“He is so loved that La Bombonera sees him and stands up”: Luis Advíncula and why he is following in the footsteps of Meléndez and Solano in Boca

Twenty-six years after the famous nickname ‘Maestrito’, a brief description of the talent that Ñol had in his right foot, Luis Advíncula pays tribute to him with his ownership in the same difficult team, from which the Libertadores ask him as if he were buying a choripán : He is one of the five regulars in the eleven for two seasons, be it Ibarra, Almirón and now Martínez and he is so loved that, every now and then, La Bombonera sees him and stands up. He was already the first Peruvian player to score with that shirt in the Cup. Today he is playing his sixth classic as a starter in Argentina and the club, that club that loves very few, sent him this loving message on Twitter a few days ago: “Stay live in Boca, Pichón.” Not even Melendez. Not even Solano. Not Zambrano, the ‘Lion’. To Lucho Advíncula.

We must now get used to their exaggerated movements, which mix athletics with capoeira; to his blows, which mix kung fu with hurdle jumping; to his goals out of context, like the one he scored against Ayacucho playing for Cristal in 2010, a Maradonian sprint that he later defined while dying of laughter: “I was just running.” Or that goal to make it 2-1 against Germany, post World Cup in Russia, when the band was more Corzo’s than his own and after that they didn’t get it anymore. Or the three that he did in Boca in 2023 for the Libertadores, which elevated him to the pedestal where he is today.

It’s Luis Advíncula. His present is proof that learning never ends. If today we postpone any plan to stay hooked on TV and the River-Boca classic, it is because of him.