Hangover from Betis’ victory in Copa I Joaquín closes the virtuous circle

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The winger from El Puerto has closed the renewal with Betis, after winning the Cup against Valencia, despite having offers to present programs on television.

On Saturday morning, hours before the final of the Copa del Rey in Charterhouse from Sevillethe children of The Friars, the popular soccer school of The Port of Santa Maria where it started Joaquin Sanchez to kick a ball, they measured themselves at school Guadaletewith the beach Valdelagrana at the bottom. In each outstanding play of the rojiblancos, the same cry of encouragement was heard from the stands: “That’s a boy, like Joaquín & rdquor ;. No one forgets that he was just another ‘friar’, especially since the Betis winger, who continues to be a benchmark in modest football in his home town, comes out from time to time to watch the kids play, which makes his legend grows.

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Joaquin Sanchez closed in Charterhouse a virtuous circle. The winger who left the Friars and played a world in the recondite Korearaised the third Cup of the history of Betis. “He was predestined. joaqui He was born to lift that trophy & rdquor ;, he warned Rafael Gordillo, a Betic legend whose joy did not fit in his body. Joaquín can boast of being the only player in the 115-year history of the club who has won two titles with the green and white shirt on: the 2005 Cup and the 2022 Cup. And the latter has done so three months after turning 41 years, which makes him a rare bird in football.

‘El Niño’, as he was baptized when he arrived at the Heliopolis youth academy, has played 493 official games, thus becoming the player who has worn the green and white shirt the most times. He obviously is the footballer with the most games in First of the Betis with 381 and the one who has played the most in Cup, with 33. The story of Joaquín and football is a love story. “This that is happening to me is the prize for the love that I have always had for football. Since I returned to Betis I dreamed of playing finals. I am proud to win this title with the team that saw me born”, he warned excitedly on the pitch.

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Today ‘The child’ has become ‘Grandpa’, as they jokingly call him in the Verdiblanco dressing room, and in the next few days he will announce a renewal that has already been agreed with Betis for another season. A renewal more than justified sportingly because it is difficult to find a player of his age with as much football ancestry in his team as Joaquín in Betis. His trainer Mauricio Pellegrini, It is clear to him: “I have made it clear that I am in favor of the renewal because it brings us a lot footballingly and at the group level”. El del Puerto continues to be an unbalanced player when he starts his slaloms from the band to the inside, or temple delicious centers that he gives to his forwards.

That renewal will mean that the media life that awaits Joaquín when he hangs up his boots will have to wait. Paul Motorcycles He has already tried to recruit him as a collaborator for ‘El Hormiguero’ and there are various television networks that have sounded him out to present programs in which he exploits his funny sense of humour. However, every time he is asked, he always comes out as peteneras and tells the joke that he heard from his compadre louis lara one day. “Look, I can’t work because I have a problem with my sight… I don’t see myself working & rdquor ;. And she bursts out laughing. That’s how it is Joaquin. If Gordillo went down in the history of Beticism as ‘El Rayo Verde’, Joaquín will always be haunted by that crutch of the great Manolo Mellado, historic speaker of the Villamarin: ‘Joaquin… the feint and the sprint”.



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