The loss of Quini left Óscar Castro without wanting to know anything about football. He even had a hard time seeing his Sporting. Everything, absolutely everything reminded him of his father. The ball, his obsession as a child and adolescent, was a complete nuisance for those who sought to reset his life and get away from that feeling of nostalgia. Almost five years later, the youngest of the four sons of the greatest Sporting legend is once again happy with what gave him so much joy in the past. For a few months he has been a delegate –actually he works almost as an assistant coach– of the Montevil Junior Second Division team.
“I have re-engaged in football, at last. I leave work and go to train with the kids at the Noega public school and I feel like when I was ‘guaje’. I am very excited. It’s like going back to childhood,” he explains. It all started with a conversation between co-workers. Actually, between friends. Juan José Galán Nosti, a former professional futsal player and coach, summoned up enough courage to try to persuade him to get back on the ball.
He then proposed that he lend a hand with the Montevil junior team: a small group of boys between the ages of eight and nine. “I got the bug… We talked a lot about football at work. I liked what we talked about and I dared,” he explains. It is a small step, but Óscar, happy, already dreams of one day making the leap to the bench. “My idea is to get the coaching title. I don’t have a date yet, but I like it a lot. I dream of training in Mareo,” he says with great enthusiasm. Whoever grew up with one of the best forwards in the history of this country now aspires to be a talent trainer for the future.
Óscar did not step foot in the Sporting first team. But he arrived at the National League in Mareo in a youth team that was golden: that of Javi Fuego, Jorge, Adrián Colunga or Alejandro. At the moment he remains in the background. He wants the children to enjoy playing soccer. But he has already dared with some advice and, above all, with a lot of psychology: words of encouragement. He remembers some that had an immediate effect. They were addressed to Hector. “You are going to score a goal,” he encouraged him from the bench. And the gourd came out and the first thing he did was agree with him. “In the end he didn’t score one, he scored two,” he joked. “Hopefully a new David Villa or a Quini can leave this team. That would be great for Asturias,” says Óscar, smiling.
