River-Boca: who is the “Rock” Moreno, the millionaire bodyguard who managed to stop the final fight

The whistle at the end of the Super classic was delayed because, after the River’s winning goal in discount time, the players of both teams, starters and substitutes, were braided in a pitched battle where shoves and slaps flew everywhere. And there he appeared Diego Moreno, which superhero, stop try to calm down a bit among so many crosses “The rock”what is it called, He is one of the security men who guard the establishment of “millionaires”.

The Superclásico was about to end with a scoreless draw when the referee Dario Herrera He saw a penalty in the Boca area -infraction by Agustín Sández on Pablo Solari- and the striker Miguel Borja he exchanged it for a goal cry. But a reprehensible attitude of Agustín Palavecino, who celebrated in the face of some xeneize players, caused the initial outburst of anger from goalkeeper Sergio Romero that spread to the other players.

While Borja continued in his world celebrating the penalty towards one of the stands of the Más Monumental stadium, in the middle of the playing field there was a series of slaps, shoves and insults amid a tangle of blue and yellow and white and red shirts.

It was then that “The Rock” made its stellar appearance and interceded so that the aggressions did not advance. His presence prevented, for example, the striker xeneize Luis Vázquez, one of the most outrageous footballers, from clashing with Milton Casco. It was enough for him to hold him to control the dislocated young man. The beefy bodyguard too “convinced” the millionaire’s players to return to the substitute bench. The Justice analyzes ex officio for these hours the actions of the players Palavecino, Vázquez and Marcos Rojo due to the incidents.

It is the second time in a few days that “La Roca” had to intervene. Friday of the other week when River went to the locker room at the end of the first half against Atlético de Tucumánthe field assistants of Martín Demichelis Javier Pinola and Germán Lux were left discussing airily with the referee Fernando Rapallini in the tunnel. The reason? They claimed a foul prior to the home team’s first goal.

The former defender realized that an official broadcast camera was filming the discussion and slapped it away. “La Roca”, who was standing at the entrance door of the millionaire’s locker room, “asked” the television worker to stop recording.

Moreno became known years ago after a United Arab Emirates newspaper compared him to actor Dwayne Johnson. He has been a security man for the River club since he Marcelo Gallardo chose him as one of the references to guard the squad and coaching staff. “La Roca” was born in the Buenos Aires city of Pringles and is a fan of the millionaire – in fact, he used to go to the field before working at the club.

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