In Colombia “cucho” is the term that young people use to refer to older people, fathers or mothers. With Juan Camilo Hernández Suárez It was seen that it was going to be mature from a very young age. The nickname assumed it when he turned eight … years but not with that meaning, but for an anecdote. One day his parents raised his hair and went to his team. His coach told him that he looked like Cuchu Cambiasso And there he stayed. He was born in the neighborhood of Las Mercedes de Pereira in April 1999 and his parents, Néstor and Yanet, they saw that their only son could follow in the footsteps of his great hobby: football. They had met in an amateur microfúting tournament, in which the father’s team was champion and the mother was the top scorer. They wore the boy with Pereira T -shirts, Once Caldas, Real Madrid And the Colombian team and completed it with guayos (boots) to be perfectly equipped since the age of two, when they began to see conditions kicking a ball, although he liked to do it barefoot. Today you saw him Nike. He grew as a good student but with the aim of getting out of poverty as a professional footballer. And the new signing of Betis You can say that you have managed to get sleepy in a career that has returned to LaLiga.
Like so many other children, at five years he entered a football school in his city and was growing up to a Risaralda team, where he caught attention for his little stature since he always played with older children. It was good in the studies but focused on sports activity and their parents gave him above all Rice, egg and fried potato, your favorite foodto grow healthy and strong and with fourteen years he already gave the stretch to 1.75 that measures now, with a small foot (number 40). Every Sunday the family plan was to see Cucho in the three teams in which he played at the same time. His father never wanted to work out but the bet was his son’s career and devoted himself to the sale of fruit pulp, he was used as a gardener in other houses, he sold eggs, chicken, meat … and was an amateur referee .
In that last role one of the key anecdotes in the history of Cucho lived. He had already been the player with his father with his father doing tests in National But they did not want him to stay to live alone in Medellín, he continued in the Pereira of his city and with fifteen years he debuted in the first team. He had to change his routines to continue studying and even went to another school to do so at night. In the dynamics of the elderly he received a lot of veterans like Battiste, who left him boots to play. Hernán Lisi He had seen him and pulled him despite his precocity. And his first goal came. He had to play in Floridablanca against Real Santander and his father could not attend because I exercised arbitrating Fans matches to earn some money. He managed to continue the game with A small radio While he was whistling the match that corresponded until Cucho marked and hit a cry that stopped the match he was running. It was September 2015.
A year later it already stood out (he scored 20 goals in the Second Colombian Division), he took gallons wearing the Dorsal 10 and was captured by Norman Cappuzzo as agent, who quickly managed his sale to the GrenadeFor two million euros. He could not go to Spain until he turned 18 and was ceded to América de Cali, with which he scored four goals in 17 games. Granada descended before the rights to Watford, of the same group, who gave the player to Huesca, in second, where he had a coach, Ruby And partial Chimy Ávila. He entered with good foot and his first goal scored on August 26, 2017 against Lorca. Then he made fifteen more and was key to the rise of the Oscense team. Already in the first could do Goals at Camp Nou and Santiago Bernabéu. He was the youngest Colombian player to premiere in LaLiga.
Had highlighted in the South American and the U20 World Cup but finally its first absolute internationality came with Colombia In October 2018, scoring two goals against Costa Rica and its new assignment in First, this time to Mallorca in 2019-20. He was injured a while but he gave time to score several goals, one of them against Betis, in a season conditioned by the Covid and for the final descent of his team. From there he left, again ceded by the Watford, to the Getafe where with Bordalás he had an intermittent prominence. The following year he left for Watford, with which he made five goals in 23 games in the Premier and was transferred to Columbus Crew of the mls.
Cucho and his arrival at Betis
In the United States he has uncovered as one of the stars of his league and as a relentless scorer: 58 goals in 94 gameschampion of the CUP leagues and the MLS Cup and second best player of the tournament in 2024 after Messi. He has made history in his club as he is the fifth maximum historical scorer and leaves as a legend only with 25 years, when Betis has paid thirteen million for his services. Now his father can add the Verdiblanca shirt to the museum he has at home with balls, boots and other elements that review his son’s sports career, whose aspiration is now to return with his selection for the 2026 World Cup (there is enormous competition in The lead with Luis Díaz, Jhon Córdoba, Jhon Jader Durán or Santos Borré) after leaving a mark on a Betis that has seriously bet on his services for the striker of the coming years understanding the context he has around: Titor Roque It is yielded and Bakambu It ends in 2026. The Cucho contract until 2030 expresses the intention of the club to make the Colombian its offensive banner in the next campaigns.
In Verdiblanco you can carry the number 17 or 19, something that is yet to be decided. Your first Cicerone will be Chimy Ávilawith whom he maintains an excellent relationship. He also drew very good connection with Álvaro Ladrón de GuevaraVerdiblanco technical secretary, with whom he agreed professionally in his early years in Spain. Today he will arrive in Seville and will be presented in the afternoon with Antony. It is expected that I travel to Vigo to make pineapple with the team but it is normal for its premiere to be before the Real Sociedad in the next duel at Benito Villamarín.
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