"
I didn't score many goals, but here I scored one that changed my career
, I told the president. People came to see me, I played well, I scored and I went to Mexico. I know what it means to play well against Boca," he said. Jorge Almirón, brand new coach xeneize, at the press conference where he was officially presented.
Almirón played little in Argentine soccer.
He did it first in San Miguel, in the Primera B Metropolitano -third category- between 1991 and 1994. Then he went on loan first to Santiago Wanderers of Chile and later to Deportivo Español, which played in the First Division.
He arrived for the Apertura 96, played 17 of the 19 matches in the tournament and scored no goals.
In the Clausura 97, he added another 15 games and scored two goals, one against San Lorenzo and the other against Boca, on June 1, 1997, in a 3-1 win at La Bombonera.
"The first 20 minutes of the game had the exclusive seal of Spanish. Almirón's goal arrived (Guzmán hesitated to go out to cover Guede before) and the goalkeeper began to live an ordeal that seems to have no end," it read the next day in the chronicle of the Clarín game, which rated the performance of the new Boca coach with a 6.
Almirón had saved this photo that was taken a while ago on a wall with the Boca flag.
After that date, the tournament went into recess due to the Copa América in Bolivia.
After 40 days, the tournament resumed on Saturday, July 12.
On Monday the 14th, Español tied 0-0 with Platense in Bajo Flores.
It was
the last game that Almirón had a poor performance
and was rated 3.
At that time,
the Bajo Flores club came into conflict with six players for lack of payment
, which caused one of the last strikes by Argentine Soccer Players, which paralyzed activity since July 22.
In addition, Mexican soccer was preparing for a new season and always had players in its sights.
One of them was Almirón, whose pass belonged to San Miguel.
On July 18, the Atlas leaders bought the pass for the Argentine midfielder (he was 26 years old),
for just $600,000, little for the Mexicans, a fortune for the Green Thunder
.
A week later, Almirón made his official debut in Argentine soccer.
On July 26, for the first date of the 97 Winter Tournament, Atlas defeated Puebla 2-1.
He stayed forever.
After 12 years, he ended his career as a soccer player and began his career as a coach in 2009 at Dorados de Sinaloa.
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