And one night the hummingbird returned. The objectives of Miguel Borgia They returned to the Monumental and their two cries paved the way for the victory of River Estudiantes de La Plata for 5 to 0. With these two, adds the Colombian six points since you saw the red band.
“I’m grateful that I managed to score, but I know I have to keep working and improving.”, said the scorer. And he added: “I loved the team, it reflected on the fact that they were focused, they had a lot of ball, they played and this is important to have confidence. And when there is confidence I can also play outside the box, which always makes me strange when I leave it but I was able to do it and associate with my teammates ”.
Borja spent a magical night. So much so that the first goal had a bit of luck as the definition was not very good as, with all the time and space in his favor, he threw a soft shot with the inside of his right foot that Joaquín Pourtau gave him. it slipped incredibly through hands and the ball slowly landed against the opposite post.
Borja, an expert, realized that he had the complicity of the Estudiantes goalkeeper and almost did not shout at the goal. But a few minutes later he would feel the need to shake his vocal cords.
Juanfer Quintero, who has known him since he was a boy, hits him with a phenomenal long pass that Borja lowers with his right thigh after scoring a diagonal, bounces the ball and shoots Pourtau. There yes, the celebration had the complete combination: he screams, hummingbirds dance, and prays to the sky. Oh, also a greeting with Marcelo Gallardo.
Borja had two more chances to increase his share of goals. But Pourtau shot him a close-range shot before the end of the first half and in the complement he almost missed under goal. Subsequently, he was replaced by Matías Suárez and received cheers from fans.
“I’m leaving with that disappointment that I could have scored two more but they won 5-0 and that’s the most important thing”he recognized the 9. And in the final leg of the championship, he said: “We are going step by step and we add three in every game.”
What was not of magic Borja was his race to reach this gift he has in the River to which with the Olympus jersey in 2014 he transformed into the same goal that scored the two goals against Estudiantes on Wednesday night. It was based on many sacrifices. Since he was 13, when he decided to get out of the poverty that surrounded him in Tierralta and help his family with the football. On that path full of early goals, suddenly jumping to the Córdoba team (the department where Tierralta is located) gave him visibility. In any case, the transit until reaching Primera was not so round.
He was tried and rebounded later in Millonarios, Envigado and Atlético Nacional. Even though he never gave up. Until in the América de Cali they gave him space to make the Inferiores. But there is always a but: he didn’t make his debut there. He met Primera in Cúcuta at the age of 17. He played in B in Cortuluá. He had his (frustrating) European experience at Livorno, a team with which he was relegated like him to Gremio. He came to Argentina for the first time to shout a goal against River at Olympus. He won the South American in Independiente Santa Fe and the Libertadores in Atlético Nacional. All this, of course, before his best-known stage in Palmeiras and Junior, already in the stable cast of the Colombian team.
Source: Clarin
