A friend scammed him and he sells a “treasure” to see Vélez in Santiago del Estero
Velez They beat Argentinos Juniors in San Nicolás and will now face Estudiantes de La Plata in the final of the 2024 League Cup. The title match will be next Sunday, May 5 at 3:30 p.m. at the Unique Mother of Cities Stadium of Santiago del Estero. In just a few hours, Fortín fans sold out the plane tickets that the Liniers club had available, however not everyone has the possibility of traveling to cheer on their team. This is the case of Tomas Corteswho after being scammed by a friend He made a drastic decision: put a precious object up for sale to be able to cheer on the club of his loves against Pincha.
“Good people, I am obliged to sell my pc to be able to travel this weekend to see Vélez in Santiago in the League Cup final. The PC is an airplane, everything works (6 without interest in addition). Someday I will buy one again, today the priority is the CAVS,” he published on his X account.
“When I found out that the final was going to be in Santiago I knew that I wasn’t going to be able to go, that I had to do something else. This summer with my daughter, Juana, we were going to go on vacation to Brazil but a very close person scammed me and we couldn’t go anywhere. As soon as we qualified I said ‘that’s it, I’ll take it to Santiago for the weekend’. I showed her photos of the landscapes and she got excited,” Tomás told the TN signal.
Tomás is from Boulogne, San Isidro, he is 24 years old and works in the administrative sector of a gastronomic group. “The job came to me at a difficult time because I had been fired from my previous job and these beautiful people arrived who really saved me,” he says and relates that what happened to him at the beginning of the year was one of the worst disappointments of his life. .
“A close person had asked me to borrow money, a lot and in dollars, he was doing his business with that money and he was returning it to me little by little, until there came a point where I began to suspect, I spoke to more people and it turns out that at every turn the world was doing the same thing to him and the next day he disappeared,” he acknowledges.
In total, the Fortín fan lost four thousand dollars (a little more than four million pesos at the current exchange rate), money that he used to buy and sell products, so he was left without money and without a job.
“I had started from the bottom and already had a good base, from one day to the next it broke me in the middle. He was my job, he was financially calm, I spent my time delivering merchandise,” he says.
The difficult decision to put your computer up for sale
Tomás says that his computer is more than that for him because it means a special connection with his friends, an escape, a way to meet even when they are far away. It was what allowed him to “escape a bitter reality” on more than one occasion.
“We don’t get together much, we don’t go out dancing, we’re from a different background. Maybe our Saturday night is to connect and laugh ourselves out there. The nice thing is to turn on the PC, see one of the kids connected and they join in little by little, that’s the nice thing,” she says.
However, despite everything the device means, Tomás wants to make that sacrifice because Vélez is one of the things that makes him happiest. “Juanita and Vélez today are the greatest thing I have emotionally. I cried with Godoy Cruz, I cried with Argentinos and I don’t want to imagine if we won the final. I experienced Vélez’s last title when I was 15 years old and I was not as aware as I am now of dimensioning it, it would be an incredible relief so I am willing to get rid of the PC to experience it.”
Tomás is not the only one: Javier, another Vélez fan who sells his treasures
Just as Tomás is willing to part with an object dear to his beloved Vélez, Javier is willing to let go of several of them.
“Without even knowing the value of the trip to Santiago, I already know that it is totally out of my reach. Can I ask you for a hand to spread some things for sale? I start with this original retro short from the 90s,” wrote the 23-year-old who lives in Morón and is studying Communication at the University of La Matanza. Among the objects there are t-shirts, shirts, pants and a special garment.
“It is out of my reach to pay for a trip like this in cash, so I had no choice but to sell the few clothes I have to see if we make it and work triple the amount,” he tells TN and details: “The short It was given as a gift by a friend from Rosario to whom I told the situation with all the guilt in the world. He understood it again because he is a Newell’s fan and has the same passion that I have for my team that he has for his.”
While he looks forward to being able to collect enough to be at the Madre de Cities on Sunday, he assures without hesitation: “For me, Vélez is everything, I have followed it since I was very young, my brother made me a fan. We are doing these crazy things that the situation and the context forces us to do and God willing that the objective can be rescued.”
