The tennis player has been in a wheelchair since 2015 due to a snowboarding accident
The athlete and his wife, Raquel Rostro, have formed a very happy family with their two children.
Cisco Garcia: “My four-year-old son asks me when I’m going to walk again”
He December 28, 2015 the life of a lawyer Cisco Garcia changed radically. As a result of a accident while practicing snowboard, The sport that he was passionate about at that time was suffering a irreparable damage to the spinal cordAfter several days in a hospital in Austria, specialists confirmed that he had lost mobility from the waist down. A new, and difficult, stage in the life of this young man from Cordoba was beginning.
When the accident took place Cisco was alone I was 33 years old and had a perfect life: “I was a lawyer, I was doing well, I had several offices in Córdoba and Málaga, I had my friends and my girlfriend…”. And this lawyer from Cordoba had a full life that he shared with Raquel, the girl I had been with for just a year and a means of relationship.
Many people thought that the girl, given the short time they had been together, would decide to break up with him, but nothing could be further from the truth. Cisco’s accident, although it brought with it some very hard times, also served to make the then lawyer realize what was truly important in life:
“I thought Being with someone in a wheelchair was a punishmentwe have always been told in the DGT advertisements that being in a wheelchair is the worst thing that can happen to you, but I discovered after a short time that I could continue living my life normally, I did not give up and I started to overcome myself“.
Since then, Cisco García has been runner-up in the world wheelchair tennis championship and has obtained a bronze medal at the 2023 Para-European Games in this same category. The Cordovan has published a book, ‘Unbreakable’and has done a dissemination work on his social networks around the disability that led him to sneak into the top 100 list influencers of the year 2020.
Raquel sends an emotional message to Cisco
Without a doubt, one of Cisco’s greatest supporters in its daily struggle after the accident has been Raquelwho was his girlfriend at the time and is now his wife and mother of his two children. Far from what many thought, Raquel not only did not leave him in the lurch, but she joined him even more in a fight worthy of recognition. The young woman has taken advantage of her boyfriend’s visit to ‘Life without filters’ to send him a message of love.
Source: www.telecinco.es
