Huanchacho is blue and white: heartfelt tribute to Los Potrillos who fell in the Fokker | PHOTOS

There is a wound that will never close on the skin of everything allianceist. It is a pain that time neither repairs nor will it repair. Every December 8, the heart cries and nostalgically remembers those quimbosos ‘foals’ that not even death could defeat.

Huanchaco once again became that town where Marcos Calderón, his 16 pupils led by José ‘Caíco’ Gonzales Ganoza and his technical command, are remembered with religious fervor; to Eugenio Simonetti and the other seven baristas who left the throat that afternoon of the triumph in Pucallpa; Washington Gómez and the other leaders.

At 11:30 in the morning, dozens of blue and white shirts crowded the Sanctuary of the Virgen de la Candelaria del Socorro de Huanchaco, a temple that is located on top of the spa and as if it were Matute, also cries with pain when they are heard the names of Luis Escobar, Alfredo Tomassini or José ‘Pelé’ Casanova. “Long live Alianza!” exclaimed the parish priest Bernardo Sánchez.

Heartfelt homage in the sea

After the traditional mass, which always culminates with the sad celebration of Augusto Polo Campos and throats dilated from so much singing with a crushed heart, the Huanchaco pier was once again the scene of a unique tribute in the country. Sixteen fishermen, mounted on their ancestral caballitos de totora, reached the tip of the pier to later leave floral offerings in the sea in honor of those who fell in the waters of Ventanilla.

“Tomás Farfán Farfán, César Susoni Martínez, Milton Cavero Carozzi…”, cried minutes before Mario Alberto Pérez Merino, president of the ASALT (Association of Supporters of Alianza Lima Trujillo), compadre of “Nene” Cubillas and unshakable memory of what happened that fateful Tuesday in 1987.

“The people of Alianza will never forget them,” replied Evaristo Leytón Venegas, another Alianza member who has the club’s colors tattooed on his skin. He is also president of ASAL Huanchaco and, above all, author of this heartfelt and posthumous tribute to the Fokker martyrs.

Thirty-five years after the tragedy, Tito Moreno Morales, one of the founders of Brigada Grone, commented that Marcos Calderón’s ‘foals’ will always live in the memory of the heart and indelible retinas will remain their mischief and love for the blue and white Up Alliance!, he cheered him.

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