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Much was said about Daniel Cataño after Deportes Tolima lost the final at Manuel Murillo Toro in Ibagué against Atlético Nacionalwho embroidered the 17th star on his shield after five years of title drought and incidentally took revenge for the 2018 final when they fell to Atanasio Girardot at the Manuel Murillo Toro.
in that meeting the Pijao he had everything to turn the series around and achieve his fourth title in historygiven that in the first part those led by Hernán Torres equalized overall, being superior to King of Cupswhich had won the first leg 3-1.
It should be remembered that over the 53 minutes of play, judge Andrés José Rojas decreed a maximum penalty that the person in charge of executing was Daniel Cataño, who could not convert thanks to the intervention of Kevin Mier who drowned out the goal cry 30-year-old paisa at the wheel.
Immediately after the collection from the twelve steps, Cataño tried to catch the rebound, so he collided with Mier, so the action was reviewed by the VAR and led to the player’s expulsion, who apologized to the Tolima fans.
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Both criticism and ridicule and memes were immediate in relation to Daniel Cataño once the game ended in the musical city of Colombia, in which Nacional was proclaimed champion of domestic rental.
In dialogue with the program Win Sports First TouchDaniel Cataño referred to this situation that generated all kinds of comments due to the missed penalty against the team Purslane.
“You know that this is football, these are things that can happen, you never do things with intention, this is part of a sport, it was a tense, difficult moment for me and my family, I took refuge in God (…) He was calm that football gives revenge at some point. It was a tense, difficult time for me and my family.”
Although what he experienced after the final against Nacional was not the reason to take a new path, the player expressed for the program Blu Radio Sports Blog that he felt that he had already completed a cycle in Tolima, for which he informed the directors of his intention to leave the institution.
“I requested a change of scenery. It was time to leave the institution, we had been four years. I approached the directors, I expressed my feelings and that of my family, they also looked for the opportunity and a good business was reached with Millonarios”.
In his four years with the Deportes Tolima jersey, Daniel Cataño played 99 games with a balance of six goals and was part of the squad that achieved the third for the Red Wine and Gold and also won the Superliga beating Deportivo Cali.
Daniel Cataño totals 21,245 minutes of play, 341 games played and 42 goals scored. In his sports career, he went through other teams such as Independiente Medellín in 2017, Deportivo Pasto in 2017, Atlético Bucaramanga between 2015-2016 and Leones de Itagüí from 2011 to 2014, since it was there that he debuted as a professional player.
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