“You have saved us many times, you are a great archer”: the story of Tiziano, the boy who moved the world of football by consoling Unsain, after the Boca goal

On Children’s Day, Tiziano Carrizo gave himself the pleasure of his life. The 12-year-old is a Halcón de Varela fan. And he had a dream: to meet Ezequiel Unsain, his idol. And, many of the times he took the field to support Defense and Justice, he carried one of the typical signs you see on European courts asking to meet his favorite player, but he never got a response from the player wearing the jersey number shirt. 22 of Beccacece’s team.

The last minutes of recovery were played when Tiziano told his father: “I’m going to the bathroom”. In that, Daniel Carrizo began to smell how his team, which had made the credit of keeping the three points, could leave empty-handed. It is that, in front of us there was Boca and its hierarchy. They had already scored 47 when Sebastián Villa recovers the ball in the middle of the field, evades two players and runs 30 meters with his characteristic speed until, at the right moment, He released the ball so that his teammate Luis Vázquez came face to face with Ezequiel Unsainthe goalkeeper of the local team.

The Boca striker advances the ball and takes bite, which confused the Varela goalkeeper who could not avoid the goal that gave the visit victory in recovery time. The image of Maxi Failla, the Clarín photographer who immortalized the game when Villa recovered the ball in midfield and his rush to assist, ends with a resigned Unsaín before the celebration of Vázquez. It was less than two minutes before the referee Trucco decreed the end of the game.

While all this was happening (Villa’s game, Vázquez’s goal), Tiziano climbed the line that separates the pitch from the audience.

Then Silvio Trucco’s final whistle blew and the cameras resumed how the goalkeeper knelt in resignation, resting his arms on the grass with a bewildered gaze on Varela’s green. The open frame shows how a little boy starts running from the center of the pitch, in the same direction that Villa had taken before, but what he does is hug Varela’s # 1 (who is actually wearing # 22) to comfort him.

“You are a great archer, don’t worry about the goal, you always save us”, the boy says to Unsain, who looks at him and hugs him as if they have always known each other.

And, from Varela, they started moving to find this guy via Twitter, the tool that clubs usually use for this type of action. From the official Defense and Justice account, they cited the video in question and added: “Twitter friends help us find this guy who moved us all with this hug he gave to Ezequiel Unsain”.

And the fans, both from the Defense and from various Argentine football teams, got to work: while waiting for the “Halcón” request, several fans managed to locate the boy. His name is Tiziano, he says he is present at every match led by Sebastián Beccacece with his fatherand for his great gesture, he could now receive a nice surprise.

He talked about Daniel, Titian’s father

And just as they spotted the protagonist of the video, they were also able to find Daniel Carrizo, his father. The man spoke to Radio La Red and told the background of this embrace that moved all Argentine football.

“My son is an Unsain fan. I didn’t think he would be on the pitch. He went straight to Unsain, told him he is a great archer,” said Daniel, a few hours after a defeat that increasingly complicates the Defense in his aspirations to enter the next edition of the Copa Libertadores.

Titian’s father did not delve too deeply into the search for the ‘Falcon’, who is trying to contact his family, but closed with a few words from his son: “Yesterday he told me ‘I’m going to the bathroom’. He went to court and what happened happened. When he came out he said to me ‘I made my dream come true'”.

Carrizo saw his son being escorted by security to a gate that Defense fans know well. And when he left the field he went straight to wait for him, without worrying too much. Some time later Tiziano opened the doors and saw Tiziano come out: “I have realized the dream of my life”, he told him. And what was he going to do, dad. It was Father’s Day. I wasn’t going to challenge him.