The first months of 2021 were very uncertain for Lima Alliance, since they did not know if they would play the League 1 The League 2. The panorama seemed more discouraging when some players with whom they had closed verbal agreements since the end of 2020, gave up wearing the blue and white shirt due to the latent possibility of playing in the Second Division.
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One of those footballers was the central defender Diego Minaya, who had had a great season with Ayacucho FC in 2020The player himself even confirmed the interest of his close friends, but stressed that, at that time, playing for promotion with the Victorian institution was a coin in the air because he did not know how it would go and that is why he preferred to continue in the First Division.
“Playing in Alianza Lima is something nice for any player, but going to the Second Division is also a double-edged sword. Just as things can go well for you and return the club to the place where it deserves to be, the opposite can also happen. playing you stay with the idea of playing for promotion. For a footballer the main objective is always to be in the best league in Peru”, was what he mentioned at that time on the program ‘Toca y Pasa’.
Diego Minaya will play in Cusco FC
These statements made the Victorians desist from hiring him, so in the next few days he was announced as the new signing of Cusco FC, a squad with which he did not have very good luck in 2021, since he spent much of the campaign injured.
Adding to this, this 2022 has started off on the wrong foot because when everything made us think that Cusco FC I would play the League 1, The team of Marcelo Grioni has been sent to the Second division due to a failure of TAS, so in this year, Diego Minaya he would have to dispute the ascent with the Cusco team.
Diego Minaya was already in Alianza Lima
In 2014, Diego Minaya was one of the reinforcements that Alianza Lima hired for that season, but unfortunately he might not play any game with the blue and white shirt, since FIFA sanctioned him with 2 years without football activity for having tested positive for a doping last season.
Diego Minaya with Alianza Lima shirt
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