2023-11-30 07:42:06
Football curiosities
Junior’s scorer reached 12 goals in the League and Valderrama can give us the lottery number.
Carlos Valderrama and Carlos Bacca.
Photo: Junior from Barranquilla
By:
Futbolred Editorial
November 30, 2023, 02:41 p.m. m.
Without Carlos Bacca it may not have been possible for Atlético Junior to have qualified for the semi-finals of the BetPlay II League; and without his goals, possibly the shark would have no mathematical chance of being a finalist for group A, although it seems an almost impossible feat to achieve.
With this Wednesday’s goal, in the 1-1 draw once morest Águilas Doradas on date 4 of quadrangular A, Bacca Ahumada reached 12 goals in League II, so he completes 14 scores in the second half of 2023, adding the 2 which he scored in the BetPlay Cup.
And to think that many doubted his hierarchy, especially considering that before starting the second part of the year he did not have the confidence of the then coach Hernán Darío Gómez, who had told him that he was not the first option in the attack. Bacca stayed and earned his space to become important once more.
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But there was someone who backed him with a closed eye; that he asked for an opportunity for Bacca and defended the scorer, it was Carlos the ‘Pibe’ Valderrama, symbol of Junior and Colombian football.
In June, before starting the championship, the mythical ’10’ of the shark, in dialogue with the program ‘Espacio Rejado’, by journalist Hollman Feliciano, ventured to launch a sentence, a prediction regarding what Bacca would do in Junior.
“You know what, I’m going to make it public, look carefully at what I’m going to say, because I’m going to commit myself, if Carlos Bacca plays, if they let him play, he’ll score 12 goals, and I’ll fall short. Look what I’m saying. If Carlos Bacca plays, be careful, if he plays, in Junior now in the six months he scores 12 goals. If he plays! Yes he plays! Because then I don’t want them to tell me this and that, because if he doesn’t play obviously he’s not going to score goals. But if he plays, he scores 12 goals,” said Valderrama.
Bacca scored 12 goals in the League, and every time he scored, Junior did not lose. He has two games left to add more points to his tally; but above all, he looks for the miracle in the home runs.
The forward thanked ‘Pibe’ for the blind trust he had in him at the beginning of the semester… He missed asking for the lottery number.
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