346 kilometers west of the city of Buenos Aires, El Triunfo is located as a quiet town that is accessed by Provincial Route 50. The little more than 1,500 inhabitants, distributed in a handful of blocks, enjoy the silence of the countryside, routine away from urgency and “a renewing calm.”
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Located in the Lincoln district, El Triunfo is, in addition to everything, a kind of refuge for Miguel Borja. The River footballer found in its streets what he needed to keep the whirlwind of his career under control, a way to oxygenate himself. A place where time seems to go at a different speed.
Felipe Gómez, owner of the FGC gunsmith mechanical workshop in El Triunfo, met Borja because a relative of his owns the house that the Colombian has rented since he arrived in River. It was he who told him that there was a place where he could be quiet, away from the noise of the city, four hours by car from the Federal Capital.
“Borja likes picnics, eating barbecue, being calm”
Borja accepted the invitation and went to see the town. He was amazed. From that moment on, every time he can – and football allows him – he gets in his car to disconnect. “He likes picnics, eating a barbecue, being calm,” Felipe tells TN.
“Borja likes picnics, eating a barbecue, being calm,” admits his friend Felipe (Photo: Casares Online).
Accustomed to knowing each other among all the inhabitants, the first day that the Colombian stepped foot in El Triunfo was burned into the memory of the locals. “When I took it for the first time it was a revolution. Something unforgettable”.
Borja and the affection of the students of the El Triunfo school
Felipe remembers that day as if he were living it now, at this moment. His visit became an event that is still talked about. The enthusiasm that was generated was such that Borja went to the school to talk to the students. He was received with a standing ovation by the students and teachers, shouting “Borja, Borja.”
Miguel Borja, with the students of the El Triunfo school (Video: Miguel Borja).
The affection that the scorer received that first day made him feel supported and that is why he also chose them. “The town is beautiful. We’re going to be calm there. “It’s what he likes,” adds Felipe, his friend, while saying that the Millonario striker likes to test his aim with compressed air weapons: “He shoots very well.”
El Triunfo, a town with open doors in summer
The YouTuber Guido Rodríguez, who travels the country to tell minimal stories from the different places in the Interior, uploaded a video to his channel (Gui 10 road) at the end of 2022 in which he shows what El Triunfo is like and in which he asks If it is perhaps the most beautiful town in Buenos Aires.
“We all know each other, it is a very family-oriented town. Older people have come in search of tranquility,” details Alfredo Fanelli, a resident born in 1946, in the same video.
But it also reveals a reality that it shares with other places in Argentina: every day there are fewer people in the town. While some, like Borja, go in search of calm, some locals turn to the big cities.
An aerial image of El Triunfo (Photo: Captura Gui 10 road).
“At the time I think the town had three thousand inhabitants, almost double what it has now. What happens is that from the rural area there has been a great exodus to the cities, in a process that has occurred throughout the country,” he says.
El Triunfo has ”1,543 inhabitants (INDEC, 2010), which represents a decrease of 1.08% compared to the 1,560 inhabitants (INDEC, 2001) of the previous census”, data from the official site of the municipality of Lincoln highlight.
The entrance to El Triunfo, the town where Miguel Borja goes (Photo: lincoln.gob.ar).
A monument to the immigrant dresses the town square, founded in 1909. Benches to sit outside the houses, bicycles without chains or locks and doors open in summer are some of the privileges that the successful have. Statistics on insecurity do not run in places like this, where there are no bars on the windows.
Village life, in some way, is different. Borja knows this better than anyone.
Miguel Borja and Felipe Gómez, in Colombia (Photo: IG @felipe_gomezcr).
2024-03-29 08:50:00
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