Zárate’s harangue before facing Vélez

The Platense striker, repudiated by the Fortín fans, experienced a special match on his return to Liniers.

Platense won 1-0 a Velez for the second date of Professional Leaguein the Jose Amalfitani Stadiumin a match which had Mauro Zárate as a special protagonist, who returned to Liniers…

The striker of Squid -pointed by fans of the Fort for his departure to Boca in mid-2018- was in charge of giving the harangue to his teammates on the field of play, before the start of the match. Already in it, the scorer’s whistles were not long in coming and every time he was in contact with the ball, the whistles from the supporters quickly descended from the stands. And although the harassment was present at each touch of the ball and when he was replaced, it was less than what he suffered on that visit to Amalfitani for the first time with the shirt of the Xeneize.

At that moment, the Velez fans were much more aggressive and at all times there were chants alluding to the attacker leaving the institution of the Ribera. The most notorious occurred when, during the anthem, the followers of the popular north called him a traitor, among other insults. Likewise, the posters with different insults were also noted, and the word traitor was seen on each flag or cardboard that was on the field.

The insults of the people of Vélez to Mauro Zárate, who returned to Liniers with Platense

The celebration of Mauro Zárate to Vélez with the Boca shirt

the figure of Tensewho has already faced his former team in five games, all wearing the blue and yellow jersey, made a controversial gesture in 2019 for the quarterfinals of the Super League Cup. In the definition by penalties, in which Boca eliminated Velez 5-4Zárate converted his and celebrated euphorically in front of all the local fans, hitting the shield.

However, that was not all and What ended up unleashing the Fortín supporter’s anger was the post-elimination statement when he said that “the big team passed”. Although later, in dialogue with Fox Sportsretracted what he said and sentenced: “I don’t regret the goal celebration, because it was a very difficult game and we wanted to win the Cup. saying. That’s it. Apologizing doesn’t change anything.”.