“I don’t know where it is”: Ruben Darío Insua and his curious answer about the Chilean Ibacache

The name of alex ibacache began to gain strength Saint Lawrence In the last days of 2022, and with the arrival of the new year, Cyclone closed its constitution on loan until December 2023 and with an option to purchase. However, since his arrival, the 24-year-old Chilean full-back did not add a minute in a Barça shirt.

In the first two games, against Arsenal and Lanús, There could not be because San Lorenzo did not yet have the authorization. The cards have just arrived on the eve of the match against Godoy Cruzalthough finally Ruben Dario Insua he didn’t take that into account either.

And his situation got even more complicated last week when Ibachache requested permission to travel to Chile to settle family matters. Although both the club and Insua accepted the request elThey gave him a few days off to be able to return home, the winger didn’t return on time.

In the week, Matías Caruzzo referred to the matter and confirmed that the winger had asked for more time due to the “seriousness of the problem”. But this Monday, in the conference, Insua was blunt when asked about the player’s situation: “The Ibachache boy, the last day he practiced was Tuesday, I don’t know where he is from then on.”

The sentence of the DT of the Cyclone rang out loud in San Lorenzo and in Chile e It is not excluded that the end of his relationship with the club is finally decided.

Who is Ibachache?

The departure of Nicolás Fernández Mercau forced San Lorenzo to look for a player in the left lane of defense to replace him and it was there that the name of ibacaches. A 24-year-old Chilean winger who played for Everton in his home country.

Despite his young age he already has a more than interesting career: in 2019 he was on loan at Cobreloa, even if he didn’t have much participation and the following year he moved to Curicó Unido. Where he played the most was for his club and in total in his career he has already totaled more than 100 matches in the First Division, eight of which in international cups: four in Sudamericana and four in Libertadores.

“I have an aggressive game, I have a lot of attitude when I enter the court. I am a player who has a good physique, who tramples both areas, ”Ibacache said in an interview with the official press of the Barça team. “At first I thought it was just a survey, I took it easy. When they Having said that there was a formal offer, I was very happy. I wanted it to be resolved very quickly” the player confessed.

The performances of Ibachache, born in Quillota, gave him the opportunity to play for his national team: He was part of the roster that competed in the South American Sub 20 in 2019 and played in the Pre-Olympic in 2020. For his part, in the Major, Eduardo Berizzo has called him up for the tour of Asia that La Roja did in the middle of this year.

Thus, in the first days of January 2023, the exterior closed its incorporation on a loan until December of this year, with an option to buy, and became the first reinforcement of San Lorenzo in this market.

And although he immediately went to work under Insua’s orders, he missed the first two games because San Lorenzo still didn’t qualify and was only available to face Godoy Cruz, even if he wasn’t in the squad.