The humble Ezeiza club that changed its life for a collection from Santi Maratea and aims to build its stadium

It is not new that nowadays social networks -well used- can be essential to fulfill dreams and change realities. And this is the case of Soccer Club EzeizaYes From his lack of training to receiving millions of pesos and land to build his own soccer stadium.

180-degree turn, network identification and resource mobilization took place thanks to a collection conducted Santiago Marathea. The harsh reality of the Buenos Aires club dreaming of playing in First D led one of its members to contact the influencer and he was brought into the situation.

On his Twitter account, the former driver “Lost generation” I’m in advance on the Monday I’m going “create a new collection” and he expected the support of his followers despite the fact that it was a reason he “never mentioned.”

Immediately on Instagram, he explained the economic reality of the club competing in the Metropolitan League of San Vicente: “They don’t. They cannot play at home because there is no wire on the land given to them by the Municipality, and according to the regulations to be able to put up a field you have to put up a wire. So they’re always playing, they have to pay a bond, they have nothing to hold on to. ”

“Beyond that, they accommodate 200 children, that many are on the street or not at home, they come here, practice and play. There are a lot of clubs from the neighborhood that accept all the kids and there is no way to support themselves and many are lost later, ”he concludes.

At first, Maratea’s idea was to assemble two million pesos to rent a property for two years and invest in clothing, but everything quickly rose. Collection exceeded four and a half million pesos and, as if something was missing to crown the magical mobilization, the Municipality of Ezeiza appeared and united, giving it some land in build your own stadium. Now, the money will be used for that.

The emotion of the president

This is the dream fulfilled by a club that was born less than a year ago and founded by sport enthusiasts. Santiago Galvancurrent coach and president of the institution, was contacted Clarion who previously practiced in a space provided by the Municipality “with nothing, a property where there is a large piece of land with armed courts but no exchange rooms ”.

However, they decided to move two weeks ago and started training at “Rancho Taxco”, a space located in Tristán Suárez. The cost is impossible to pay and the collection, in principle, can afford the rent for two periods of this space. “A boy playing in the club is tiktoker and contacted Santi Maratea. He wrote to me and we started to see what we could do. The idea arose to collect money to rent the place where we are now, ”Galván said.

“I can not believe“, the president stressed with a tone of voice that mixes calm and hope. The collection quickly exceeded expectations, millions of accumulated and unexpected solutions appeared.” Now, thank God, contact me the Municipality and told me that they would give us some land to have our own place. For us it is a great pride to offer it to men and give them all the best, ”he said.

Regarding money, he affirmed: “In his accumulated Santi The idea was to build two courts on the land they had given us. One is for local every Sunday and the other is for practice. We wanted to make room changes, buffets and close the entire venue using Olympic fencing. Also make one of the two synthetic fields to rent it out and thus reimburse the costs of the institution ”.

Santiago founded the club on August 19, 2021. But he was not alone, he was accompanied by “teacher Diego Senguer” from the very beginning. He said his goal was to “include all the boys out there who have no chance of achieving their dream by playing in an AFA club.” And concludes: “We want them to be good people, train and prepare them, so that everyone can find their place to fulfill their dream.“.