2023-12-16 07:30:34
Camilo Charria went to the United States to search for the “American dream”, tired of the nightmare of football. “He gave up because he didn’t find support, the teams he was on didn’t want to take him into account anymore,” says his brother Humberto ‘Beto’ Charria.
As every heartbreak begins with a great love, that of this 24-year-old player, in his beginnings, grew stronger in Real Academia Maracaneiros and in the Bogotá national team. He demonstrated his passion with 13 goals in the national tournament of the under-17 category and following achieving a runner-up finish he was flirted with from Santa Fe.
With the cardinal’s shirt he scored a goal once morest Unión Magdalena and stood out in the memorable match in which Ronaldinho put on the lion’s skin in 2019. “Everyone has wanted to play alongside the best in the world,” Camilo told the channel. official of Santa Fe, that meeting ended on October 17 of that year in El Campín.
However, the Santafero idyll ended very quickly. Harold Rivera, the team’s coach at that time, did not take it into account. “At that time I had competition for that position from Jefferson Duque, Michael Balanta and Federico Anselmo, we wanted him to go to Tigres to mature a little more and return,” said the former Cardinal coach.
Camilo Charria played in Santa Fe.
“Neither Harold Rivera nor Jersson González took it into account, because he was also testing himself in America. The president of Santa Fe, Eduardo Méndez, did not let him leave when another team was going to acquire him. They belittled my son, they told him that he didn’t know how to play this game,” says his father, Humberto Charria.
Camilo’s goal was not opened, as required in his position; The door, once once more, closed, this time permanently. “There was nothing else to do. They gave him money and he was a free player,” said his father.
Tired of losing every game he played to stand out professionally, he went to the United States. “He emigrated to look for work, following a while they gave him his papers. He went to an aunt, I placed him in a job as a warehouse assistant,” says his brother Beto.
Camilo Andrés Charria, one of those arrested in the gang that robbed homes in Miami Dade. | Photo: El País
Living in Miami and earning dollars, he risked everything for his people. However, and according to his father and his brother, he never sent extra money or raised suspicions of doing things wrong.
On December 10, unexpected news reached the Charria family. When they were waiting for Camilo’s call from outside, a voice on the other end of the line reported that he had been captured for alleged robbery.
“If someone had reached out to him, we wouldn’t be here right now. Football, like life, is regarding contacts. Maybe we didn’t rub shoulders with the people who were needed,” commented his brother. According to the initial report, Camilo was found with five other men and a woman entering a home to rob. The gang was caught flagrante delicto. “It was devastating, we mightn’t believe it. Camilo has not had any fight, conflict or judicial record,” said the former athlete’s brother.
Camilo grew up in Ciudad Bolívar. His football was street football, neighborhood football. He had that talent that is found in vulnerable places where many young people escape violence, vices and poverty by playing sports.
As a man who respects the law, Humberto Charria does not ask that his son be absolved. He waits for judgment and condemnation. “He has talent and magic. I hope they rehabilitate him like he did with Wilder Medina and that he can debut once more,” he said.
This soccer player and his accomplices will have to answer before the American justice system for charges of residential theft, grand theft and resisting arrest. In addition, a radio switch was found for them to divert Police communications and commit the robbery without complications. Football broke Camilo’s heart for the few opportunities it gave him, but Camilo also did it with his best team: the family.
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