Even with a slight curvature on its low belly that not even the baggy shirt is able to hide, Christian cave skilled skillfully Within the area and with an agility that does not belong, it turns with subtlety on its axis with the ball already glued to the left foot and draws a crossed, dry, neat and lethal right. A great goal. The scene seems to be in slow motion, which is how most of the time is played at almost 3,400 meters above sea level. The level of dexterity However, it is also a missile to nostalgia because it immediately transports us to the ‘Aladino’ of 2019. Is it very soon to get excited to get again or is it better to expect a better repertoire this Friday in Matute against Alianza Lima?
The day in Cusco starts very early. Although the sky almost always dawns clear, with sprouts of a radiant sun that touches the face docilely, the dry cold forces to remain almost always warmed. It is not a pleasant scenario for Christian, accustomed to the joy from the hot weather that fosters a good cebiche and an icy drink. The last weeks however, it has not had much to rejoice.
He is 33 years old, is away from the Peruvian team and all the love he won in the fan today seems to become disapproval.
Although his sentimental situation is more stable, dealing with a separation with three younger children in between keep him tense and worried. That should add the continuous scandals or rumors that feed the show programs. Music, his second vice after football, helps him clear. Sometimes he asks that on the radio they locate the station of the new Q and wait for his new topic to sound “Until the end of the world”a cumbia that has launched with her partner, singer Pamela Franco, and in which she also intervenes with her voice thanks to the technology that allows her to go well and tuned, as if to demonstrate why now she is nicknamed ‘the older brewer’ in the concerts.
Christian Cueva. (Photo: Ciencian)
Cueva expects your third song to be a hit. Two weeks have passed and the single already has a million views on YouTube. The production of the theme has taken away hours. Coincidentally, for those dates the then coach of Csiano Cristian Díaz stopped taking it into account.
Rumors suggested a possible inconduct of cave, which had arrived repeatedly late to training or simply disagreements with the technician. The fact is that he had more time to devote himself to music.
Also to return to training conscientiously. José Neyra, the personal coach with whom Cueva reached his best version, has once again his right hand to recover the physicist lost three years.
Makes the gesture of a cumbia step as soon as he listens to his hit on the radio and releases a laugh that is always replicated by those who accompany him. “I hope to maintain, because that is the idea, of being able to play, of being able to have happiness, for me, happiness is to be able to play football, it is the biggest thing I have,” An excited cave says. The duel against Sport Huancayo and Cienciano expired 2-1 thanks to two goals from ‘Aladino’. The microphones look for him and he knows the protagonist.
Two years and three months ago that Cueva did not write down a double. The previous match had made an assistance after much. In recent years, its irregularity has been the most regular in its performance. His passage through Alianza Lima was a fiasco, then he spent almost a year without playing until in August 2024 he signed for Cienciano.
With his new partner Pamela Franco, Cueva has launched as a cumbia singer | Photo: Instagram / Composition EC
Today, with coach Carlos Desio, he has regained confidence in the squad and has played again. The relationship with Desio is special and not recent. They know each other in 2019, when Cueva played in Santos in Brazil and was directed by Jorge Sampaoli. At that time, Desio was Sampaoli technical assistant.
Technician and player shared time and experiences at Peixe. About ten months. Their relationship was not friendly, but recognition and having shared previously makes them close and trust arises. That confidence leads to absolute support.
That change in the atmosphere is vital for cave. He reminds, somehow, Gareca’s apapachos. They drive him to commit. Maybe and that is why, like Rocky Balboa, he launched himself to train in the streets. In the streets of Cusco, in a garden, in fresh air, like a free soul, as a fighter who represents the people. The gym between four walls is small.
Something else unites them: Gareca. Desio shared Camerino with Gareca in 1993, when they both played for the Avellaneda Independiente. That experience, which is also an excuse to find things in common, sealed the pact between desio and cave.
“Christian is a very quality player, the one he has is of the different players and out there in Santos in the defensive part, he did not cost him much what the setback is and the brand, he does not feel it so much and Sampaoli demands it a lot in the players, not only in the offensive part but on the defensive demonstrating”Said Desio a few years ago, when he was consulted by Cueva without knowing that 30 months after those statements they would work together. There is appreciation, there is respect.
Christian Cueva left Alianza Lima without being able to score goals./ SYSTEM
Physically it is better. Far away from the rigor of the elite, still distant from a level that allows it to compete at the selection level. Still, committed, still his game distils the humor of a newly retired footballer: runs little, well located and with the clean and successful pass.
He is already 33 years old, but his physique some other years. Fight against the calendar to try to return to your prime. He knows it. For now, this Friday he has a great opportunity to affirm his reinvention: return to Matute to face Alianza Lima, the team he said and who was criticized.
Reinserting at the competitive level implies leaving evidence of this evolutionary process. The morbidity for shining before his exequipo is also a way of saying that Aladdin’s magic is back.
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He is a total sport sub -deputy and transverse content of the newspaper El Comercio. He was head of the El Comercio Sports Zone. He began as a journalist in 2009 in Diario Correo. He has been Digital Editor, General Editor and Journalistic Director of the newspaper El Bocón, also General Editor of Diario Depor. Special Submitted to the 2014 World Cup.
