Jose Fernandez's Mom Speaks

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Maritza Gómez, the mother of the late Cuban Marlins player José Fernández, offered her first interview after the death of her son. The Cuban was interviewed by the presenter Gloria Ordaz of Noticias 23, the Univisión branch in Miami, and tells how she is carrying out her duel today. "I remember him all the time, I see him all the time, I talk to him all the time, he talks to me all the time," he said. "I feel a void that no one is going to fill."

Her consolation has been the birth of her granddaughter. "The girl has come into our lives, she has come as a blessing, but nothing will erase [the death of my son]," he added. "Right now the baby arrived is very difficult because it is a mixture of pain, of feeling, horrible."

María Arias, who was the girlfriend of the Marlins player, gave birth to her daughter Penélope a few days ago and Gómez was in labor. “That moment that I was proud to participate in the delivery of Maria, that the baby arrived, was very difficult. First supporting her and then much crying, he recalled.

Grandma was excited to have the baby in her arms. “The first thing I did was look at her little toes. When I saw them I said 'This girl is equal to my son' and it gave me a lot of pain, a lot of feeling to think that what she wanted most was to have her baby and she couldn't enjoy that moment,”. she said.

A South Florida court has determined that the player's estate will be administered by Gómez y Arias. Her son dreamed of being a good father, assured his mother. “He said to me, 'Mommy, I'm going to be the best dad in the world. I'm not going to be like my dad who left me since I was little, '”she adds. Fernández, who died at age 24, was raised by his stepfather Ramón Jiménez. “We told each other everything. He would say to me: 'Mommy, I love you,'”recalls his mom. "Unfortunately life has played me wrong."