Cristian Medina’s Heartwarming Gesture: Boca Juniors Player Helps Youth Player and Family

Cristian Medina with the Boca youth player and his family

Boca Juniors is in the prelude to the next 10 most important days of the season. Next Thursday, the team led by Jorge Almirón will host Palmeiras in the first leg of the Copa Libertadores semifinals. At 72 hours, Xeneize will be home again when they host River Plate in the Argentine soccer Superclásico and then they will have what will be the revenge against the Brazilian team as a visitor.

One of the pillars that Boca has is Cristian Medina. The 21-year-old midfielder became the undisputed starter since the arrival of the new coach and his performance grew to become a key character for the scaffolding of the game. Beyond strictly football, the player who wears the blue and gold number 36 shirt made headlines for another reason.

In the last few hours, a gesture by Medina went viral on social networks, especially on accounts related to the xeneize world. After the home draw against Lanús, the midfielder helped a youth player from the club and the rest of his family return to his house.

The story, which became known thanks to the information released by journalist Tato Aguilera, in charge of covering the day-to-day life of the team for TyC Sports, occurred once the Sunday morning training session was finished at the property that the Xeneize has in Ezeiza. Junior Ramírez, a soccer player who plays in the 2012 category, was going to take the bus near the AFA Campus when Medina stopped him, his parents and his sister, to catch up with them in his car. .

Medina, one of the figures of Boca Juniors in 2023 (Télam)

The highlight of the action that the Boca figure had was that he took them with his vehicle to La Boca, the neighborhood where Junior and the rest of his family live. Precisely, the one who took the photo of the moment was the little soccer player’s father. “This kid does everything well” and “He doesn’t forget his origins,” were some of the messages that the fans wrote to highlight the solidarity act that one of the strongholds of the La Ribera club had.

Looking ahead to the duel against Verdao, it is assumed that the midfielder will play from the start in La Bombonera. After starting as a starter in the 3-0 win against Central Córdoba in Santiago del Estero, Medina entered the rotation and did not start the game against Granate: he entered at the beginning of the second half and played the second 45 minutes of the match which ended tied 1-1 with goals from Lucas Janson and Leandro Díaz.

Faced with this scenario, Almirón will have to decide how he will form the team for the first semifinal against the Brazilians. One of the possibilities is that he will once again play with a line of three defenders – Figal, Rojo and Valentini – added to the two flying full-backs – Fabra on one side and the other is a mystery – to populate the middle of the field. It is presumed that Pol Fernández and Valentín Barco will be there from the start, so it will be necessary to see if the other place among the midfielders will be for Equi Fernández or if the coach will bet on a starting eleven with greater offensive power. This means that Boca could play with another striker in the attack.

2023-09-25 12:36:00
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