National Athletic they have a big deficit of defenders and one of the many that were discarded by the club in recent years, due to inexplicable decisions, is succeeding in football abroad. This is Nicolás Hernández, who will play the grand final of the Copa Libertadores 2022.
The llanero, who had a stormy departure from the ‘King of Cups’, today is part of the payroll of one of the most successful clubs on the continent: Atlético Paranaense from Brazil, with whom he was champion of the 2021 South American Cup and who will now fight for the title of the biggest tournament at the club level in South America.
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At just 24 years old, the man who was sent on loan to various FPC clubslike Real Santander and Independiente Santa Fe, and who did not have the desired opportunity in the ‘King of Cups’, in which he was trained, is 90 minutes away from lifting a new Conmebol trophy with ‘Furacao’.
So far in the Cup, Hernández has acted in five of the 12 games played by the team commanded, today, by Luiz Felipe Scolari. And he even scored a goal, in the victory against Libertad from Paraguay; for the ‘first leg’ of the round of 16 of the contest; vital to continue in the tournament.
This is how he continues to increase his record in his nascent career, far from the club in which, due to administrative and football decisions, because at the time it was not in the plans of either Juan Carlos Osorio or the Brazilian Alexandre Guimaraes; so he had to go far away to look for opportunities.
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“When I started at Nacional, teacher Autuori gave me the opportunity and I had a lot of confidence. Later, due to the coaches’ tastes, I didn’t have that confidence from the club and that’s all in football”, Hernández recalled last November, in dialogue with ‘Blog Deportivo’.
#LoDijeronEnBLU “I didn’t have the confidence of the club and the coaches who were there at the time”: Nicolás Hernández, Copa Sudamericana champion, passes through Atlético Nacional #BlogDeportivo pic.twitter.com/RJFBELGucb
– Blog Deportivo (@blogdeportivo) November 22, 2021
At the time, it was mentioned that having broken the relationship with Carolina Ardila, club director and who has his own representation agency, Elite Player, influenced him not to stay in the institution. And he practically left for free, by not entering the sports project.
Meanwhile, the eleventh paisa is looking for a replacement for Juan David Cabal, sold to Hellas Verona in Italy, and Felipe Aguilar, who had to go to Lanús in Argentina by decision of the owner of his rights: Santos. And by the way, Cristian Castro, injured today.
