The journey of Felipe Pasadore, the Argentine who looked for a team on Facebook and today is a gunner in Bolivia

Football constantly gives to fans of the sport stories of improvementpeople arriving from nothing itself and touch the sky with your hands or they are told they can’t play and still manage. It’s full of stories of David against Goliath.

These days the king of sport offers another of those wonderful stories, and this time his protagonist is him Filippo Passadore a young man category 2000 who had been released by Belgrano de Córdoba in 2022. He wanted to play football and was in a group of Facebook of free agents announcing they were looking for a club. And it ended San Antonio de Bulo Bulosurprising leader of Bolivian football.

The post said: “I am looking for a representative or club to participate in the AFA” and added that he played as a 9, is left-footed, was in Pirata Cordoba and participated in the Lega Rosarina AND Bariloche League.

“It’s not common to find a club ahead Facebookbut it is very common to find many publications of free players looking for representatives, or clubs”, explains Pasadore regarding a reality also experienced in football.

He fell in love with football since he was very young and dreams of getting as far as possible in this sport. Another of his dreams is to be able to play for one of the biggest teams in the country. “I’m a fan of Newell’s, one of my dreams is to play there and get as far as possible in football.”

The man from Rosario lived there The Bagginshe started attending a football school at the age of 7 in the club Martin Guemes and then returned to his hometown. There he played for a neighborhood club called Río Negro and had a spell at Tiro Federal until he went to the Córdoba league to play for Belgrano.

Pin He explains that in the summer he took the opportunity to return to the South and play there: “When I returned to the South in the summer I played in the Bariloche championship for the Turin club Bolsón.” However, while playing in the Córdoba league, he wanted to continue grow as a player.

“The Córdoba championship tournament was ending and I wanted to look for another opportunity to grow as a footballer, outside the country or right there, in a club that participated in AFA tournaments,” explains the striker, adding that he came to Bolivian football thanks to Giulio Zamoraformer footballer of Newell’s and the Argentine national team who had as his “teacher” in Tiro Federal.

The scorer says so he never lowered his arms and he always wanted to play football “because I will play until my legs give out, whether at a neighborhood club or a professional club, but I never thought about stopping playing football”.

He arrived at the Bolivian institution in 2023 to play Simon Bolivar Cup. With the club he finished second and achieved promotion to the first division of Bolivian football. Currently registering seven goals in four games.

Making his debut in the top class Bolivian football he scored two goals in the 2-2 draw against Real Tomayapo. Then he did it three to the last championThe strongest, in the 5-1 victory, and another brace in the 3-0 win against Real Santa Cruz.

We also explain the differences between the second category and the first of the Bolivian championship: “In Bolivia’s first team there are much more technical, more skilled players” and he says that in the second division there is more running, more involvement and the game is a little more frivolous.

Something that is always talked about when an Argentine team faces a Bolivian team or about the team itself when playing against The green, It’s the height issue and Pasadore had to adapt to this issue.

“With the altitude issue last year I managed to get used to it quite quickly, I had three months before the start of the tournament; then when we go to play at altitude it’s difficult to breathe or change the air, but it’s something we have to live with” says nine .

Life in Cochabamba He likes it, says he has adapted very well to meals, loves the landscapes and the climate. The club pays him in Bolivian pesos and with that salary not only is it enough for him to rent an apartment, but he also lives well.

He Holy it’s a club relatively youngwas founded on October 31, 1962 and he is 61 years old. It’s not one of the teams with the most trophies on its board. He won his first titleAFC Primera A, in 2021. This title corresponds to the third category e allowed him to play in the Simón Bolivar Cupwhich functions as the second category, but has been eliminated.

In 2022 he won the AFC again and the following year participated in the Cup againalready with Pasadore finished second in the field and I got the the first climb is its story to the highest category.

Today, San Antonio de Bulo Bulo is pointer to group A with eight points, he won two AND tied two. He came across the group of him and He is a strong candidate to progress to the next stage of the championship. The 23-year-old was looking for a club on social media and has now become one of the Altiplano’s footballing figures.

Rosario says he never expected this start to the championship: “I didn’t imagine it would start like this, you always want to score more goals, but I couldn’t imagine how things are going.”

Given a possible call from the Bolivian team, Pasadore says he likes to joke with this possibility and that he would accept if they called him, but that he is now focused on doing the best possible for his team.

The Copa América is upon us and the possibility of integrating the squad of players that the new Brazilian coach Carlos Zago will have to present is not a utopia. Above all because it is a new process, to be replaced, and with the obligation to replace the manufacturing legacy of the historic Marcelino Martins. What if it was Pasadore’s turn? From Facebook to meeting Messi and his teammates in the United States, anything can happen.