After touring countless fields around the world, wearing more than a dozen shirts and scoring several historic goals that made his name sound on different newspaper covers throughout the football planet, Vallenato Humberto Osorio Botello wants to close his successful career celebrating and breaking networks in their homeland.
This was confessed by ‘Zorro’ Botello – nicknamed this way in Argentina after an injury forced him to wear a mask – while he was training on a field in the north of the city, waiting to define his new club. “If given the chance, I would be very proud and happy to be in my city. The truth is, I don’t know if it gives you a plus to be in your city, with its people, believing that your city’s team can win titles,” said Botello in dialogue with EL PILÓN in reference to the possibility of reaching the Alianza FC.
THE FORWARD OF THE IMPORTANT GOALS
Osorio Botello is backed by more than 120 goals in his career, but above all the particularity of becoming the player with the important goals. Among his achievements is Santa Fe’s title goal in the prestigious Suruga Bank, and when he made the news in Spain, with the Real Valladolid shirt, after scoring a goal against Real Madrid in the last minutes of the thirty-fifth matchday of the League, causing the merengue team to have no chance of becoming champion.
He also counts among his personal feats the one achieved in 2013, when he made the covers of the Argentine newspapers by scoring three goals against Boca Juniors themselves in the Final Tournament with the San Martín de San Juan club. “Thank God I have been able to represent my city, my country and now I am training for what is to come. We hope that with God’s help something important will come out to continue my career,” said the 35-year-old forward, who left Valledupar at a very young age following the call of América, the club that gave him the opportunity to make his professional debut.
“Unfortunately I left very young, from here to the youth teams of America quite a few years ago, obviously I went through all the clubs here, through the children’s clubs, a pride for me because I was given the possibility back then, when I made Quite a few goals in the departmental zones, that Reinaldo Rueda took me to a minor Colombian team,” Botello recalled.
“WOULD BE A PRIZE FOR ME”
Although there are formally no offers to join the Vallenato team, the forward is seduced by the option of playing in Valledupar after touring the world with his goals.
“I still don’t have a managerial approach, but well, let’s hope that these days if it is possible and God allows it, it would be for me a reward for everything that is the career that I have developed and why not wear the shirts of this club that “It is in the city, it would be a pride for me to be able to score goals here on the field where I scored a lot of goals when I was little and God allows it to be so and that I have the opportunity to wear that shirt with pride,” he said.
