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There does not believe the reader who spoke to him in this post of a player replete with talent, with a forthcoming one for Europe. No, Pablo, the Clown, Lugüercio is not the eternal one new Maradona, for anything. But the soccer has nice histories that deserve to be few. And there his goes. Luguercio is the front outstanding figure who does not score goals. It sounds paradoxically, even ridiculously, but it is like that. Because, although one believes the opposite, there are forwards who are enormously valid, although they do not score goals, or at least they do not do 20 for period, but seven or eight. We might compare it, much of background, skylight, with Carlos Tévez of Europe, a fighter, the man that every trainer wants in his team to press the hostile rearguard, a tireless hardened one that does of the claw his best weapon.

Lugüercio has 27 years. His soccer career has few lights, although it has them. Everything began for him in the Students’ low ones. Step by step it came to the first team in 2001. It remained in La Plata until 2005, where it initiated a profitable experience in Peru that came to him very well to mature. It returned Students and Simeone embraced it as to a son, since it was fulfilling the characteristics that so much it appreciates ex-internationally. It did not give him the entitlement but it turned into the number twelve. When Simeone in that epoch was saying that Estudiantes was going out with the knife between you teeth, everybody was thinking about the Clown. In fact, it played as starter that exceptional final in the field of Vélez, in which Students it stopped without Opening to Mouth in December, 2006.

Two summers ago it departed for Racing, where there ended up by meeting Ricardo Lombardo Caruso, a technical specialist in the guerrilla war, a man who adapts his system to the way and not the other way round, principal explanation of the defeat of many technical staff. Especially from the Caruso arrival, after the Llop march, Lugüercio turned into one of the emblems of Racing. That Racing of the past Clausura, which offered so good results, was basing on an exceptional and great organization pressure. It was a great team of attitude more than of aptitude. And Lugüercio was his spur.

Pero Caruso left last month, after seeing that his revolution was suffocating in the defeat in the starter of the Opening. Nevertheless, Lugüercio keeps on being one of the hopes of the tough Racing people, even with a man in the stool like Claudio Vivas. I interrupt the history of the Clown to count briefly that of Alive. The new trainer of the Academy is the eternal second of Bielsa, a man who pleases for the offensive game like the Madman, but who, on having come to Racing, has realized that the best thing that can do is to defend well, to scratch with the pressure and to take the blow with a ball as a better route for the percussion, considering many limitations.

Clarified the personage Vivas, we continue with Lugüercio. Two weeks ago the Academy hammered the Athletic Tucumán, when there was training of temporary form the technician of the house Juan Barbas, ex-Saragossa, achieving his first victory in the tournament, in the eighth date. Lugüercio did the first one, being one of the leaders in that victory. This end of last week the team of Avellaneda was receiving in the Cylinder to powerfully Students and the Clown, just person before his ex-, it demonstrated his indomitable character again.

To Students only it was costing him the victory to remain put in the struggle by the Opening, given the impressive rhythm of Banfield and Newell’s. Pero Racing, in the catacombs of the table, walks needier than anybody to avoid the eternal bogey of the promotion. It is sad that a big one of the world soccer walks in this tessitura … But in Argentina it is normal, it is necessary only to see the derisory River mediocrity in the last period of five years. Returning to the history of the Clown, the matter rests on that after starting the shock to Pablo him a good ball fell down and hooked a small right that slipped in inside of inappealable form. The Cylinder atronó Avellaneda. When mark Racing trembles the Avenue Mitre, the echoes of every goal stagger the contaminated waters of the Creek. It is like that, Racing is an inexplicable passion, that’s why when it appears the logic of the goal appears, the fury burns.

He had to be Lugüercio the one that was marking, precisely he, with the whole life in Students, lay brother inflates of the Prickle. In a gesture that honors him, after seeing the leather at the bottom of the meshes, it fixed the look to the soil and started walking towards his field, receiving the hugs and caresses of the rest of his partners. The shock was vibrant, Students it was too tight, the Clown, exhibiting this singular race that makes him be wanted somewhere near where it goes, even could put the second one. Perhaps there did not want … And came the moment to be replaced. Minute 78, the hero of the Acadé goes out of the field and the whole Cylinder choruses his name. The Racing fans chorus it and also the thousands of Students’ followers that have moved up to Avellaneda. The image is exceptional, impressive, because Students and Racing support for ages a big rivalry, considering the friendship of the people of the Acadé with that of Gymnastics, other Racing species in small version.

At the end of the shock Lugüercio he confessed to feel grieved for having left his team of the soul out of the tournament, although, obviously, it was showing happiness for three points that Racing adds, oxygen of the good one for a moribund one that it resists. This is Racing, unfortunately. He had to be Lugüercio, yes, the one that was doing so much. The soccer is like that, it has these things. This is the history of an anonymous but captivating soccer player.