“I won the championship,” the Guayaquil man celebrated on social media after the victory against Washington.
“I won the United States championship, the first Ecuadorian to do so.” This is how he celebrated on social networks Luis Felipe Fernandez Salvador this year’s football title of the NCAA (National University Sports Association, in Spanish), after his team, Clemson, beat Washington 2-0 in the final of the US tournament.
Pipe, number 10 in the South Carolina cast, spent 69 minutes on the court at WakeMed Soccer Park, soccer complex located in Cary, North Carolina, on Sunday, December 12. The two goals of the match were scored by Isaiah Reid in the first half (minutes 1 and 15).
Precisely the Ecuadorian was crucial in Clemson’s qualification for the first division national final. In the semifinals, Fernández scored 1-1 against Notre Dame with a right hand from outside the area that anticipated the reaction of goalkeeper Bryan Dowd (minute 35), in a game that was decided in the penalty shootout (6-5) on Friday, December 10.
Washington, for its part, reached the definition by beating Georgetown (2-1) in the previous phase.
In the postseason, before meeting Notre Dame, Pipe’s team missed Denver (1-0), Kentucky (2-1) and Oregon (1-1, on penalties); against the latter the Ecuadorian scored within 90 minutes.
The NCAA is an association made up of more than a thousand institutions, conferences, organizations, and individuals that carry out the majority of college sports programs (it is not the only one) in the United States.
According to the Association’s website, Pipe was the Tigers’ second top scorer this season, with eight goals in 23 games; The first was Reid, with nine tallies in 22 appearances.
Fernández, born in Guayaquil on February 28, 2000 and who migrated to the United States in 2016, joined Clemson for the 2018-2019 season, according to the Atlantic Coast Conference team’s online platform. (D)
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