On the night of April 29, 1971, Barcelona SC shocked the world with an unexpected victory over Estudiantes de La Plata, the reigning three-time Copa Libertadores champions.
The goal of the Spanish priest Juan Manuel Basurko ended the undefeated DJ in his stadium, and the echo of that corrida is not abating. To be convinced of this, it is enough to look at newspapers such as The world of sports, Vanguard and Earth – to name a few – not from 52 years ago, but from ten years ago. Or also Timefrom Bogota, 2020.
Inevitably, any match between Barcelona SC and Estudiantes de La Plata, such as this Tuesday’s in Guayaquil, for the Copa Sudamericana Round of 16 playoff, will cause Barcelona’s 1971 feat to be remembered and celebrated.
In times when “spectators have no memory,” as Mario Vargas Llosa said in his book in 2012 The civilization of the spectacle (The Peruvian Nobel Prize winner adds that “another characteristic of this culture is the impoverishment of ideas”), one sector of Ecuadorian journalism condemned this fact. Argument? Monstrosity: “Tell me no more about the feat of La Plata.”
That victory, currently discredited by “journalists” who do not know the story, was also recalled by the victim of that event. Blessed Boots: Gabriel Bambi Flores, the goalkeeper on that occasion, scored a goal that reverberated throughout Ecuador.
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“In the first game we won 1-0, and in the return game in La Plata we lost by the same score. Father Basurko scored a goal for me in La Plata and with that goal he went down in the history of the club,” Flores recalled in an interview with the newspaper. Today from La Plata.
“Over the years, in the stadium of Barcelona, in the city of Guayaquil, they made a mural for Basurka in memory of that game against Estudiantes, the goal and the share Bambi Flowers in that party,” added the newspaper.
Because of this, the former goalkeeper said that he was “immortalized” in Ecuador with a message he received from the late Juan Manuel Basurko.
“I am immortalized on a mural in an Ecuadorian institution because I received the famous miracle goal that the priest did,” Flores concluded. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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