2023-07-13 20:41:03
The match on date 24 of the Professional League tournament that ended tied at zero between Colón and Belgrano, played at the Sabalero stadium on Monday, July 10, was not another game in the life of the central marker Matías Moreno (19). , because the youth had his first minutes in the superior team of the Alberdi club.
The defender who had gone to the substitute bench for the first time in the match with Platense on May 25 and which ended in a 1-0 defeat, had to wait until this week to be able to enjoy his first official match with the main team.
“The older ones talked to me a lot and the coach told me to play like always. That he do it calmly ”, were the first words of the defender.
Moreno arrived in Belgrano at the age of 13 to join the youth teams of the Cordovan Football League. He came from playing in “Esfut”, a soccer school in the Poeta Lugones neighborhood: “I came to do a test and I stayed. There I started playing in LCF and in seventh grade they promoted me to the AFA team. Later, when I was sixth grader, we didn’t play because of the pandemic and I competed again in fifth grade.”
Since the Reserve has played the Projection tournament, together with Mariano Troilo they are a large defense (both are over 1.90 meters tall) and they come from playing together in youth.
“I had to join the team right in the middle of this streak (I had come from five losses in a row away from Alberdi). We went to look to cut it and the goal was to keep our goal at zero and it was achieved ”he said about the game against Sabalero.
The first ball of the game in the “Cementerio de los Elefantes” was for the Cordovan to gain confidence: “It happened to me that two or three minutes went by and the ball did not reach me and that was killing me (he smiles), but I was sure that when it arrived, everything was going to work out well for me and it did”.
Matías Moreno celebrates one of his goals in the Reserve match. He embraced his dream as a youth and today he makes it come true (Belgrano Press)
A smile on her lips, she listens to the questions and tries not to let her nerves get the better of her when giving an answer. He knows that the anxiety of the debut has passed and that he may have a new chance against San Lorenzo on Sunday for the date 25, since the starter, Nicolás Meriano, suffered a hamstring tear that sidelines him until the Copa de la League.
“The line of five is comfortable for defenders because the mark makes it easier for them to cover you behind. It is a system that gives you more opportunity to let go of the ball ”, he continues.
With the 40 on his number, Moreno jumped onto the field and assures that his mind was set on “my family, who have made a great effort to accompany me since I was a child. When Guille (Farré) stopped the team I was surprised, but at the same time it gave me motivation and I really wanted to take advantage of this opportunity”.
The catchphrase for any youth is that one must be “always ready for when it’s your turn” and Moreno confirms it: “I knew it could arrive at any time. One comes, trains with Primera and then returns to play with Reserva. That is when it must be shown that for some reason they raised you. Take advantage of the friction with players from another category and with more hierarchy. Luckily when it was my turn I was ready”.
With Diego Novaretti (38) as a benchmark in his position, the defender assured that the Reserve is “important to be ready” because it is a “very even and complicated” competition.
Matías Moreno arrived in Belgrano six years ago dreaming that he could be a soccer professional, today he already had his first minutes in the main team and is committed to continuing in the 11.
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