Graduated from the Higher Institute of Social Communication Sciences. Chronicler of the Sports section of La Nueva. since October 9, 1995, specialized in soccer. Between 2002 and 2018 he covered Olimpo in the First Division. He works in television and radio. In addition, he was a member of the journalistic team of “El Diario del Mundial”, which was broadcast on La Nueva Play.
“Dear Santa Claus…” Comercial is like that child who asks for a miracle more than a gift, and no matter how hard he knows it is difficult for it to come true, there is always a good uncle or someone in the family who, in a low voice and without much fear, says in his ear: “Trust me.”
When Christmas approaches, in a large family there is usually one who thinks for everyone, like Nazareno Romero did on the Villa Miter field, who, without a sleigh or dressed in red, made his team believe that if there is effort and faith in oneself, dreaming is not as impossible as it seems. On the 9th he complied with the former’s law, scoring two great goals and the one from Puerto won the Promotion match against San Francisco.
Yes, you read that right, the runner-up in B beat the second-to-last team in A and forced another final match, on a neutral court, to define whether, for the 2026 edition of the Southern League, the green-yellow goes up or Villa Italia’s Celeste goes down.
It was a match with different nuances, with a lot of heat (at the time the fight started the thermometer read 35 degrees) and where the emotional factor, knowing what you are risking and which ends in a toast or broken glass, ended up overturning for those who felt that if they did not go into the jungle and tame the lion they would not have a tomorrow.
“Sanfra” entered the field with a 4-1-3-2 and planted the flag on offense with the idea of getting the game out of their hands, finishing the season and now starting to think about assembling the next squad. He played fast, he filtered the ball very easily into the opposing area and until White’s team settled in, the difference he made in terms of speed and hierarchy was noticeable.
An overflow by Diego Romero ended in a deadly pass to the middle and the goal by Iván Aguadiak, whose right arm bounced the ball before the definition. Referee Oscar Perotti did not see the infraction and all of Comercial erupted. There was pushing against the referee, some kicked the spare balls anywhere and the most “stung”, Mateo Silenzi, told the fourth referee (Raúl Kerman) “We’re not playing anymore, we’re retiring.”
Perotti admonished Kessler, although the most exalted one, Silenzi, the captain, did not receive a single challenge. He didn’t even show him yellow when, a while later, and after 1-1, “Mate” asked the fans not to return a ball that had gone to the stands. When it comes to killing time, a Hollywood actor.
In the midst of the crisis, from continuing to spit venom for the injustice in Agudiak’s goal, the yellow-green player was saved by Nazareno with a left-footed shot that stung Arias and hit a post.
Those led by “Cacho” Silenzi (photo) calmed the nerves, but continued playing to the limit, making everything slow and letting the minutes pass to put the “Santo” in the bag, who never reacted after the tie, neither for better nor for worse.
And something happened at half-time, because Comercial’s attitude overflowed any type of prejudice. With the backbone in full (Orozco was a wall, Giamberdino is a diamond in the rough with angelic feet and Romero has an ithaca in his left-handed boot), the visit was encouraged to be what it had not been in the initial 45 minutes.
“When we get the ball back, let’s try to play because they leave us the spaces, we can’t spend all the time thinking that they are more than us, at some point we must reveal ourselves,” was the message from the commercial coach in the locker room.
In two minutes, the white man “ate it on a hot dog.” A wall play between Nico Gómez and Naza ended in a center that Alejo Gil, emulating his father Gonzalo, pushed into the net in the middle of several legs; and immediately afterwards, Mateo Silenzi’s crack pass and Nazareno’s galactic definition.
The port chose a 5-3-2 to close the paths to a passive San Francisco, which showed no character even to protest and which little by little faded away amid its involuntary lack of reactivity.
Comercial went singing towards the dressing room area and the first thing he checked was if the letter reached Santa Claus. “Yes, don’t worry, you already have it, but there’s one more step left; you have to keep believing,” warned Nazareno, who made the cross for the “Saint” five days before Christmas. It is courage, but it is also faith…
The synthesis
San Francisco 1 (4-1-3-2)
J. Arias 4
Onorio (c) 5
Sosa 5
Leguiza 3
Bardella 4
Castellano 5
Gandolfo 5
D. Romero 5
J. Romero 6
Vega 5
Commandments 6
DT: Franco Pellegrini
Commercial 3 (4-1-3-2)
Sanhueza 6
Cards 5
Orozco 8
Giordano 6
Kessler 4
Giamberardino 7
M. Silenzi (c) 6
N. Gómez 6
Spine 6
A. Gil 7
N. ROMERO 9
DT: Gustavo Silenzi
PT. Goals from Agudiak (SF), at 9m. and N. Romero (C), at 20m.
ST. Goals by A. Gil (C), at 17m. and N. Romero (C), at 18m.
Changes. 61m. Vila (4) by J. Romero, 65m. Soto Torres (4) by J. Sosa and J. García (5) by Spanish and 78m. Sources by D. Romero, in St. Francis; 71m. P. González (5) by A. Gil, Army (5) by Kessler and B. Gómez (6) by Rachi, 75m. Arango by Gianordint and 89m. JP Colonel by M. Sienzi, in trade.
Reprimanded. Agudiak (70m.) and Soto Torres (85m.), in San Francisco; Kessler (10m.) and B. Gómez (87m.), in Commercial.
Referee. Oscar Perotti (6)
Basketball court. Villa Miter (9).
