Roulette Russo
Boca Miguelito and again crossed. A year ago, the club and dismissed what it faces today in a final in which San Lorenzo could be champion. Is it true that football always gives rematch? For those of Ischia's also a draw.
Just a year later. Right in a final. Just against Boca.
If twelve months ago, when I left that meeting with a brief but ultimately Pedro Pompilius, which put an end to the cycle, Miguel Russo had asked him to sound a rematch, hardly would have written a script as perfect as you can close this afternoon at the stadium of Racing. Faster than flying, exactly 366 days after the announcement that no continuity, again a Dec. 20 may be a day to remember the life of the technician. Nothing less than in the second match of the triangular end of the opening, which may be the decisive one, the San Lorenzo Russo can give back to Boca in the face of his replacement Carlos Ischia. And, among other morbid condiments, the club that left him without a job late last year it may send another technician to look to try and win the Copa Libertadores that Russo did get himself in 2007.
Six-month sabbatical Miguel was taken to digest that final abrupt, unexpected, that Pompilius had in mind since long before traveling to the World Club Championship in Japan and who ran with a strong pulse back to the 16 days of his formal management as president. Before the DT awake, he could prosecute the objections to his PF Guillermo Cinquetti and arguments for the change of command, in Boca already had Carlos Ischia and Russo closed the year in silence in Punta del Este. The time was not enough to heal the wound, although never criticized the former president and only repeated that "time puts things in their place," but it was to recover the desire to return to the ring. San Lorenzo chose an upheaval following the departure of Ramon Diaz. Order to put a staff that was strengthened with very good players and gave him the aggressive style that also had its mouth. Was greeted with a good game that his team showed a good time during the tournament, suffered with the downturn that occurred with the bifes time, wept as seldom remembered by arbitration ... And the bet you could not do better. O yes. Today it looks like.
But, of course, do not ask him to pepper in his words Russo: "I try not to think about those things. I'm very positive and now my head is totally in San Lorenzo. The truth that he did not know that just on Saturday (today) is fulfilled a year of my departure from Boca, because there are dates that have a present. I do not importance, "explained the technician in the week. And the same thing, that did not take it as revenge, and who dreams of one day return to Boca, have friends who know of the dessert bar of Cafe Paris.
What leads him to take Boca facing Russo? Not much, beyond the squall that can unleash a defeat (not confirmed the continuity of Ischia), and there was already evidence of that.
When the former returned to La Bombonera, in this Open, barely heard some applause from the plateístas of preferential and took a warm embrace of Roman Riquelme. The rest, players and people, was pure indifference. And even more than indifference, there are players who do not bear him any affection. Some cartel because they played with little or nothing, others with less sheet because they did not have a place in the plan Russo.
Ischia and Russo, former and current, will again face to face right in a final. There will be no kiss and hug, a classic Pelado with every technical rival throughout the year, because if it were not there interbreeding between Boca and San Lorenzo in November, much less what will be now after the recent sharp crossing arbitrations. After the umpteenth complaint Miguelito, when the hand was bent, Carlitos picked up the gauntlet and it returned an "as is the country by blaming the other and not assume the responsibilities." And more marked differences: "If Boca does not champion, will be for our mistakes." Yesterday, above, again put distance with the complaints that were heard from
Bajo Flores (p. 6).
Today, in 1830 and in the stadium of Racing, just one year after the start, you write the final chapter of this story of love and hatred.
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