2023-04-18 09:00:00
Acquiring “immortality” will never depend on one’s own plane of existence, but will be validated along the way and in the unique and relevant class, to finally transcend beyond time.
Ángel Francisco Travesino went through all the strata of idolatry, admiration, teaching and friendship. That boy who dreamed of being like him and who hung from the fence to celebrate his goals in the ’70s and ’80s, when he grew up he took his own children to the soccer school where one of the greatest soccer scorers region of its entire history, told its best kept secrets. Not only to be a good footballer, but also to be a better person.
‘El Nene’, that’s how he baptized his little school, that’s how the world of football knew him and that’s how he will be remembered for eternity.
Angel’s flight and perpetuity. The journey that the striker undertook yesterday forever was reflected on all social networks and in each of these testimonials there was nothing but thanks and gratitude. And there was the Nene, with both arms raised for a celebration that was his personal seal, and also posing with the boys from his little school. For many, more than a teacher. Almost a second father.
One of the posts. “When I was 10 years old, one day they invited me to the Nene’s little school. First practice and he says to me: ‘what do you like to play?’ Seeing Riquelme every weekend I tell him: ‘out of 10’. Immediately followingwards he tells me: ‘well from now on you play 2, you’ll thank me later’. Today I thank him, and not because of a football issue, but because of the teaching of that moment, of learning and listening, but above all the values that he transmitted to us ”.
The beginning of everything. Travesino was a kid when he arrived in Roca from a San Luis town of 600 inhabitants that bears the name of the Far West. “What Arizona do you come from?, they asked me. From St. Louis, I told them, with a cowboy accent.the Nene revealed between laughs to “Black river” in an interview in 2015 with Gilberto Machado Gómez, one of his staunchest rivals on the field who later life would lead them to be great friends.
El Nene was the number 9 of the first historical formation of Deportivo Roca following its foundation in 1974, and with his meter seventy-something he moved very comfortably in that land of giants that is the area of a soccer field. Astute, lucid and handsome, Travesino managed to always be where he needed to be. This is how he forged himself as a lethal scorer for that orange team in training and was also the first idol for many boys at that time.
Tributes must be made while he is alive and it was so that Cacho Lobello, the legendary rock musician with his band Buscados Vivos, he decided to exalt his memory as a kid shouting, through wire fences, the unforgettable goal of Travesino once morest the Argentine National Team at the Luis Maiolino stadium.
That moment of unforgettable passion, Lobello honored him with a song called simply “El Nene” and that in its first sentence perhaps contains the author’s noble feeling and without an expiration date. “Dreams, crazy, eternal and challenging, mine, curious, passion of rolling love…”.
“Black river” He knew how to record that tribute to Travesino in a clip that he called ‘Meeting in the underground’ and this chronicler, at the generous request of Lobello, had the honor of recounting the goal that Nene scored once morest Loco Gatti on March 2, 1977, and which opens the topic in question.
All this and more Travesino left in his passage through this world, and those voices that are heard in his last hour are the ones that finally elevate him to eternity today.
Yesterday Nene took his goals to that place where perhaps we will all go. Wherever you are, shout it out loud, Nene, as always. And with your arms raised, that this battle, even though you are no longer with us, there is no doubt that you won it.
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