“He has a European style of play”: Who is Axel Cabellos, the Sub 17 player who chose to play for Argentina and not for Peru?

The sensations are strange for the Cabellos Vásquez family. In the left lane of the George Capwell stadium, Axel Jair moves in the light blue and white Argentina shirt. He is the second of three brothers (Catriel, 18, who played for Peru’s Under 20s, and Uriel, 13), but he has just divided the table in the Peru (0-3) Argentina for the South American Sub 17 that takes place in Ecuador. On the one hand, her mother, Argentine, excited to see her son defend the colors of the country where she was born; on the other, his father, also proud, although with the feeling that he could (still can) follow in Catriel’s footsteps and play for his beloved Peruvian team.

Axel started the game and left great impressions in his game. He won every ball down his flank, is smart to attack and win the back line, and has no problem building play from his position. Besides, gave a great assist for Agustín Ruberto’s goal.

Don Humberto left Peru at the end of the convulsed decade of the 90’s. He arrived in Argentina and knew love. August 18, 2004 was one of the happiest days for him and his beloved. Born Catriel. Exactly two years and three months later (November 18, 2006) the second came into the world, axel. And in 2009, he was born Uriel.

His first steps in Racing

Like Catriel, Axel was “discovered” by Fabio CostasGustavo’s brother, a former coach of Alianza Lima and now in command of the Bolivian team. “Fabio had a soccer school and he trained Catriel when he was seven or eight years old. One day he called me and told me about him. We recruited him and he worked with me in baby soccer (soccer 7), then we transferred him to the field of eleven “tells us from Argentina, Ramón Medina, coordinator and pre-infantile coach at the Avellaneda club, in addition to being a talent scout. He formed cracks like Rodrigo de Paul, Matias Zaracho and the controversial Ricardo Centurionamong others, in the three decades that he has been working at the institution.

“Through Catriel comes Axel, her brother. He too with seven or eight years. And the same process happens: from baby football to the field of eleven. Technically he is very gifted, as a child he already showed interesting things. He has been making a career at the club and he is a boy who has a great future”Add.

For Martín Jiménez, journalist and analyst for the partisan outlet “El metodo Racing”, “Axel is a left back with a lot of back and forth. I am not comparing them, be careful, I say that the way of playing is similar ”. “He has a projection to play in Primera de Racing. He has gone up to the sixth division this year, in 2022 he was a starter in the Seventh division that fought for the championship, ”he adds.

Axel is one of the great projects that Racing has in terms of left backs. In fact, the referent of the Argentine-Peruvian (he also has Brazilian and Paraguayan roots due to his grandparents, according to what Jiménez informed us) is Eugenio Menafootballer who went through the Avellaneda club between 2018 and 2022. “From abroad I really like Alphonso Davies (Bayern Munich of Germany) and my idols are Roberto Carlos and Messi”commented on an Argentine website recently.

“His position is a position that Racing is buying today and it is difficult to get out from the left-back club. But as a project it is a good project. Anyway, everything has a time, you don’t have to go crazy with the boy. It all depends on him.”tells us Medina.

Axel was called up to the Sub 15 of the Argentine team. He was closely followed by Pablo Aimar, who was the Sub 17 coach; however, the pandemic stopped everything for a long time. Now he is in the South American with Diego Placente as coach,Although he was also tempted by the Peruvian Football Federation (FPF) to represent the Blanquirroja like his brother Catriel.

ends ‘Monchi’ Medina.