The special celebration of Benedetto in Bombonera. Photo: Fernando de la Orden – CLARIN
“This is my second home, I am thankful that I spent my birthday here, using this shirt. If you want to give me a gift, let’s win today and let’s win on Sunday “. He said this throughout the festival, at noon, along with the entire campus. He had his cake and they sang him happy birthday. But the first gift he asked for Darius Benedetto, who turned 32 this Wednesday, could not. Sunday left.
Although he gave himself another great goal with his seal: great control and a right cross to make it 1-1 before the end of the first half. Pipa celebrated the goal he almost always does, but with a special feeling, he kissed her hand a few times and looked up at the sky, looking for where his mother had died when he was just 12 years old.
Only one Boca player scored a goal on his birthday in a match in the Copa Libertadores: Guillermo Barros Schelotto, on May 4, 2004, when Xeneize beat Sporting Cristal 3-2 in Lima, Peru.
When the match ended, the striker vented his anger against Uruguayan referee Christian Ferreyra. “It’s a pity what’s happening, the game stopped for more than 12 minutes and they only added 7 minutes, it’s embarrassing, it’s exaggerated”shot and then commented on the draw: “We are not happy with the result but we are happy with the game we have. We held 90 minutes, the Corinthians were a team to come back to and when it was left missing one, it was even worse ”.
Finally, the former Arsenal added: “We are calm because of the game we played. The team was fine, united, as always, because it knew we couldn’t do more than we did. Eventually the rival was caught and we couldn’t make him second “.
The striker is on 25th place of Boca’s historical table of scorers, including 55 conquestnow to one of the Ernesto Mastrangelo Y Alfredo Rojas.
Source: Clarin