Olimpia, which appears as a judge in the definition of the Apertura 2024 tournament, will not be able to count on its top star, the Uruguayan goalkeeper, Gastón Olveira, who will not be in this Wednesday’s game against Libertad due to injury.
His replacement will be Juan Espínola, the Paraguayan goalkeeper who has registered only one official match in the 2024 season and who could be playing his last game in the fringed goal.
The last official match that Juan Espínola had was on January 19, on the first date of the Apertura 2024 tournament, when he played the final minutes of the 1-1 draw against Sol de América. He came on with 20 minutes left due to Gastón Olveira’s injury, who then returned in the next game and never let go of the goal.
In this way, the Paraguayan goalkeeper will once again have an official game after 4 months and 15 days (138 days in total).
JUAN ESPÍNOLA’S LAST 3 MATCHES WITH OLIMPIA:
11/25/2023: Olimpia 1-3 Libertad – Date 21
12/1/2023: General Caballero 0-1 Olimpia – Date 22
01/19/2024: Olimpia 1-1 Sol de América – Date 1
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Goalkeeper Pablo Gavilán spoke up loud and told what happened in the 2015 Clausura final, when Olimpia became champion.
The athlete trained in Cerro Porteño confirmed the existence of the famous “briefcases” in local football.
In this sense, his statements came in the context of the definition of the Apertura 2024 tournament, which today finds Olimpia as judge of Libertad and Cerro Porteño, given the extreme need of the azulgranas, who light candles for a miracle.
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“There are briefcases, there are. To me They offered me 350 million guaraníes and a truck of the year to go less against Olimpia, when I was in Santaní (2015)”Shooting.
Gavilán explained that at that time “a woman” acted as contact between him and “a fringe leader”, but He did not accept the proposal. That match in question ended with a blank tie and, plus Cerro’s victory against Sol, led to a ‘very final’.
Later, the classic was played with Cerro Porteño in Saxony, where Olimpia lowered its 40th star.
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Nacional faces Cerro Porteño this Wednesday, being one of the judges who can define the outcome of the Apertura tournament.
This match is presented to the Academy on a very important day, since this June 5 celebrates 120 years of history, because on a day like this but in 1904 the club was founded.
To pay a well-deserved tribute to its beginnings, Nacional will use a beautiful commemorative t-shirt remembering the first colors that represented the club, which was formed with a group of student friends from the National College of the Capital.
The shirt is white with green stripes, similar to the first one used by the club, and the tricolor rectangular shield with the initials CNF (National Foot Ball Club, the name under which it was founded).
At the bottom right, there is a patch that says: “Nacional Football Club. Limited Edition. 120 years of tricolor tradition. Founded in 1904.”
