Independiente
fans
are experiencing a historic moment.
It is that thanks to them, the
Red
dreams of getting out of his hell of debts at the hands of the furor that caused the collection started by the influencer
Santiago Maratea
.
The show of love from the fans is reflected in the millionaire figure reached on the first day of the action.
The movement that the 30-year-old influencer shouldered exceeds all expectations: in just 24 hours from the opening of the Mercado Pago account, the amount reached is $463 million
pesos
.
The fans, with the figure of Maratea at their head, go in search of salvation for Red.
In just one hour, 74 million pesos had already entered the trust.
It's hard to imagine so much money in such a short time.
What's more, if everything continues like this, just ten days would be enough to meet the expectations of reaching the
20 million dollars
that the club needs to start reversing the brutal liabilities accumulated in years and years of bad management.
Fortunately, the alias
Maratearojo
does not stop exploding.
Although it seems difficult to raise so much money in just 24 hours, several of the cases that were reported of fans who cooperated with their club make this situation understandable: from a 12-year-old boy who sold his boots to donate the proceeds to the Maratea's account, as well as dozens of former players who made public their desire to collaborate.
Maratea being introduced at the press conference.
Photo: Guillermo Rodríguez Adami.
And Maratea does not get out of focus.
His statements make him seem calm despite the fact that he is the axis of a move that promises to save Independiente from the biggest financial crisis in its history.
In fact, it is already the largest collection of his life because it outnumbered any he has taken in his history as official fundraiser for the needy.
"
It's as simple as knowing that the money goes where it has to go. I don't know if it's so difficult not to steal money.
I can handle 20 million dollars without problems and without missing a peso
," the possible axis responsible for said with confidence. the salvation of the Avellaneda club.
"
What I do is not charity. It has to do with how we organize ourselves to reach collective solutions
," said the influencer with 3.6 million followers on Instagram about how he would define the gestures he makes to help people in need.
In this case, it is an institution that comes to his rescue.
"
Today we would need 2,200,000 to put 4,000 pesos for the increase in the dollar
," Maratea explained at the press conference about the minimum amount that he would like each collaborator to provide.
Maratea along with the awards he received for being chosen as the influencer of 2022. Photo: Instagram.
Two years were enough for Maratea to become the leader of the collections.
In February 2021, with 200,000 followers, Maratea gave way to what would be his first gesture:
the purchase of an ambulance for the Wichi community of Salta
.
That act would mark the beginning of a string that few would imagine would end with Independiente as the recipient of his moves.
There are already several collections that Maratea has to his credit.
In total there are more than ten actions in a period of less than 3 years.
In the top 1 is the collection for the purchase of the most expensive medicine in the world to help Emma, a baby suffering from spinal muscular atrophy.
On that occasion, at the end of 2021, she managed to collect the
necessary 2 million dollars
.
However, once the collection for Independent is finished, she is she will drop down one position.
Position 2, for a much smaller total, is the collection of
100,000 dollars
that allowed Argentine athletes to travel to South America in Ecuador and thus be able to participate in it.
It was May 2021.
Finally, the last position on the podium also belongs to an amount of
100 thousand dollars
reached in July 2021. It was destined to allow the transfer of Tamy from the Mendoza Ecopark to an elephant sanctuary in Brazil.
The minute by minute of what was the first day of collection
During
the press conference at the Libertadores de América-Ricardo Enrique Bochini, Maratea showed his cell phone to the cameras, where the figure of
74 million pesos
could be seen on the screen .
A single hour was the time that he had published the account.
Santiago Maratea shows his cell phone to announce how much money his collection for Independiente has raised.
Photo: Capture TV.
Three hours later the total would already exceed
200 million
, so that five hours later that number almost doubles when the Mercado Pago account marks
360 million
pesos available to its credit.
The historical collection of Maratea: Photo: Instagram.
Finally, at the end of the day, Maratea would leave the news that more than
400 million
had already been raised .
And then the lapse of the whole night was enough to reach 463, at least momentarily.
In the event that the rate is maintained at this level, the estimates made by Santiago may prove the experience that his old collections gave him.
"
Good morning
," wrote the influencer in his last story, indirectly greeting all the Independiente fans, trying to make them smile when they saw how the total amount increased each time.
Thus began the day the collection for Independiente.
Photo: Instagram.
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