Nahuel Gallotta
02/10/2021 19:12
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 02/10/2021 19:24
All moms like Marisol should live what they are experiencing today: her son, Kevin Tournour, defender of Defensores de Pronunciamiento, of the Argentine Tournament A, is hours away from entering the Banfield court to face River.
She says that when she turns on the TV and watches it, she will remember many things.
Some of those things are the first day he took him to soccer, when he was 4 years old.
Or the afternoon that accompanied him to try Independiente.
Or the money he gave her from her salary as a municipal employee so that she could buy the Nike boots that she will wear tonight.
"A pity not to be able to go and encourage him," says Marisol in a lamenting tone.
But it passes quickly.
Alejandro is Marisol's partner, and Kevin's employer, who runs a kiosk.
“
The result does not matter.
They are winners since when they came from here
.
A pity that being a town we could all have gone to a stadium like that and be with the corresponding social distance, "he says.
Yesterday first thing in the morning the team got on the bus and was accompanied to the route by fans, family members, managers and even firefighters.
Pronouncement is a town of 2500 inhabitants
.
Soccerically speaking, today is the most important day in its history.
And it shows: there are T-shirts on the fronts of the premises, flags on the facades of the houses and generations of grandparents, children and grandchildren dressed in blue and red, waiting for the game.
Depro's stadium, empty.
Photo Maxi Failla
Tobías is Kevin's brother.
He was in the squad when a little over a year ago the fixture, or fate, or what, wanted Pronunciamiento to play River as a rival.
It was going to play in Salta and the fans and their families had everything ready to travel.
There were five buses, some vans and a couple of ready-made cars.
"
Three-quarters of the town was going to travel,
" calculates Luis Sandoval, former mayor of the town and former president of the club.
But the pandemic postponed the meeting.
T
Obias football left three months ago
.
He preferred to dedicate himself fully to masonry,
not knowing that the game of his dreams would be rescheduled so quickly
.
He misses it.
Although he has enough consolation: “As long as my brother enjoys it, it is enough for me.
All my life I will remember the joy of the day we found out that River had touched us.
Goosebumps…".
Priscila, Alejandro's wife who plays tonight with River, with her daughter and mother-in-law Photo: Maxi Failla
On the other side of the road
, after passing Alejandro's parked Renault 6,
the Larrozas live
.
Graciela and Roberto are the parents of Lucas, another player on the team.
His eyes speak for themselves.
A mixture of pride, happiness, and all that together that parents feel for a child who fulfills a dream.
Roberto is excited to remember the day of the Argentina Cup fixture
.
His father, that is Lucas's grandfather, who is no longer here, had told him that he was going to play with River or with Boca.
And that day, he went home, turned on the TV, and when River's envelope came out, his heart beat.
But when he saw the Depro shield, as they say to the team, he started to cry.
I was alone.
"We were always with Lucas and our other son, who played until recently," he says.
"Around there he has to be on the substitute bench, but I told him to enjoy it.
And if they lose, it's nothing.
The result is decorative for the whole town.
The only hope is that River has a very bad game and we have the best in our history…
”.
Graciela begins to speak but remains speechless: the game's advertising appears on the television.
What is happening in the town resembles a story by Alejandro Dolina or Eduardo Sacheri
.
Now yes, Graciela continues.
She says she texted her son today but tries to bother him as little as possible.
“It is of few words.
But I'm happy to see you enjoy the hotel, to walk through Puerto Madero, the Obelisk.
Yesterday at the farewell we gave him I started to cry.
He is tough.
But his little eyes said it all.
It is in a dream.
And you have to play games ”.
The team of Deportivo Pronouncement.
Priscila shows clippings from local newspapers.
In the photos, his partner appears playing a game against Talleres de Córdoba, for another Argentine Cup, and celebrating a provincial tournament.
But
today is a day so different from the rest of their lives
.
He even welcomed his mother and sister.
They traveled from Concordia to accompany her during the match.
Since they don't want to cook, they are going to have a bite.
Alejandro Rizzo, number five on the team, is her husband and father of her two daughters
.
Priscila says that she noticed him nervous in recent days.
That it was difficult for him to sleep, that he spoke little, that he ate less.
And he said: “Enjoy the experience, it will be unique.
The result is secondary.
Playing a game like this is already a reward for you and the boys ”.
The Torbour: Marisol, Alejandro, Tobías and Vanina.
In these weeks, every time they went shopping together, all the comments had to do with the same thing.
"They have to beat River", they asked.
Alejandro replied "Is not what they ask for much?"
During the pandemic, Priscila saw Alejandro doing circuits in the backyard of his house.
He watched him run round and round without being able to leave his house.
And these days it is as if I saw him again working as an ambulance, or only collecting travel expenses to play football.
“Their life is not easy.
For this reason, for us Alejandro and his teammates are as big or bigger than the River players ”, he swears.
The Larrozas waiting for the game with the Depro shirt.