07/27/2021 11:47 PM
Clarín.com
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Updated 07/27/2021 11:47 PM
Beyond the controversies, the managerial pulls, the economic crisis and the low level seen in Argentine tournaments, soccer continues to be soccer thanks to players like Néstor Ortigoza. The captain of the Cyclone showed his badge in La Bombonera and became great among the boys of Boca. Despite giving physical advantages, Orti took over the midfield and pressed when he had to press, shouted at the moments that had to be done and ended up sealing the result with an early penalty goal, in the second half, which
lowered the blind to the classic
.
The game started spicy for Ortigoza
.
"This is for the points ...", he commented later with a smile, knowing how much his team was playing on the cold night in La Boca.
With these three points, San Lorenzo climbs to 7 units and is accommodated in the table waiting for what happens with Lanús, Patronato and Godoy Cruz, the only three teams that won their first two games of the contest.
And as the Boca boys moved out with the same arrogance as against Banfield, last Saturday, Ortigoza wanted to take the stop quickly, focusing his sights on Edwin Cardona, another who started with a charged battery.
They pushed each other and were face to face, drawing sparks, a situation that ended up accommodating the Cyclone in the game.
Ortigoza scored against Boca and kissed the shield of San Lorenzo.
Photo: JUAN MABROMATA / AFP.
"We are a serious team, we always play in the same way. We did not have to give anything away. The first minutes we entered asleep but then we settled down," Ortigoza acknowledged after the game.
And he added, praising the attributes of Sebastián Battaglia's youth: "This was for the points, the boys play well. A pity that they have played three games in five days. We take it as a final."
Ortigoza and the "no" to kiricocho.
The best you are going to see tonight.
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- out of context san lorenzo (@OutOfContextSL) July 28, 2021
"We are on the sidelines, we train and prepare for the match. We have neither voice nor vote.
We congratulate the boys because they played a serious match
," Ortigoza concluded about everything that surrounded the match against Boca, the postponement requests and the confrontation between the director of the Professional Football League, Marcelo Tinelli and Juan Román Riquelme.
Ortigoza took the game so seriously that after converting his penalty he ran into one of the Xeneizes boys who was talking to him to achieve the impossible, that the specialist from twelve steps missed his shot.
"Not me, eh ...", was read on Nestor's lips
, who barely celebrated the conquest. He was almost challenging him, although afterwards he joked about it, as if he understood that audacity typical of youth: "They want to take advantage of the minutes they have, and they go like this in all but with Orti not ...". Later it was learned that he had been shouted "kirikocho", the word mufa that is used to cause the kicker to lose concentration.
Ortigoza is immune to everything: he kicked 53 and converted 49. Crazy.
Néstor Ortigoza: "The Boca boys are fine, they go to all of them, they want to show ... but not with Orti."
#SanLorenzo
♥ ️ Not with Orti!
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- Debate San Lorenzo (@DebateSL) July 28, 2021
"The important thing is that the people of San Lorenzo are happy and we improve confidence. We have to keep growing in our spirits," closed Orti, who returned home to retire.
Football, grateful.
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