What happened happened, and I am absolutely convinced of one thing: this championship will be remembered for what River did, not for anything else. We are so great, that it will be so. Within 30 years, throughout history, what happened this afternoon will remain on the Racing field on one side of the scale; and on the other, always, Oriente Petrolero. So many but so many nonsense were said in the previous one that it is better not to remember them, much less their intellectual authors. Specific: that no one put us in the same bag again, please.
But that’s it, I don’t want to give so much importance to all this. Not even to the fact of having seen a Bombonera full and dwarfed like never before shouting River’s goals en masse, while a few sensible ones pleaded please that such baseness not be committed because it was going to remain in the gold books. “I saw you shout the goals of River”, I could say a T-shirt. Or another one that says: “The Doll made you champion”as to put each one in the place of importance that it deserves.
I want to get out of such rottenness and point out something that, for me, was the best thing that happened to River this Sunday… In a note prior to the broadcast, Gustavo Yarroch interviewed Juan Fernando Quintero. After two or three rigorous consultations about his crazy reaction with the referee Fernando Echenique in the last match against Rosario Central and that cost him the expulsion, the inevitable question regarding his future fell. There were seven words: “In my head is to continue in River”said our 10. And we all got excited.
When the foam of this madness goes down, this will be a central theme in River. Until now, no one imagined Quintero playing without Gallardo on the bench. But yes the guy is willing to continue on top of the ship with Demichelis, Coudet, Gareca or whoever as captainThen it will be time to sit down and have a serious chat with him. I hope you stay home.
