River made it all right with Pablo Solari, the player who went to Chile on a bet and became a Colo Colo legend

It is known, the Gallardo doll He is a great observer of the players shining against his team, which, at its best, can be considered a good example of intense, high-flying football. This is how Agustín Palavecino arrived, who “looked” after a Copa Argentina match in 2018 among the River and Platense. It is also the case of Matías Suárez who traveled from Belgrano de Córdoba or of Sicario Robert Rojas who jumped after facing him in Libertadores, when he was playing in Guaraní.

And in that direction, now it’s up to Pablo Solari, the jewel arrived in Colo Colo two years ago and has become a legend. How come? The fact is that the guy named Pablo César after a millionaire idol went down in history as the key player who saved Cacique from relegation.

Who is Pablo Cesare Solari?

At this point Pablo César Solari is already a legend with his own name on the other side of the Cordillera, more precisely in the Colo Colo of Chile. the Argentine was the protagonist so that Cacique did not lose the category for the first time in 95 years of life. There is a photo. Goat festival. The popular Chilean team drew 0-0 with Universidad de Concepción. Pablo Solari (until then, an unknown young man who came from Córdoba and was earning a name) tackles diagonally, hooks twice to overtake two defenders and scores a great goal. Y he does it with incredible ease, as if his team weren’t playing history. This is the photo, but the video is worth a thousand words.

A doubt worth clarifying is that the Argentine who plays in Chile does not belong to the dynasty of the Indian Jorge Solari, formerly River and Real Madrid, Santiago, nor to the famous model and presenter Liz. But he is Argentine and plays football very well, like the family of Rosario origins who shares his surname.

Returning to the important point, it was a hot potato that Solari had to grab in February of last year. And he didn’t get burned. “95 years on the back of a 19 year old“, La Tercera published.” Pablo Solari saved Colo Colo, “El Comercio said, although others have gone for more.”You have to make a lifetime contract“asked others, more excited.

That February 2021, Pablo Solari went from being the boy who arrived as a young man to strengthen Cacique’s team to “the hero of the team of honor,” as Clarín’s correspondent in the trans-Andean country commented at the time. Pablo began to show his good football little by little, coming off the bench, being more and more protagonist in key games until he became the fundamental piece.

“Pablo Solari is not a reinforcement, he is a young man for the future. The reinforcements we wanted to bring couldn’t come“Gustavo Quinteros, DT Lemma’s assistant, said at the time. But things accelerated.

The boy who will go to Argentina tomorrow to reach River (no longer a boy, he turned 21) was born in a small town of Córdoba of 1000 inhabitants called Arizona, one of those quiet places where there is hardly a school, a square and a paddock, many pastures to play. And the Arizona Social and Sports Club, of course, where Solari started playing more or less seriously. It was at the age of 8 that it all started.

The most curious thing is that Solari is called Pablo César di Aimar. So put him his father, a fanatic of Millo. And he also has a brother named Santiago Solari, in clear homage to the Indiecito. And, how could it be otherwise, as a boy he tried his hand at Núñez. It was a busy week in which the family finally returned to Córdoba. “We dare not leave him,” said his father, Víctor (the one who passed on his passion for the red sash), a legendary scorer who was nicknamed “El Matador” in his time as an amateur.

Later Solari ventured into Vélez and did not stay, but in his most natural place: Talleres de Córdoba. From there he would move on to Colo Colo, but first he tried for a youth team that played the famous Alcudia tournament. There he managed to score with the Biancocelesti in the 4-1 victory against Mauritana. Who brought him to First? Nothing less than Cacique Medina, the DT who misses the T so much these days. Not long ago, in 2020, he was even on the bench twice against Newell’s and Lanús, in the Maradona Cup.

It is worth clarifying that they want to nationalize Solari as a Chilean to play for La Roja and the possibility would be in their plans. In any case, you will have to wait a little over three years for your citizenship to have the necessary seniority.

It’s just that Solari’s great career began in Colo Colo, where he became a legend. And just a few months ago he faced Millo in the big match played for the Copa Libertadores Qualifying zone and Gallardo saw that the boy was serious.

In the last few hours, River has reached an agreement with Colo Colo and will keep 60 percent of the pass in exchange for four and a half million dollars. So Solari who could not be at his first test in the Millo will have the opportunity to play in his love club. A way to keep writing your story. And may his name begin to resonate also from this part of the Cordillera.