The moving cry of a DT from Boca’s inferiors after receiving the ovation of his little players

The 2012 category of Mouth it had been imposed before River in a “mini” version of the Super classic of Argentine football. But beyond xeneize’s winning goals in Ezeiza, the thrill came after the game when the boys ‘coach, former footballer Pino Hernández, burst into tears after receiving the boys’ recognition.

“Olé, olé, olé … Pino, Pino …”, the little ones sang provoking the expert coach, whose full name is Edward Daniel Hernandezwith a past as a footballer in teams such as Vélez, Platense, San Lorenzo and Racing, and who since 1989 has dedicated himself to football for children.

The joy of the boys, who ended up crying along with a completely excited Pino, had to do with the much celebrated victory of the boys of Xeneize against the boys of Millo.

However, as Pino rightly proclaims since his beginnings as a coach, the important thing is not the result but the union of the team and the values ​​of sport.

In 1986 Pino suffered a serious injury, a triple fracture in his leg that kept him away from football for a year and a half, during which he discovered the vocation that would mark the rest of his life.

“I was able to think a lot, and between those thoughts I became convinced that what really happened to me it was a sign to “educate” the children of the game that football ‘can be’, as there are obstacles in the way; instead the study ‘sure it is’ “, said the coach in an interview published on the official website of the FEFI, the Children’s Football Association.

And then he expanded: “I was 26 and from that moment I started training as a DT, writing down every day in a notebook every daily situation I experienced, training with every DT I had. It lasted up to 30 years I retired, I attended the course and after 2 years I graduated. Since my injury it has always been clear to me that my passion was to be an instructor for childhood and youth“.

After the hug and the song of the Boca boys, Pino also received congratulations from all the parents who followed the game from one of the stands of the Xeneize club in Ezeiza.

“Only show them if their children leave the field happy, the rest is not important,” the TD usually says wisely. And this Tuesday happiness was complete.