Nahuel Lanzillotta
06/14/2021 2:35 PM
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 06/14/2021 2:53 PM
Néstor Ortigoza's smile never fades. Not even behind the chinstrap can he hide the happiness he feels of returning to "his home" as this 36-year-old midfielder tells San Lorenzo, the club with which the Promotion fought to avoid relegation and then touched the sky with his hands when converting the penalty that gave him the Copa Libertadores in 2014. "I had a few days of great anxiety, but then I calmed down when things got under way. My children, who are quite terrible, made me distract a little, ha," says
Orti
with his shirt 20, loaned by Juan Ramírez, and the ball under the shoe's zuela.
"This lap holds me with a lot of experience and a lot of desire. I have my feet on the ground. I know that I come at a time from San Lorenzo that is difficult, but I assumed this responsibility. The older ones have to take responsibility so that the younger ones enjoy I am happy and more prepared than ever, "says the Barça idol, who in his presentation reveals to
Clarín
that he could modify his decision to retire in December to continue with the short positions for a longer time.
-Did you think that you missed the train and that you would not be able to return?
-I was scared, but I never stopped thinking about what could happen.
I feel like I can help in this club moment.
That is why I also wanted to be here.
Ortigoza confessed that he was "scared" not to return to San Lorenzo.
Photo: Luciano Thieberger.
-How are you physically?
-I'm good.
I played five dates of the Promotion tournament this year.
I feel fine.
I come to fight for a position, I do not come to waste time or do the plank.
The affection of the people is another plus for me.
If from the physical I am in a 70, imagine that with the affection of the people I reach a hundred.
I don't know how to explain what I feel for people's love, it's something very big.
And a responsibility too.
-Did you speak with Sebastián Torrico, who for now has not agreed to the renewal? Can you imagine a San Lorenzo without it?
-
Torri
is a kid we love very much.
He went through all the moments of the club and also already has little left in his career as he has stated.
I don't see him outside the club.
Everything is part of a negotiation.
I want to believe that everything will be solved and it will end up staying.
I didn't speak to him this week, but I don't see him outside of San Lorenzo.
- Are you going back to be in charge of the locker room?
-I don't know if in command.
I am going to be an important influence for who I am for the club, as Torrico is, as are the Romeros.
Here we have to take responsibility for the situation in which we are each in their role.
There is not much turn to give.
-You will name the Romeros, who were involved in some inmates in the dressing room, how do you feel that the group stayed with them?
-Look, here in San Lorenzo I didn't have them.
And I cannot comment on what is said in that sense.
What I can comment on is what I shared with them in the Paraguayan national team.
How they play, what am I going to say if they break it all.
And as companions I had a great time with them.
I had a good time with both of them.
We will go day by day sharing here and getting to know each other more in the dressing room.
We want to have a good time and that this translates to fighting important things.
-Many are already excited to see you share the pitch with them.
-That's going to have to be decided by the DT.
He will know when yes and when not.
You have to wait for the technician to come and make decisions.
I have to demonstrate because in football you always have to demonstrate.
The demand is always there.
"I had a great time with the Romeros in the Paraguayan team," said Ortigoza, who will now have them as teammates in the Cyclone.
Photo: Luciano Thieberger.
-Are you going to be close to the youngest of the squad?
-The pressure we have to absorb the greatest.
The boys have to go out and enjoy themselves, this is not the time for them to take responsibility for this.
What I'm going to do is come, train and try to infect my teammates.
I will demonstrate my commitment by training, not talking.
-Since obtaining the Copa Libertadores, the club entered a slide and it is difficult for them to get back up in football, can you find an explanation?
-I can't talk much about when I wasn't there.
I know that good players were brought in and the technicians of the moment were brought in.
Dabove came from doing very good campaigns in Godoy Cruz and Argentinos Juniors.
Results and performances were not given.
There were some good games, but others not so good.
From the outside it was seen that a regularity could not be sustained.
That we have to try to achieve.
“What I'm going to do is come, train and try to infect my teammates.
I am going to show my commitment by training, not talking ”.
Nestor Ortigoza
-Can you aspire to fight for the title in this context of austerity that the club is going through?
-Nothing is easy.
In football everything is difficult, but nothing is impossible.
We have to become strong from the group, that there are no cracks.
And focus on one goal to go for that.
There is no other.
-You said you had the decision to retire at the end of the year ...
- (Interrupts) I don't know if I'm going to retire at the end of years now, huh.
-Did you change your mind?
-Let me see, ha.
-But can you reconsider?
-And we are going to see how I am feeling over the weeks and how I can perform on the field.
I will go watching every six months.
In this way it is a motivation for me also to set that goal of being well to continue.
