Racing will play this Saturday against Riestra in what will be the last home game of the first semester. From 6 p.m., the Academy will receive Fabbiani’s team with many casualties with the great objective of staying at the top of the Professional League. And in the last hours, Iván Pillud took an unexpected path that could leave a mark on him.
Pillud might not have a farewell to Racing
What is it about? About what The historic right back will be absent from the match between Racing and Riestra. Pillud suffers from a feverish state that left him out of the last training session and everything indicates that he will not be able to be on the substitute bench. What’s so painful about this? That This Saturday could be Iván’s last game in the Cilindro, since his contract ends in the middle of the year and has not been renewed for now. Although he was not going to play as a starter and had little chance of entering, he did deserve at least a standing ovation from the entire stadium. It seems that he will not be able to have it, forced by a health problem.
The absence of Pillud will not be the only loss that Racing will have to receive Riestra. For different reasons, the attack was decimated for this match. On the one hand there are the injured Maravilla Martínez and Johan Carbonero. The scorer has a sprained right ankle since the match with Luqueño and will not be in the game. In turn, the Colombian suffered a muscle strain in the same match. On the other hand, Juanfer Quintero left for Colombia to join his national team in advance.
The historic numbers on the side
The right back, so far this semester, barely added any minutes in the 4-4 draw against Belgrano for the first round of the Professional League. In the Academy he has played 321 games in Racing, with eight goals and 13 assists. And thus, he has just equaled Chango Cárdenas as the fifth player in history with the most appearances with this shirt. He is located below Claudio Úbeda (329), Agustín Mario Cejas (334), Gustavo Costas (337) and Natalio Perinnetti (405). Pillud won five titles at the Academy and is the most successful on the team. He won the 2014 Transition Tournament, 2018-2019 Super League, 2019 and 2022 Champions Trophy and 2023 International Super Cup).
