In memory of Carmen Robertson and Ernesto Roth, her parents.
Two weeks ago, while they were having lunch at six in the evening in a restaurant in San Isidro, a TV call distracted them. She said, with a voice that was harangue and commercial: On June 13 we are all Peru! What passed as a post-work conversation, without WhatsApp or pending, without status zoom or emails to answer, gradually became a locker room chat in Videna, as if they, Miguel Montalvo Robertson and Steffi Roth were not two industrial engineers with an ultra-charged agenda but two young elements who are training to defend the country in a playoff, that battle without violence or bullets and with streamers. What was a projection about his December vacation turned into a update about what they needed to accomplish to travel to Doha, the city of Qatar where this Monday the peruvian national team faces Australia (1 pm) with the sole mission of winning and thus getting the ticket to world cup 2022, the sixth in its history. And make victory our gratitude.
I don’t imagine it but I saw it, while I was also having lunch and doing calculations, watching CTS and googling travel agencies, and I see them again now, while they, Miguel and Steffi, two fans of the national team like few others, make a stopover in Miami to arrive in the city for red and white shirts for Monday’s repechage, and they write to me that they are almost there, that they are here. And I see them happy, the panoramic smiles, surrounded by so many of those uniforms that they take care of like nobody else, in a hidden place in Lima, in what is the most important collection of shirts in the history of the bicolor that exists in the country.
In this first 7-minute video report prepared by the audiovisual team of El Comercio and DT everyone will be able to know their story. They met at university and fell in love following the selection. And that, since then, the final of the Copa América 2019, they have not been separated anymore. That love between them was an accomplice to their passion for shirts and today, the young engineers Miguel Montalvo and Steffi Roth have become the biggest collectors of the uniforms of the beloved Blanquirroja. More than 2000 pieces that they preserve as a treasure. All the jackets since the 1930s. This is their wonderful story told in this special report by DT El Comercio.