Racing and Boca draw 1-1 and play the second overtime. Avellaneda’s team had one more man and more chances, but it seemed the game was over on penalties. However, two minutes from the end of the final whistle, Carlos Alcaraz He sent the ball into the net and condemned the game. After the unbridled cheering of the young scorer, endless expulsions and riots were generated that lasted several minutes and caused the game to end, as Boca did not have the minimum number of players necessary to continue playing.

Matias Rojas revealed that there is a story behind the third goal of the team led by Fernando Gago. The technical director, in the midst of the dizziness typical of a game of this type, schematized a basketball game on a tablet and could not have gone better. Two minutes from the end the team moves the ball until it reaches the pitcher (in this case Piovi), who pulls out a sharp center and Carlos Alcaraz eats the shoulders of the Boca defenders to get the header that gives the title to the Racing.

“What I can tell you is that the coach said it’s a basketball game. He showed it on the iPad to those who were playing. I remember he said to do this and walked away“were the words of Rojas.

“It was as Gago had predicted: Piovi had to shoot in the middle and Alcaraz would have won from behind,” Insúa told ESPN.

The Paraguayan also commented on his amazement at Gago’s cold blood for being able to think so clearly at a time when the throbbing causes shock. “I don’t know where the analysis of playing a game with such a high heart rate takes. I started analyzing it later because by the time things happen, they talk to me, Lolo was out. I don’t know at what point you analyze making that play“, commented.

The NBA game went just fine for Fernando Gago. At the age of 36, he won his first title as a coach, left the stigma that decisive duels weighed on him and helped Racing make a new Olympic lap.