A Blue Cross he is known as the ‘bad eye’ team when it comes to signing foreigners. There are plenty of examples of footballers who came with a lot of posters but who over the months went on to thicken the list of foreign failures. Juan Escobar he is one of the few who has broken the rule, and in one of his best moments with the club, he reciprocates all the affection and support he has received from the fans with a declaration of love: I am cruzazulino from the cradle.
It arrived from the Sportivo Luqueño in what has been his first and only experience outside Paraguay. From his arrival he seized the right side of the team, and in this new stage with Juan Reynoso in command, he has alternated his stays stuck in the line with a position he has known since his inception: central defender.
“It’s just that as a boy my idol was Roque Santa Creu …”, Escobar confesses in an interview for Marca It is clear to be consulted by his goal-scoring ‘gene’ that has exploded in this guardians. Guarani is one of the team’s top scorers in this tournament (2), and since his arrival in La Noria he has already scored six goals, a figure that exceeds the total of his scores in his five years in the League of Paraguay (5).
“I’ll be honest, I’m doing things right, but I don’t feel safe to say it’s my best moment because it costs me physically.” expresses with greater modesty one of the players of the celestial planter who accumulates more minutes on the turf. With 891 minutes left in this semester, the Villa Elisa native is the second Blue Cross field player with the longest playing time in his legs, surpassed only by his defensive partner, Julio Domínguez (900).
“I’m a cross-country cradle, I’ll always be with this team no matter what happens. One of these colors comes to me, I felt the affection and I will try to get what the fans want so much, it will be beautiful if we get it. “., The conversation was closed by the full-back, who has become one of the main architects of the good times of the Machine, a team that is about to match its historic mark of consecutive victories in the MX League.