Could it have been Germán Cano's dream night?
It is difficult to make such a statement.
It is that, this year, the Argentine scorer of Fluminense, got tired of breaking nets.
Yes, during 2023 the attacker with light blue and white blood
has a better goal average than Haaland, Mbappé and Benzema
.
Flu's top scorer has the same cries as Manchester City's Norwegian Android: 23 goals although in 21 games, two games less than the giant led by Guardiola.
For this reason, this morning, the European sports media headlined with astonishment:
"Cano surpasses Haaland"
.
And in that race they will be until the end of the year, the Argentine who
is already the second highest foreign gunner in Brazilian lands
.
The first is the Serbian Petkovic with 84 goals.
The 67 of the
Argentine who makes the Maracana scream
put him above Paolo Guerrero, who follows him with 57.
Germán Cano stopped being a stranger in our country in recent times.
The headlines of his goals have not stopped arriving from Brazil since 2020. In fact,
in little more than three years he has already exceeded one hundred shouts thanks
to his passing through Vasco da Gama and Fluminense.
But
this Wednesday morning
, Google searches skyrocketed.
When one puts his name in the search engine, the first options offered by the internet giant are "Germán Cano fan of", "Germán Cano Boca", "age", "Germán Cano fan of RIver..."
Last night
,
the Argentine who was born in Lomas de Zamora 35 years ago
, went through Lanús, Colón and Chacarita (where he barely scored three goals, clubs in which he was questioned) and went through Colombia and Mexico before making the leap. to Brazil,
he had his perfect match against River
.
Another perfect game from a footballer who left our country being a perfect stranger.
Cano scored 3 goals against Martín Demichelis' Millionaire
who received his first open-hand slap since he sat on the River bench.
But
it could have been five
.
It is that, the man who also went through the Mexican Pachuca had another annulled, due to an offside at the beginning of the play, and he even shot one of the posts.
"It was a dream night.
We gave a lecture on how to play football, and for me, scoring three goals at the Maracana and against River is something very special
," Cano highlighted after the match.
"
The result could have been broader
. River came out even for us, that's why it was an open match. For us that's much better," said the attacker who debuted in Lanús in 2008.
"Now, as a team, we must continue like this because we can aspire to great things, and we must do it with the usual humility," said Cano who, since he arrived at Fluminense, has already won two Carioca Championships and two state cups.
"
Last year and this are the best of my career , right now that I'm 35 years old," the attacker who
already has 67 goals in 90 games for Fluminense
celebrates and laments
.
His goal average in these two years is enviable and reaches 0.75 per game.
Without going any further, Benzema scored 21 and Mbappé 17.
Cano is fully recognized in Brazil, even by the most established players.
One night at the Flu concentration, the players
listened to the crack Marcelo, who won five Champions League with Real Madrid,
who said that the player who had amazed him the most had been Gareth Bale, for his simplicity to define first.
"And here we have the matador, who does it with both legs," he said and pointed to the Argentine who did not enter the body of the mention of him.
The complicity between Cano and Marcelo is so great that, when the Argentine defines thanks to an assist from the full-back, they gather on one side of the field to celebrate CR7 and together they shout "Siuuuu!".
Why do you celebrate by forming the letter L with your index finger and thumb?
Because she dedicates the goals to his little son Lorenzo.
Germán Cano and his triplet, one of the protagonists in the Flu networks.
Photo: Twitter.
Cano scored in all the competitions he played this year with the Rio de Janeiro team
: he did it in the Guanabara Cup, the Brazil Cup, the Brasileirao and
the Copa Libertadores where he already has 5 goals and is one behind Pabón,
the Atlético Nacional player who leads the scorers table.
It is worth saying that Cano did not kick penalties and the Colombian scored two from twelve steps.
After being a globetrotter in the American leagues, Cano found his promised land in Brazil: beach, hills, sand and goals, many goals.
He came to Vasco da Gama, where he scored 43 goals in two years and at Fluminense he became a total killer: 44 goals in 2022, breaking the record of Neymar and Gabigol in a calendar year and now he has 23 cries.
Despite his present, Cano believes that it is difficult to reach the national team, although he does not lose: "What I can do is do the best in my team, it is difficult to enter into this process. But I am a huge fan of the National Team," says Cano who even encouraged the World Champion team in Qatar.
