The ANFA Chillán stadium was dressed up on Saturday evening, to host three pending, scary and heart-stopping finals of the 2023 Amateur Football Closing Tournament.
The party was total, with good football, massive attendance from the public and good behavior of the fans who cheered on their teams.
Carnival in Rosita
First thing in the morning, the Unión Española U16 series confirmed its great work in the seedbed by lifting the champion’s cup following beating its counterpart Deportivo Lucero 5-0, appealing to a base of players, who went through the U-16 National Team. 17 from Chillán, who competed in the recent National Youth Ñuble 2024, as is the case of Carlos Fernández and Gustavo Muñoz.
The Hispanics were a steamroller on the synthetic grass of the Río Viejo Complex stadium and demonstrated all their offensive potential to unleash a carnival in the Rosita O’Higgins town.
Finally Advance
The Avance sub-18 team got rid of a thorn following several lost finals and gave tremendous joy to their faithful albiverde fans, who took over one of the side galleries of the official grandstand sector of the ANFA stadium.
Luis Oñate’s team, following equalizing with Roberto Mateos, took the title of the category in a dramatic penalty shootout, where the figure was goalkeeper Nicolás Torres, who, when the shootout continued one by side, since in the series of five ended tied, he made a historic save to give the crown to his club.
“The key was the unity and sacrifice of the group and the families, training even in the rain. I thank God, my mother, my family, my wife, my children, my father-in-law, whose health is complicated, he always asked me how things went. To my friend Eduardo Cares, to “Letal” from Cruz Azul, to ‘Talo’ and ‘Dieguito’ who have always trusted me and the series they have given me, I have won as champion. To Tomy, a boy from the new school, who I saw crying the other day, but I told them that this title would be for them. I thank each of my pupils, my friend ‘Toto’, the entire bar and all the people at Avance. Now we want to win the Regional,” said Luis Oñate, coach of the Avance champion team, excitedly.
Star shines
And in honor series, he celebrated the unstoppable honor series of Deportivo Lucero, which following its recent fourth place in the Zonal of champion clubs in Talca and projecting its participation in the Chile Cup, lifted the cup following beating Chillán Viejo 2-1.
The two goals for the Luis Cruz Martínez Población team were the work of former Ñublense striker, Karim Desfadur. First, with a tight penalty shot to the right of the goalkeeper and then with a shot that slipped in at an impossible angle for the goalkeeper of the Chillanvejano team.
Desfadur, idol of the Lucero fans, shouted for them from the bottom of his heart and celebrated with his daughter the achievement of a new title with Deportivo Lucero, which will now prepare its participation in the Regional Cup and the dreamed of, Copa Chile.
The faithful and tireless Lucero bar celebrated with everything this new joy that gave them the golden series of the club that continues to make history.
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