In that discussion of americanist gatheringswhen you have to list from one to ten the best goalkeepers in the history of the club, the name of Adrian Chavez is one that sounds insistently.
The goalkeeper emerged from Atlético Españolremembered for his spectacularity under the crossbar of the Americabut also for a chapter in which Paulo Cesar Falcao he sent him to the field as a striker, when he wore a rasta look, in that controversy to be qualified he almost always appears at least in the top-threebeside Guillermo Ochoa or Héctor Miguel Zeladaof whom many years was a shadow.
But the anecdote of Black Chavezas he likes to be called, does not limit himself, because between that wave of flashes, he returns to the memory of that afternoon when saved two penalties against Cruz Azul at the Azteca Stadiumin the so-called Young Classic. Multi-champion with the Most Hated and reference, this goalkeeper distinguished himself for being good at breaking with shots from eleven steps.
CHÁVEZ, ON THE RIGHT SIDE
1987-88 season. Day 36. Blue Cross-America. Machine was serving as a local that afternoon at the Colossus of Santa Ursula y the referee, José Antonio Garza and Ochoareleased with the whistle, scored up to four penalties: three for Machine and one for Eagles.
Adrian Camacho He had put the Coapa team up, scoring the 80th goal in the tournament for his squad and then the whistle came for the first foul in the area and the show of the Nazarene seeing everything as an infraction.
“I remember that in that game we were 4-2 and they scored three penalties against us; the first wrote it down for me Armando Romero (strong and angled), the second he took it himself and I remember that he threw it again to the left side and I stopped it; then he threw it Agustín Manzoalso to the left and I stop it the same, now with a slap.
“For me and for the team it was a great game and victory, and I think it must be one of the most spectacular duels between these two teams, surely both fans enjoyed it a lot”.
adrián went from villain to hero, because after failing in the technique and allowing the 3-2 of Romeroprevented the same Armando tied and that Manzo would approach the The Ferris Wheel.
The fourth entry in that match, from Carlos Hermosilloit was a great goal, and the rest of Adrian Camacho, Gonzalo Farfan and Antonio Carlos Santosthe latter from the stain, not to vary.
And Chávez, regarding his strongest side to break these executions, reveals that “the first penalty I saved in the First Division was by shooting to the rightI did not have a preferential side, because I remember that the Final that we lost against Pumas, in which the great goal was scored by the Tuca (Ricardo Ferretti), Luis Flores he also throws it to my right side in the Ida match and even though I grazed it, I couldn’t stop it.
“But I think that if we do a percentage of penalties taken, I think that 70 per cent goes to the left side of the goalkeeper, I’m pretty sure.”
“GAMES WERE VERY VIBRANT”
The World Cup with Mexico in the United States 94talks about the ingredients that cooked up one more rivalry in Mexican soccer: “It is called the Young Classic, because I remember that in the 70s very fierce and passionate matches began to be played; later in the 80s we played a Final in which we finished Champions and then it took on greater significance and this rivalry piqued.
“These games were very vibrant, it was very difficult for them to end in zero, they had a lot of goals and the fans enjoyed them a lot”.
After a new victory over Cruz Azul in this 1987-88 season, America was crowned champion against Pumas and for the game this Saturday, April 30, the current goalkeeper predicts “1-0, or 2-0 nil in our favor.”
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