Enrique “Vallarta” Alfaro is facing the toughest match of his life with a life-threatening cancer treatment, and for this battle he is requesting the help of the football community due to the high cost of the treatment, which has touched the hearts of fans and his former teammates.

The former member of the Toluca Red Devils' most brilliant era, at the end of the 1990s and beginning of the new century, under the management of Enrique "Ojitos" Meza, the midfielder has been diagnosed with a tumor and has requested support from his former teammates and fans of the scarlet team to combat its effects.

This information was revealed through the GoFundMe platform, which details that Alfaro was diagnosed with vocal cord cancer and that the aggressive nature of the tumor is requiring expensive treatments. His family sought support from the football community due to the high cost of medical care.

It is known that the player, nicknamed "Vallarta" after his birthplace of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, underwent emergency surgery in which the tumor was completely removed, but further treatment is required. in the long term to completely eradicate the harmful impact of this disease.

His time at Toluca

Enrique Alfaro became a highly valued player among Toluca fans due to his footballing ability, which led him to be part of the Red Devils between 1994 and 2002. He was a very important player during the glorious era of the Toluca team, which, under the command of Enrique Meza, dominated Liga MX in the late 90s and early 2000s, winning three league titles.

The midfielder played alongside Paraguayan Jose Cardozo, Salvador Carmona, Jose Manuel Abundis, Uruguayan Carlos Maria Morales, Argentine goalkeeper Hernan Cristante, and Chilean Fabian Estay,among other players who allowed Toluca to dominate Mexican football with a spectacular style of play at the beginning of the team's resurgence.

Upon his retirement, Alfardo returned to Puerto Vallarta to help develop new Mexican football stars and later joined the coaching staffs of Coras de Tepic and FC Juarez alongside Argentine Hernan Cristante. Now, with the news of this illness he is facing, he needs the support of those who played alongside him and those who enjoyed his style of football from the stands.