With the final return between Independiente Medellín and Santa Fe at the Atanasio Girardot stadium, the first Betplay League of the calendar year with the Cardinal Club as a champion, so the tenth star was embroidered in the rojiblanco shield as a visitor.
The match, with an incredible frame that collected more than 44,000 fans within the maximum scenario of the Antioquia, left, among many other things, in addition to the football, several important anecdotes. One of them was that of a Santa Fe fan who infiltrated to see his team play.
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This young man, identified in social networks like Deibby Sáenz, became viral after having documented his experience as an infiltrator in the stadium through several videos, by witnessing his champion team, but unable to celebrate for fear of being lynching, risking his life.
And this is not about colors, equipment or disrespecting the other – as the expert analysts have said in different spaces – in Colombia there is still “culture and values” to accept a person with the shirt of another team within the same football stadium.
That is why after giving viral, this young Bogota, also described in social networks as a traveling man, business, model and even fashion designer, sent him a message of “admiration, respect and peace” to the fans of the Medellín and in general to Colombian football.
This is how this fan lived and told his experience in the Atanasio Girardot
In the middle of an interview recorded on video by Tiktok’s account South American.golthis fan and lover of football in general, he told all his experience after having infiltrated the Atanasio Girardot stadium to see the final of his team. There he told all his experience.
“It was a very beautiful thing. Surely if they already saw the video in the networks and emotions that Vivo was because he had never lived them. While it is true that he had already gone to other special matches as in the monumental with River, in Brazil, Catar, Russia, also watching the selection. Let’s say that the viral of the video was for that emotion so genuine of cry Deibby.
Given the feeling of not being able to scream or celebrate the goals of his team as he wore Medellín’s shirt, the young traveler said that promptly that “had already lived”, and that it is something that knows how to “control.”
“I had already lived. Let’s say that is one of the emotions that I have known how to control. I have been in stadiums with 90 thousand people and I only at that time and shout a goal and all the other fans of the other team, so you have to look for the time to celebrate and when not. And this was a time when I knew it could not be,” he said.
And he added that, “this experience has led me to face these situations in a mature way. At a time of the game, a boy about 15 meters away celebrated the second goal and then realized and said as: ‘Shit, I screwed up’, covering my mouth. Then the experience has helped me control that. I have been in other“ boilers ”of football as a visitor”.
“Admiration and respect” for Medellín’s fans
Likewise, the young man sent a message to all the fans of Medellín and also highlighted the same fans as “the ones who shout the most throughout the country”, referring to his ability to encourage the team throughout the game.
“I think she is the fans who shout the most in the country. That is, you are inside a stadium and the echo of the cry is listened to impressively. I have heard the fans of Junior, Millionaires, National, Santa Fe, who also encourages hard, but the fans of the Medellin is different. My respect for the Medellin fans,” said Sáenz.
At the end of the interview, the Bogotano answered the large number of criticisms that have emerged against him for putting on the shirt of another team, in this case that of the DIM to be able to enter the stadium and according to him, this is “normal”, since he likes to collect and put soccer shirts regardless of whoever.
“Whenever I travel around the world, I try to buy the shirt – I am very football,” you saw? I am in Russia, Catar, Italy, then as what a place I visit, place from which I buy the shirt for the memory. If you see in my networks, there are more than 53 countries and always related to football, I buy the shirt, “he said.
In this way, he said that when he put on Medellín’s shirt he did it with a lot of “respect” to the team, city and swollen, feeling that it was normal to have put on the shirt of another club other than his. He even said he had one of Greece similar to that of Millionaires and still uses it normally.
“I do not care to place it if it is blue or something, the most important thing is respect. I bought this shirt out of respect for the city, out of respect for Medellín, a nice memory that had left, but it is more than everything to show that we have to live football in another way. With respect, admiration and not with what they show us that we have to kill ourselves by a shirt. I respect all the fans, but nothing happens if you do not happen if you do that? Stadium, ”he concluded.
So far, one of Deibby’s videos already has more than 3 million reproductions, so that in addition, to be able to live this experience with his team of visitors, he promotes football in peace on the courts of Colombia.
“You have to live football in peace and here an ambassador, to see football in another way, we have to learn to live it in another way and when that happens, we will see more families in the stadium enjoying this beautiful sport,” he concluded.
This fact generated divided opinions, since although some reproached that “she risked” his life and put on the shirt of another team, others supported him for having lived something that “unfortunately” cannot be experienced in the stages of Colombia.
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