What a story, what a hit. Everything looks like a substitute, then a Colombian old star shoots the goal of the year from an injury.
The will of people, specialists in particular, is sometimes indescribably large. Another example provided football professional Hugo Rodallego.
It runs the 78th minute in the decisive championship game in the Colombian league. Independiente Santa Fe demands Medellín in the Atanasio Girardot stadium.
The game now turns into the crunch time, the decisive phase. And with Hugo Rodallego, Santa Fe striker, nothing works anymore. The 39-year-old hits his hands in front of his face, cries bitter tears into the jersey, pulls on the niche. The reason is profane, but all the more bitter: the attacker apparently suffered a muscular injury, a strain. Of all things now. Every athlete knows: it’s over, nothing works anymore.
Members and opposing players come to him, comfort him. Actually, Rodallego would have to be replaced. But it turns differently. He still stays on the field for this action.
Discount from your own team: A long ball lands over two stations at the team player Edwar López. With an excellent dribbling, it moves past two opponents into the middle, fits inside. And there is, exactly, exactly, Rodallego – a little further back in the sixteen, because he couldn’t run so quickly with a dragged leg.
Strain cannot stop this striker
With the handbrake and a strain on, he shoots the ball into the goal. Ecstasy.
And even at the goal celebration, he limps on a leg and with a contemplated face to the outline, throws himself down – and lets himself be celebrated. He remains there to be an eternity. Then the replacement follows. From the outside he sees the end of the game.
It is the crucial 2: 1 that brings the championship. With his injured leg, Rodallego becomes a goal hero.
And with 16 goals he secures the top scorer crown in the Colombian league – at the age of 39.
He got around a lot in his career, he ran for Wigan Athletic, Fulham and Trabzonspor, among others. He played 44 times for the Colombian national team.
Does the resignation follow this climax?
He actually wanted to step down after the championship title, he says in an interview with “source”. But now everyone will tell him: I shouldn’t do it, says Rodallego. Exit open.