The Atlante will try to enjoy the honey of the title when they face Jaiba Brava de Tampico in the second leg of the Expansion League final. True to its habit, the Barça team arrives with good football, but with a degree of grief and color, as its long history dictates. And that quality is evident from the story of Luis García, one of the team’s scorers and who walked a Stations of the Cross to be part of the Colts and is about to dedicate today.
The Iron Colts were a roster of 28 players within days of the Expansion League kick-off. Luis García had canceled his contract with Alebrijes and he saw a great opportunity to play with the capital’s team, so he didn’t hesitate to ask Mario García for a chance., DT of the azulgranas and who he already knew.
“I spoke to teacher Mario when I heard he was going to be the team’s coach. I was on vacation because I had canceled my contract with Alebrijes and he told me he thought I was going to continue in Alebrijes, so he didn’t let me consider because he already had his eight eldest but was still waiting, ” Garcia recalled in an interview with Mediotiempo.
The problems Atlante had to form the squad they opened a quota for an older player and it was where fate put Luis Arcadio in the path of the Colts. “A week and a half later the teacher called me back and told me that a place had become available and that I had to go to Mexico City. Without thinking, I immediately left”.
Nominated for best goal
When his career seemed lost, the chance at Atlante saved him and he took advantage of it. In the nominations for the best goal of the season In the Expansion League, there is the one that García Bañuelos marked Correcaminos on the last day, where he took advantage of a long clearance from Gansito Hernández to finish over the goalkeeper.
“It was a very nice goal, It was a play where Licha (Lizandro Echevarría) was yelling at me and I was already blinded and it didn’t go the way I thought: but luckily I could define myself above the goalkeeper. It was on the last day of play and that goal helped us finish second and gave me more confidence for the Liguilla ”, he acknowledged.
He fondly remembers the Orozco check
Although García is close to the title today with Atlante, his football career has left him many memories. When Ezequiel Orozco’s (ex-player who died of cancer in 2018) health problems started, Luis was his partner in Murcielagos. He still fondly remembers all the teachings he left him as a person.
“I arrived at the tournament when Check started with low back pain and all the problems and I had to visit him. These were very difficult moments, we remember him as a great person. He was a simple, humble and charismatic person. When I arrived they gave me the number 27 he had and when I went to Loros I gave him the number back. No one could have imagined that someone like Check, who had an impressive body, would happen to himHe remembered.
The fact is, you don’t have to worry.