The peoples are not united by victories or defeats, as happened this Wednesday for some and for others. Neither their parties nor their tragedies unite them, nor do flags or hymns.
To the peoples, like the people of Pereira and Risaraldathe stories unite them, the word.
There is nothing more powerful than the story that from today is told and will be told forever and ever of the first Colombian soccer title for Deportivo Pereira, from the hands of the giant titan of Harlene Castillothe goalkeeper with huge hands who saved the final penalties in the tiebreaker against the Medellinafter the long and boring 0-0 (that no longer matters!), in the tiebreaker towards glory and immortality.
They call that enormous and enormous doorman ‘Chipi chipi’, a nickname that doesn’t seem like a nickname for an ebony colossus: they gave it to him years ago because of a resemblance to a character from a soap opera.
A story, like the one they began to tell about him and Pereira, the team – sorry, THE PEOPLE! – that at 78 years of life was finally born to eternal victory.
Soccer is that. The collection of moments, the album of the past with loved ones who are no longer here, with those who never saw the trophy raised by the hands of the captain. In the stands of the Hernan Ramirez Villegas, that stadium made decades ago just for tonight, the fans cried in infinite hugs with the intimate stranger next door, with that other identical in colors and sentiment. There were hugs that broke the death of the father and the mother, of the brother and sister, of the grandfather and the grandmother, of the uncle and the aunt, of the cousins and the cousins that in yellow and red left without feeling this glory of goal and triumph.
garcia marquez He said: “Life is not the one that was lived, but the one that one remembers and how one remembers it to tell it.” From today and forever, 500,000 inhabitants of Pereira will tell 500,000 unique and different stories. From now on and for eternity, a million laughers will begin their stories by saying that “once upon a time there was a team that never won…”. Others will narrate that “once upon a time there was a city that always lost until…”. Some will say that “once there was a colossus who was called ‘Chipi Chipi…’”. Others will start by saying that “once upon a time there was a hero named Leo Castro, the fire scorer”. Others will begin their history with the Olympic return of tears and trophy and screams, and others will begin with the shouting, the gunpowder, the whistles and the drunkenness in the streets. But it will always be said that from this Wednesday Pereira is more Pereira, more people than ever, forever and ever.
Pit Restrepo, Castillo, Ramírez, Correa, Mosquera, Zuluaga, Velásquez, Vásquez, Fory, Berrío, Castro and Muñiz They sing to them: “Hail to the efforts of my heroic and good children / who with love, gave me a name, gave me fame / made me great, give me honor.” Pereira’s anthem was written for them and for this moment!
Nothing unites a people more than a story. And Pereira already has it and already has the account.
Meluk tells him…
GABRIEL MELUK
Sports Editor
@MelukLeCuenta
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