Grimaldo and Quispe: the jewels of SC and the U and who is the best young footballer in League 1 Betsson

In this note, two opinion columns, we explain why.

Let no one stop Grimaldo

By Pedro Canelo @pedrocaneloec

Joao Grimaldo He only needed 45 minutes of the match against Brazil to confirm that he is an inevitable player. In each escape down the wing, the Sporting Cristal attacker wants to leave all traces of adversity behind. He was a minor when he was a trend on social networks – cyberbullying is the more precise term – for a missed goal against Uruguay in the 2019 South American Sub 17. And when he was beginning to show his talent credentials, a ligament injury left him out. several months at the end of the 2022 season. Run because time in football is unforgiving. He runs because, although he doesn’t say it, he feels unstoppable.

Why do we love Joao Grimaldo so much? The applause at the National Stadium, the night of the loss to Canarinha, had two peak moments: when Paolo Guerrero was named in the starting eleven and when Grimaldo won the fifty-meter dash race against Marquinhos. If Pocho Rospigliosi returned thanks to a time machine, he would say that Grimaldo plays “how people like”. He is fast, mischievous and does what we ask so much of a winger: he confronts the opponent.

That healthy evolution that excites us so much about Joao – to fill out the requirements sheet he has a Brazilian name – is today accompanied by goals: five in the Clausura tournament. The young forward is represented by Raúl González, the same man who brought Jefferson Farfán and Reimond Manco to PSV. There is enough experience to know which is the path to glory and which is to the precipice.

Joao Grimaldo He can run without pauses because today he wins any acceptance survey. Even without being able to complete that shot after Riveros’ blooper against Universitario, he is on his way to establishing himself as the undisputed cocky man of the beer bar. Grimaldo is a light blue winger.

Piero Quispe and what we dream for his career

By Miguel Villegas @prakzis

He is no longer alone. For months now, Piero Quispe He is one of the most photographed, explained, and x-rayed footballers in League 1. He shares honors with Bryan Reyna – the winger from Alianza – and Joao Grimaldo – the attacker from Cristal – and tonight, when the ‘U’ starts in the game that defines the year, has the enormous mission of behaving at the level of what we imagine for his career. It’s not his fault, of course. It has to do with our eternal anxiety, the obligatory lack: in each appearance of a boy in Primera we see another Earsthe replacement of Yotúna new Cave.

It is, however, a selection under construction. , curiously the midfielder from whom he won the position and since then, with Compagnucci and especially with Fossati, he never left.

In today’s ‘U’ it is a free offensive midfielder with two resources that elevate it above the local average: short dribble and bravery. On top of that, a struggle to recover the ball. His partnership with the Chilean Ureña – the best reinforcement of the year – and, above all, with Edison Flores, his mentor, who tonight will be the starter and key to knowing if the U can emerge as Clausura champion or wait impatiently for its Centennial.

In the selection it is another requirement. It is difficult today to define exactly where he could alternate in Reynoso’s team. What does it play or better, where is it most useful. The impression is that, if instead of looking for a space to open forward, he returns to his field to carry the ball like Oliver, he urges a change in his habits. And if he doesn’t add a shot to the goal, that is, power and a sense of opportunity, that big contract that we all dream of for him will cost him three times as much. To score the goals that now happen once every five games, first of all, you have to kick. That is, train.

Beyond that, and a career that is just taking shape, is who he will do it with from the bench. And there it has a huge advantage. In Ate he is the Uruguayan Fossatiwith a thousand games above, and in Videna, Reynoso, an obsessive technician who makes you see numbers, kilometers, statistics, more than journalists’ opinions. All that is sought today in international competition. If he takes advantage of them, as it seems, it will be his own victory.