After 19 years, the Uruguayan Junior goalkeeper, Sebastián Viera, will once once more face his father -Mario- in the friendly match that this Wednesday the shark group will play, in Trujillo, once morest the Carlos Mannucci, team led by Viera dad.
This was recalled by the junior captain in the press conference prior to the game that he gave on the followingnoon of this Tuesday.
“I haven’t faced my father 19 years ago, I faced him at the age of 20 when he directed Danubio and I with Nacional, in a Uruguayan championship final. Now we have a nice opportunity in a friendly match”, said the 39-year-old goalkeeper.
Mario Viera is a coach with a long history in Peruvian soccer, where he has led clubs such as Universidad César Vallejo, Unión Comercio, Cienciano, Comerciantes Unidos, Sport Boys, Ayacucho, UTC and Alianza Atlético. In the Carlos Mannucci assumed in November of the previous year.
Viera father went to the Trujillo airport to receive his rival in the call ‘Tricolor Night’. There he was confused in a big hug with his son Sebastián and with the striker Carlos Bacca.
The match once morest Carlos Mannucci will start at 8:00 pm, in the Mansiche stadium, in dispute of the Upao Cup.
It will be Junior’s second preparation game in Peruvian territory. On Sunday they fell 2-1 once morest Alianza Lima, at the Matute stadium.
“We arrived at the match once morest Alianza with four training sessions following a month and a half of vacation. We felt a bit strange because we did not have the distance, nor the speed, nor the agility. We hope to show a better face than once morest Alianza and that this tour will be good for us”, assured Viera.
The technician Arturo Reyes He also attended the press conference and was confident that, once morest Carlos Mannucci, his team would show a better face.
“We believe that we are going to improve, training following training, game following game and we hope that we can see a better version of Junior than the one we saw in the first game”, said the samario helmsman, who was asked regarding the topic of fashion in Colombia: the possible arrival of Juan Fernando Quintero to Junior.
“It would be very important for us if he might arrive, the managers are talking with him and he is a player who would help us a lot for what we think. That is an issue that the directive must resolve with the player, in a matter of hours it must be resolved. If he arrives, the most important thing is that he joins as soon as possible and we can start working with him and if not, this is a club that is always fighting for the first places and is going to try to strengthen its roster as it has always done.” .
Finally, Reyes gave his opinion on the game that Junior will play in March once morest Deportes Tolima looking to access the group stage of the South American Cup.
“We are going to face a very strong rival in recent years in Colombia like Tolima, especially as a visitor, in a single game. We believe that we can play a good game and give junior players entry to the group stage of the Copa Sudamericana”.
