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Sportinguistas speak of the viral photo in the Tartiere: “There was no problem”

Photography couldn’t be more powerful: two rojiblancos fans, with their Sporting shirts and scarves, in the middle of one of the Carlos Tartiere stands surrounded by blue fans in the previous derby that ended Saturday with a draw (1-1) at the Tartiere. They are Pelayo and Alejandro Vigil Mon, 13-year-old twins, from Gijón, “from the Contrueces-Montevil area” and “sportinguistas since we were born.”

“It was very exciting”, they happen to assure, run over, interrupting each other. They continue with the nerves of having lived “something unique”. Their mobile phone does not stop ringing. He’s been like this all day. “All the friends, the classmates, the soccer team… They are all sending us the photo, tagging us and commenting on us”, the brothers assure with palpable pride. That of having lived a special moment that will remain forever in the retina not only of yours, but also of the collective imagination.

“It was amazing”they explain. Above all, because they did not expect to be able to live the game live. “With all the mess of tickets, we thought we would not be able to go,” they converge. But parental love can do everything. It was his father, Marco Vigil, who got the tickets. “They were the driving force, as the week went by, they asked me to go more and more”, explains the father. “At first I saw it complicated, but in the end I got the tickets from a co-worker,” he says. Thus, the two adolescents, their father, their uncle José Luis and their grandfather Silvino, went to the field.

The red-and-white twins, in the Tartiere


“We arrived from class and we had the tickets at home, printed”, the two brothers recall, “it was a great emotion, a lot of euphoria”. But nothing comparable to what they felt when entering the field. “It was weird, because we had never been there,” they recall. The desire was so great that they entered the stadium alone. “We told them to wait for Grandpa, but they were anxious,” recalls their father. Both Marco and José Luis and Silvino sat a few seats higher, but the two young men did not. They wanted to be down, as close to the players as possible. “They told us to go to the visiting area, but we said no, we wanted to encourage the team from close up,” they highlight.

“And get Babin’s shirt”, explains Pelayo, unconditional fan of the central Martinique. “I love it, he is the best player of all,” he confirms. His brother, on the other hand, stays with Fran Villalba and Guille Rosas, who “greeted us at the end of the game.” “We crossed our eyes with some of them and it was shocking,” they emphasize, still excited.

They lived the game in a different way. “Quiet” Alejandro and “tense” Pelayo. The culminating moment came with the goals. With the first, by Lucas Ahijado for Oviedo, came disappointment. “We were sitting, head down,” they recall. But Djuka’s draw sparked madness. “We celebrated it as if we were in El Molinón, we didn’t care to be in Oviedo and surrounded by blues,” they remarked. “I left my voice shouting and cheering,” Pelayo actually emphasizes. “He came out of the hoarse field,” his father endorsed with laughter. “It was a goal pass, what quality! Neither Neymar does that ”, they point out.

But always comfortable, without ever feeling attacked by rival fans. “They behaved very well with us, nobody told us anything,” they explain. “Those who were next to us were cracks”, they add. “Only someone behind us said something to us when we celebrated the goal,” they recall.

“At no time was I afraid to take them to the field,” explains his father, “we just doubted whether to wear the shirts and scarves.” In fact, he remembers, “the grandfather did not want us to be rojiblanco, but there was no way of convincing them”, proof of his sportinguism. Upon reaching the outskirts, Marco recalls, “a policeman suggested that we take off our scarves and hide them, so that there would be no problem, but the Oviedo fans themselves said no, we should keep them, that nothing was going to happen.”

For the father of the two twins, “people had the intention of giving normality to the derby, to show that nothing happens to go to the rival field to live the game.” Something that was completely demonstrated with the image of the two teenagers. “You can live a derby normally,” emphasizes his father. “Nothing happens, football is football and you have to live it with sportsmanship,” emphasize Alejandro and Pelayo.

And, for them “Sporting is football.” Because they sucked the sportinguismo from small. “We have been sportinguistas since before we can remember,” they say. “This year we are going to go up for sure”, they say, “look what a great team we have, it’s crazy!”. Like the one they are living. “Messages keep coming to us,” they say. The phone only rested during the game they were playing yesterday morning with their team, La Braña, in the cadet category – Pelayo is a goalkeeper and Alejandro, a winger. “Don’t put the best result,” they smile, trying to forget with sportsmanship what was supposed to be a bitter defeat.

The same sportsmanship that they and the Oviedo fans showed on Saturday. An image of pique, but healthy. Of coexistence. Of normality. An image that was repeated in more areas of the field and that the twins represent better than anyone. All for a passion, the rojiblanca, and for a shirt, Babin’s.

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