Jorge Fossati, the lord of this miracle: the ‘U’ wins in Argentina and begins to heal its wounds

Tonight in Lima, tonight in La Plata, Universitario has defeated Gimnasia y Esgrima 1-0 in El Bosque for the Copa Sudamericana, and by the way, it has updated its international validity, so impossible for other shirts. 56 years ago they had defeated River and Racing in 48 hours for the Copa Libertadores. The famous cup that of Chumpi, Chale, Cruzado. Today he returns to Lima strengthened, a bodybuilder. Today they tell them to walk back from Argentina and they come, happy.

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The doer of this is, by far, Mr. Jorge Fossati. Guide me, oh Lord of Uruguay. The ‘U’ had already knocked on the door twice. The first, when in 1993 the then cream leadership looked for Sergio Markarián and Fossati, who was his field assistant, preferred to stay at the Uruguayan River to debut as a coach. The second, just over a year ago, when the University had already decided to recover its old Uruguayan feeling -so many surnames, Roberto Scarore, Rubén Techera, Tomás Silva- and, without Gregorio Pérez for health reasons, they asked if a trip to Peru was possible to start a project. He couldn’t then. This year, already released from his assignment in the Danube, he asked three things as soon as the Ferrari administration -via Manuel Barreto- contacted him. 1) How is Emanuel Herrera? 2) Why doesn’t Piero Quispe play? 3) Could we reconcile with the fans and play to a full stadium every date? He needed his 9, his 10 and his 40 thousand. Since then, he has led 6 games, won 5 and drawn only 1. He went to Cusco and brought back three points. He gave him – in three days – his stamp: he gave Corzo the captaincy, made him a stopper in a line of 5 and took Polo from the end, where he was a harmless wing. This personality was well received by his team, with whom he talks “hours of hours” (Valera dixit), trying to explain why he does what he does. He traveled to La Plata and premiered in the South American with this great triumph that, although it does not classify or make anyone a millionaire -beyond the 100 dollar prize-, it returns to the ‘U’ a manor that seemed lost, sepia, even impossible to believe for today’s children.

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For them, above all, this is also the ‘U’. Or I say well, this is the U of Jorge Fossati, a man with a CV of 20 tons who, in this month and days that he lives in Peru, is working the impossible miracle for 30 technicians that the club, his situation, his enemies , shredded in the last ten years. He is healing him. He is healing the wounds in the only possible way that he heals football: by winning his games. Imposing. Showing hierarchy. Here and there. By local league or by international cup. A Sunday afternoon or a Wednesday like these, that boil.

Imagine, Mr. Fossati, what will happen when the deep cuts in the body of the U have disappeared forever. That day you will be carried on the shoulders.