"He was not my cousin, he was my brother. We grew up in the same house."
Azerbaijan national team member Mahir Emreli spoke about his cousin Sabit Agayev, whose body was found on November 1.
"I found out that night. It's terrible news for me. We lived in the same house with him. Whenever I went somewhere, I introduced him to friends as my brother. Because we were really brothers. This news shocked me a lot. I learned about such an event that night and couldn't sleep until morning. When I was playing for Konyaspor, he was with me and we lived in the same house.
The reason why I dyed my hair blonde for a while was Sabit. He was a fan of Galatasaray football player Mauro Icardi. That's why he asked me to dye his hair blonde. I did it. Sabit himself was also a football player. He played for Simurq team, played a lot of games in the reserve team. But later, because the Zaqatala club broke up, he quit football. He had a job, everything was fine. I don't even know why he committed suicide. Because he was a very funny, cheerful person. Even when he wrote a message, he wrote it so cheerfully that you would think there is no happier person than him. What happened, what happened... He was also married, he had a 4-5 month old baby. But he made us all miserable and left. I can't come to my senses," he said in a statement to Qafqazinfo.
Mahir Emreli also clarified the rumors circulating about his deceased cousin:
"I also drove his wedding car. If he had any problems, he would tell me. I don't know why this happened? Everyone writes that he had debts, these are empty talks. No one can come out and say that he has debts. It had been 2-3 weeks since he moved into a rented house. But everyone says that he lived in a rented house, these are all rumors. It is such a matter that only his family knows. We cannot interfere."