The story of Ricardo Centurión in Barracas came to an end in a matter of five months. This is how he confirmed it Sergio Rondinhis coach, who anticipated that “unfortunately I do not think we will take it into account.”
It was after the triumph against River, when the Egg recognized that “Ricky is a different player that we really needed”, but that “currently I have committed soldiers who throw themselves headfirst.” Still, he told ESPN that “The decision has to be made by the leaders”.
Ricky, who arrived at the club in February with an emotional “They were very hard months for me”He played 10 games at Guapo, the last of which was two and a half months ago, against Vélez. After that he suffered a tear, recovered in May and he never returned to the calls again.
Centurion played only 10 games in Barracas.
The tragic life of Centurion
It was June 17, 2012. Luis Zubeldía made him the starter and it didn’t take long for them to compare him with Loco Corbatta. They would have things in common: dribbling and a tragic history. The Academy had a hard time with Rafaela (he would lose 4-2) and the 19-year-old boy who was making his debut began to throw bicycles, feints and pipes, to give the joy that the team had lacked in that Clausura 2012. He played with the audacity of a boy who had fun with his friends. From a distance, it seems that this was the escape valve from a sad life and a hard childhood.
It didn’t take long for Ricardo Centurión to attract attention. Because of the dribbling that began to translate into goals on the second date of the following tournament (he scored for the first time in a 2-0 win against Argentinos) and also because of his habits off the field. He started living strong, Centu. Fast and furious, as if time ran.
The day his photo with a double-spout Itaca Pajera was leaked, a real scandal broke out. The irons were part of his daily life. He happened when he was in Racing. And also in the mouth. They criticized him and he began to withdraw, to gather fury, without talking to anyone. Then, yes, it was time to vent through the networks. The famous, “they tell it as they want.”
The photo of Centurión with a weapon, an image that marked his career and could never be reversed.
“The normal thing for me was to see weapons and drugs. It was what happened next to me. I like weapons. If I had grown up on a yacht, I would like yachts,” he explained later.
Centurión had had a rough childhood. He grew up in Villa Luján, a precarious settlement in Sarandí. The day he bought an apartment with what he won in soccer, he took several of his friends with him. But he could never stop passing through the neighborhood. Until he began to feel like a toad from another well and he decided not to return, to get out of there: “I began to be a peso sign there…”.
It’s just that innocence was a thing of the past. There were already few kids left from childhood, the unconditional ones. “Of my 30 childhood friends, only three remain.” It is not necessary to clarify how they died…
Centurion seems to have lived several lives in one. He was still young when his father died. The situation is confusing, we can hardly tell what he once told: “I lost my old man when I was very young, when I was five years old. He worked in an illegal fireworks factory. It is not known how the factory exploded. There were seven guys who worked there and they all died.”
As if pursued by a curse, the footballer was losing all his loved ones. The tragic death of his father was followed by that of his best friend: “he died in my arms.”
“That was my worst moment,” Centu said. But fate had another slap in store for him. With an open hand, one of those that leave marks.
On March 29, 2020, Melody Pasini died, perhaps the love of her life, Ricky’s partner from those days. She died of a cardiorespiratory arrest while driving. They had been through the pandemic together and she had become a great support. Two weeks earlier he had passed away his grandmother, a surrogate mother who had raised him.
Rondina’s happiness for Barracas’ great triumph against River
“It’s an important victory because of what it means for the club,” Sergio Rondina said about Barracas’ celebration against River. For the club, which is fighting not to return to the Promotion -it is 20th in the averages-, but also for its footballers, for whom the Egg was very happy: “Surely many of them faced their idols, whom until a year or two ago they saw on TV”.
For the game to end like this, with the fall of the pointer and the celebration of the 16th, there were shared responsibilities. Of Demichelis, whose assembly did not give results, and of the deté del Guapo, who, even surprised by the River Plate proposal, was able to make adjustments and obtain revenue. “We prepare one thing and find another. With a team that put together a line of five, with three midfielders, two forwards… The way we played changed a bit, but we managed to settle in”, Rondina commented. Among his keys to reduce River was “having avoided leaked passes, fighting each ball as if it were the last and solidarity on the pitch”in addition to the good performance of the “inverted triangle” made up of Herrera, Arce and #10 Tapia.
“We regret that this game does not give us 10 points”closed the Egg with a laugh, aware that “all the games we have left are complicated” and that we still need to meet “the goal of staying in First Division.”
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