The eventual blue reinforcement that won Lionel Messi a bike

One of the eventual reinforcements of Universidad de Chile, Hernán Galíndez, has a particular history with none other than Lionel Messi. The Argentine goalkeeper nationalized Ecuadorian grew up in Rosario, was a neighbor of the trans-Andean star of Paris Saint Germain and even keeps a precious recording where he won a bicycle by winning a final against the “Flea”. Galíndez comes to meet again with an old acquaintance. The goalkeeper of the Catholic University of Ecuador would have everything arranged with the U to put himself in charge of the Colombian Santiago Escobar, who was his coach in the Ecuadorian league. The 34-year-old goalkeeper has already said goodbye to his former club and will arrive as an Ecuadorian national team and referring to a dressing room that is being restructured in the secular team. In an interview with Argentina’s Olé newspaper, when Ecuador was facing the Trans-Andeans for the Qualifiers heading to Qatar 2022, Galíndez had been nominated by coach Gustavo Alfaro and told how he met Messi in the neighborhoods of Rosario. We were both from the south, we lived more or less nearby. We faced each other in all the finals, I have some DVD of having won a game, but almost always he won, “said the next blue goalkeeper. In addition, Galíndez said that, in a tournament organized by a club from Rosario, the champion was given ten bicycles instead of trophies. “There we played seven against seven, on grass. I was cutting for Estrella Juniors. I got the final and we were able to beat them. I have a DVD that corroborates that I faced the monster,” he said. In addition, in the attack they are still looking for names to replace Joaquín Larrivey, and those targeted would be Luis Amarilla and Jeison Chalá.The name of the center-forward of Liga de Quito is the one that most likes within the leadership of Azul Azul, the coach Santiago Escobar and the sports manager Luis Roggiero. But it will not be easy, since Amarilla has also been followed by other South American teams such as Newell’s, Cerro Porteño and Nacional de Uruguay.Meanwhile, Chalá, with very few minutes in Godoy Cruz of Argentina, is an old acquaintance of Escobar.

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