Atlético Bucaramanga put an end to its tragedy, to that habit of losing and losing again. 75 years of defeats ended and the muffled and contained cry of five generations of leopards broke out. Champion, champion, champion!
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The final against Santa Fe was an intense psychological battle under the storm due to the flips on the scoreboard, for being down, for being up, for suffering a goal against at the beginning, for suffering in the end the Santa Fe comeback that stretched the heart to its maximum tension in penalties.
75 years is undoubtedly a long, long time, but the 15 minutes that the 14-penalty shootout lasted, until that ball that goalkeeper Aldair Quintana saved from Julián Millán, were eternal. Truly, they were eternal, but happy.
Bucaramanga champion
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Bucaramanga won as it had to: Santander style, man!: its players were brave, brave. With the score at 0-1, which equaled the final that they started winning at home 1-0, They imposed their football and regional temperament to face adversity.
Bucaramanga then rolled up the sleeves of his shirt and with a football of handsome, strong, macho, bending his back; With his direct, frank, dry and sharp playing language he turned the score 1-2 with the goals of his beasts, those leopards that look like panthers: Córdoba and Mosquera. But the game got even hotter, no joke: on the ground that in some areas was mud, Santa Fe came back in the last 5 minutes between the puddles, the downpour, by the 34,000 red fans in the stands roaring in despair the goal, due to Santa Fe’s rally in its goal-hungry siege: 3-2. Juepuerca, hand: to suffer on penalties!
Bucaramanga defeats Santa Fe in El Campín in the Colombian soccer final.
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Quintana, the hero
And Atlético, then, was more Bucaramanga than the roasted meat, it was more Santander than the mute and the machete, and they brought out that attitude so berraca, man. Six of his seven collectors were right. Only Flores failed.
Aldair Quintana stopped two. The paradoxical life. Rodríguez and Millán scored the goals of Santa Fe’s almost miraculous comeback, and they were the ones who missed the title penalties, the ones that the goalkeeper saved today, once again a hero.
SantaFe faces Bucaramanga, in a match valid for the 2024 BetPlay League Final, at the El Campin Stadium. Photo: Sergio Acero Yate / El Tiempo.
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his star shines much brighter for how it was achieved, for all the suffering it embodies, for the somersaults on the scoreboard, for being up, then down, for being the first to be celebrated and mourned in the name of the grandfathers and grandmothers, of the fathers and mothers, with brothers, uncles, cousins and friends who left in these 75 years without being champions.
Today, the first bucara star is in the sky held by all of them.
Santandereans, always forward, Santandereans, not one step back! What a cool title, man!
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GABRIEL MELUK
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