Atlante will look to savor the title honeys when they face Tampico’s Jaiba Brava in the return leg of the Expansion League Final. The Barça team, true to its custom, arrives with good football, but with a certain load of suffering and color, as dictated by its stale history. And this feature is evident in the history of Luis García, one of the team’s top scorers and who crossed a crossroads to be part of the Colts and today is about to consecrate.
The Iron Foals formed a roster of 28 players just days before the Expansion League began. Luis Garci’a had terminated his contract with Alebrijes and saw a great opportunity the power to play with the picture of the capital, reason why he did not doubt to request an opportunity to him to Mario Garci’a, DT of Barça and who I already knew.
“I spoke to Prof. Mario when I found out he was going to be the team coach. I was on vacation because I terminated my contract with Alebrijes and he told me that he thought I would follow Alebrijes, so I didn’t plan to, because I also already had his eight seniors but that he was pending, “García recalled in an interview with Mediotiempo.
The problems Atlante had to form the squad they made a quota open for a senior player and it was where the destiny put to Luis Arcadi in the way of the Foals. “In a week and a half the teacher called me back and told me that a place had been vacated and that I was going to Mexico City. Without thinking I left immediately”.
Nominated for best goal
When his career seemed lost, the opportunity at Atlante saved him and he took advantage of it. at nominations the best goal of the season in the Expansion League there is what García Bañuelos scored in Correcaminos on the last day, where he took advantage of a long rejection of Gansito Hernández to finish above the goalkeeper.
“It was a very nice goal, it was a play in which Licha (Lizandro Echevarría) called to me and I walked already dazzled and it did not leave as it thought, but luckily I was able to define above the doorman. It was on the last day and that goal helped us finish second and gave me more confidence for the Liguilla, “he admitted.
He fondly remembers the Orozco Check
While Garcia is close to the title with Atlante today, his walk in football has given him many memories. When the health problems of Ezequiel Orozco (former player who died in 2018 of cancer) began, Luis was his bat teammate. He still fondly remembers all the teachings that left him as a person.
“I arrived at the tournament when Check started with low back pain and all the problems and it was my turn to go visit him. They were very hard times, we remember him as a great human being. He was a simple, humble and charismatic person. When I arrived, they gave me the number 27 he had and when I went to Parrots I gave him back the number. No one could have imagined that a person like Check who had an impressive physique would pass this on to him“, Remembered.
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