the Chivas goalkeeper, Raúl Gudiño, revealed that in his career there was a time when felt that the goalkeeper of America, Guillermo Ochoa, He had won her dream.
Gudiño confessed in an interview with Chivas TV that this feeling invaded him when Note became the first Mexican archer to be signed in Europe; although later, he was able to remove the thorn.
It was in 2011 that the Ajaccio from Ligue 1 of France to announce to Ochoa like his acquisition, ‘winning’ him this dream to Gudiño, that until 2014 saw crystallized the opportunity to be in the Old Continent.
“I just think Memo had little that had gone to Europe and he was the first Mexican goalkeeper to leave, I thought I had won, I had this illusion, this goal of being the first“Gudiño said.
To the being signed Gudiño by I bring in 2014, it had to start from the bottom. “I was in Porto U19, then I started playing in Porto B, after seven months they made the purchase option valid and then I became the third goalkeeper of the first team.”
The first in the Champions League
Ochoa was the first Mexican goalkeeper in Europe, But Gudiño was able to overcome as the first Mexican archer to play Champions League.
Apoel Nicosia of Cyprus wanting Gudiño and the Aztec player in the first instance did not know whether to accept, as he did not even know his geographical and social location, but participating in the Champions convinced him.
“I was told I was going to play in Cyprus and I didn’t even know where I was, then I searched it on Google and I see it’s in the middle of Iraq, Close to Turkey, I was thinking about how I was going to get into it. Then my father commented to me that it was a club that would play Champions and here I decided to go“.
“I wasn’t the first goalkeeper to go to Europe, but I did want to be the first to play in the Champions League. Taking that ball and seeing that it has the stars of the Champions League, I think it’s something that will leave me marked for life, ”he said.
Gudiño even has the logo of this UEFA tournament tattooed on it participated on October 17, 2017 in front Borussia Dortmund.
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