Gustavo Costas dressed as an actor and Racing imitated “Los Simuladores” to present his cascade of reinforcements

Consolidate yourself as one of the teams that has strengthened the most and best in this market, Racing He chose a particular way to present his purchases, referring to the iconic TV series, The simulatorsand the DT Gustavo Costa It was part of audiovisual production.

The Academy has opened the doors of Cylinder to show their brand new players, live, to the over 15 thousand people who came to meet them but on social media they doubled down with a fun video that reminds us of the emblematic fiction created by Damián Szifrón.

During this transfer period, several clubs have tried to make the most of their imagination to present their new names in an ingenious way via social networks. And that line is what Racing followed with its titled video Reinforcements: operation in progressin homage to The Simulators.

With Gustavo Costa In the role of protagonist and leader of one of the typical initial meetings of the band of heroes, the DT made use of the acting collaboration of his field assistants. AS, Racing found a way to present nine of its eleven reinforcements: Cambeses, Conti, García Basso, Zuculini, Sosa, Gelos, Solari, Salas and Martínez. In the cases of Urzi and Di Cesare, who would also arrive, the details to close their contracts are missing.

“Gustavo, they told me you do this type of work, we have to put Racing at the top“, is the first thing you hear in the video through a voice-over that emulates the conversation on the phone with Costas. There the image of the new Academia coach appears for the first time, who replies: “Yes, calm down, we can do it. The only thing… we need backup. But we will bring them“.

After the introduction, the video moves to a meeting held by the entire race technical team in their office, in which one of the field assistants takes over the meeting to be tasked with giving a short presentation of each of the reinforcements. After each presentation, Costas, along with a brief justification based on what led him to choose each player, releases: “You have to bring it“.

The only one who didn’t deserve to be introduced was Bruno Zuculiniwho just grew up in the Avellaneda youth team, when they immediately mentioned the player to Costas, expressed: “We have to bring him now. This is one of ours. This is the race“.

Once the meeting is over, the final scene of the video sees Costas calling the person back to the beginning. There, the academic idol takes advantage of the situation to convey tranquility both to the person behind the phone and to all the Racing fans. “Keep calm, We have already talked to my team and we have a plan“says the technician looking at the camera.

After Costas’ excellent performance, the video culminates with an image showing each of the reinforcements, in the rain, accompanied by a Costas wearing one of the typical cloaks worn by the protagonists of the series.

“Cinema” was the word with which thousands of enthusiasts tried to summarize the publication. They even compared the club manager to a movie star. “When Costas says ‘bring it’ he reminds me of Robert De Niro in the movie Fire Against Fire,” one user commented mischievously.

Costas’ emotion in front of his people

Before the Los Simuladores-style video was spread on social networks, Racing decided to publicly present its reinforcements to its people in the Cilindro de Avellaneda. There, in front of 15 thousand people, it was the moment in which Costas put aside the scripts and his acting skills to take the microphone and speak to the fans from the heart.

“It’s hard to talk. What I feel now, I thought I would never experience again. Life gave me another chance. I’m very happy, excited here, with a lot of support from you. We come here for everything“, confessed the coach, visibly emotional.

And with a definite football mentality, he added: “They have to demand of us, if they have to harass us, they will do it, and it would be the biggest dream of my life to be able to bring Racing back up there, to be able to win championships. From Saturday I’ll be waiting for you all to bring Racing to the top, from Saturday the finals begin and the finals will be won“.

At 60 the idol recognized as “half coach and half Racing fan“He will begin his third phase at the helm of the Academy, although this time it will be the first in which he finds himself with “an organized club, not like the one I had when I was young.” Unión de Santa Fe, this Saturday from 9 p.m., it will be his first stop, as well as that of several of his reinforcements.