgery from which he is recovering satisfactorily.

The National Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation (INDER) reported on its Facebook wall that the legendary coach is admitted to the Fructuoso Rodríguez orthopedic hospital in Havana.
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Dozens of admirers and people in general have wished him a speedy recovery.
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Sagarra was hospitalized urgently on Monday, a day after turning 90 years old, when several active and retired boxers came to congratulate him at his home in the Miramar neighborhood, in the Playa municipality.
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A former boxer who lives nearby revealed to the Cuballama portal that they placed a prosthesis on him and he has already been able to sit up.

Prior to this fracture, the acclaimed coach had presented mobility problems and aftereffects of diabetes that he has suffered from for many years.

Another person close to Sagarra revealed that he never emotionally recovered from his unexpected replacement as head coach of the national team in 2001, a measure taken by then INDER president Humberto Rodríguez that was highly questioned. A year earlier, at the Sydney Olympics, the iconic coach led his team to win four gold medals and two bronze medals.

"They told him it was a health issue but that was just an excuse," the source emphasized now.

A native of Santiago de Cuba, Alcides Sagarra is founder of the Cuban School of Boxing and an emblematic figure in world sports.

He directed the national team from its inception in 1964 until 2001, with 27 Olympic titles and another 48 crowns in world championships, according to Jit magazine.

Through his hands passed relevant exponents of that discipline such as Teófilo Stevenson, Félix Savón, Ángel Herrera, Emilio Correa, Ariel Hernández, Héctor Vinent, Maikro Romero, Mario Kindelán, among many others.