A Blue cross It is known as the team with the ‘bad eye’ when it comes to attracting foreigners. There are plenty of examples of footballers who arrived with a lot of poster, but who went on to expand the list of foreign failures after months. Juan Escobar He is one of the few who has broken the rule, and in one of his best moments at the club, he returns all the love and support he has received from fans with a declaration of love: I am a blue cross of the crib.
Arrived from Sportivo Luqueño in what has been his first and only experience outside of Paraguay. Since his arrival, he has taken over the right wing of the team, and in this new stage Juan Reynoso in command, he has alternated his quarters glued to a position he knows from the start: center-back.
“As a boy my idol was Roque Santa Cruz …”, Escobar confesses in an interview for Marca Claro when asked about his scoring ‘gene’ that exploded in it ProtectorsDe Guaraní is one of the team’s top scorers in this tournament (2), and since his arrival at La Noria he has already scored six goals, a figure that compares the total of his notes in his five years in the Paraguay League (5).
“I’ll be honest, I’m doing things right, but I’m not confident that this is my best moment because it’s physically difficult for me”, more modestly expresses one of the blue team players who accumulated the most minutes on the field. With 891 minutes this semester, the Villa Elisa-born player is the second outfield player in Cruz Azul with the most playing time on his feet, surpassed only by his defensive counterpart, Julio Domínguez (900).
“I am a Cruzzulino by birth, I will always be with this team no matter what. These colors are coming together, I felt the affection and I’m going to try to achieve what the fans want so badly, it will be nice when we achieve it ”., concluded the conversation with the defender-back, who has become one of the key architects of La Maquina’s good moment, a side on the verge of equalizing its historic record of consecutive victories in the Liga MX.