2024-03-02 13:44:24
Josef Martínez has become one of the nomadic footballers of Venezuelan football. He is now known to be in Canada, at Montreal FC, thus completing the sixth country on his journey through universal geography. No details have arrived regarding the reasons for the Valencia-born player’s jumps, but with just a few days left we see him changing shirts and nations.
With his skills, with his abilities developed due to his small stature, Josef has been scoring goals wherever he has gone. From Venezuela and his dazzling performances with Caracas he arrived at Young Boys in Switzerland, went to TC Thon in the same country, went to Italy to play for Torino, to the United States with Atlanta United, Miami International and now, aiming more to the north, to the Canadian city in which French is the predominant language…
The Venezuelan has had all the baggage to be a star. He has liked every position, he has been an undisputed striker, but apart from his years with Atlanta he has lived in the ups and downs with which football usually punishes many of his players. In Switzerland as in Italy he has been like this: today a great player, tomorrow on the bench.
He arrived in the United States in 2017 and was chosen as a member of the ideal team, so that in 2018 he was the scoring king and Most Valuable of Major League Soccer. He all this boom with Atlanta United until he reached the Miami team, where his star faded, despite having teamed up with Lionel Messi. There he was not taken into account by the media, illuminated as they were with the Argentine star.
We will have to wait for his life on the Canadian courts and not think that Josef Martínez, who will turn thirty-one years old next May, has begun to slide down the slide of the fall…
Last weekend and while we were in line to enter the cinema, a boy in front of us, also ready to cross the dark door of the theater, made us think. He was wearing an Argentine national team shirt with the number 10 on the back. But it wasn’t Messi’s 10; No, it was Diego Armando Maradona’s 10. And that was what it said on his shirt: “Maradona.”
It caught our attention because the cult for the great player came to mind, the treatment that his country has given throughout this time to a different idol, who went beyond football to take root in the popular soul and not only because his humble origins and his arrival at the top, but for having been, symbolically and for his feat in the 86 World Cup in Mexico in the match once morest the English, an emblem of Argentine rage in the fight for the Malvinas Islands.
See you there.
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