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February 17, 2021 – 17h44

The Italian Jew Sergio Gonella dio the three final pitches of the 1978 World Cup and Leopoldo Luque, looking around, levitating his braces in triumph. Ambos are dead ya. Gonella, alibiado de haberse sacado de encima une pesa de una tonelada: era un partis pariqué de encauzar, tal vez peor que eso, verschriklik. For the sake of importance, the environment and why it lasts. Argentina wants to be, porvin, champion, Holanda not descending another subcamp. Luque, with the roster and the camouflage uniform product of a golfer with the antebrazo of a Dutch defender, but happy, exultant. It was the last time it took place in this World Cup. Y lo más leve. One more abolition, it is only physical. With all security, no other footballer in the history of the World Cup during the World Cup will test the adversaries of the Argentine midfielder, proving that his courage is as strong as an obstacle course, a one and another appearance.

“It’s not like death to increase people”, ironically Borges. ¿Fue un jugador buitengewoon, Luque …? There was an important, very mental delay that occurred with the pelota, in terms of having started offensively due to its technical capability. The same goes for it: “It was 10, but Union Cotro to Victorio Cocco, who was a crack, impossible to lose, so that Juan Carlos Lorenzo told me: ‘From now on you will be 9’ And quedé ahí ‘. ¿Era un goleador remarkable …? Nee, arañó los 140 tantos en toda su campña, pero hizo los goles justos in los lugares y momentos clave. In 1974, some transgressors marked the transition to the ascension of the Union of Santa Fe to the First Division. In 1975, at a certificate of 38 fechas, apenas anotó ocho, peros dos fueron a River, uno de local y otro de visita, lo cual determinó que el club de la banda roja avquiera su pase. Llegó al Monumental un viernes a la noche, debutó horas despuente frente a Boca en La Bombonera en la fecha inicial del Torneo Nacional 1975 y convertión el gol del triunfo por 2 a 1. Y en el Mundial 1978 hizo cuatro veces red, uno a Hungría (2-1), otro to France (also 2-1) and two to Peru (6-0). Geen le sobraban, pero le alcanzaban.

A fine from 2016 to Diego Borinsky, of El Gráfico: “My ultimate idol is Johan Cruyff. Estaba en la con con Unión, veia el Mundial 1974 por television y hacía cuentas, pensaba si el siguiente podría tener yo una chance. And I remember his things, in the 1978 World Cup I used the number 14, by abecedario, the same number as Cruyff ”.

All costs in Luque, deambular for minor league clubs and regional tournaments. With 25 years left to play in Primera B. Persistió, luchó y un día salió el sol también para él. The ascension with Union, the reconciliation, the Selection … Opportunity was his ally, his patron saint. Siendo todavía jugador unionista, Menotti le dio un chance in la Copa América ante Venezuela en Caracas: ganó Argentina 5 a 1 con un gol de Kempes, otro de Ardiles y …¡tres de Luque …! Insolite, more goals than Kempes, the Haaland or the Mbappé of that time. And she qued with the celestial and white. Wine of the World Cup and Argentina gave a powerful, virtuoso delirium: Bertoni, Luque and Kempes.

To the goal of the star ante Hungary hung the drama. The 6th of June of 1978 Argentina takes on its most difficult match, either a fortified France with Platini, Rocheteau, Bossis, Tresor, Battiston, Lacombe … Iban 1-1 when, near the final, Luque received a pass from Ardiles and sacco a bomb that took place in the Demanes Ark. “My intention was to develop in Ardiles, but the brand was running with it, just as the ball was flying and it was with all the tools. Ya cuando iba a mitad de camino sabía que iba a entrar, porque el arquero estaba quieto todavía, se tiró tarde. Al ratito me luxé el codo … ”

Gritó ese gol as a poseíd sin saber lo que había pasade, lo que pasaría. Argentinië se puso en ganancia, pero un par de jugadas después Luque cayó mal y el codo se le subió casi hasta hombro. El dolor del brazo era inhable. “I accommodate the code, I pusieron the brazo in cabestrillo and I mandaron for the cloakroom. Pero hice dos pas, me accordé de mi famili y volví al campo, porque el Flaco ya había hecho los cambios y no podiums quedarnos con diez. And because I agree with my father and my mother. Imagine for a second you were transposed into the karmic driven world of Santa Fe. In order for me to feel that I was fired, I played a role with the brazen colgado ”. A fea lesion.

No series lo peor. This sale goes through the parties in the locker room. Before the party, he travels to Buenos Aires to watch the game, killing his husband Oscar in a car accident. “My father gave me the order that I did not advise him to play”. If the tragedy enters the next morning, in concentration, it will take its toll on the story. “My whole family was here, rare, but I thought I had traveled through my lesion. The road to my life was sent to the bottom, llorando, I would seek my life and my life and I would die: ‘El Cacho tuvo un accidente y se mató’. What can be said about what is happening at the moment! ”.

Instantly hizo the 470 kilometers to Santa Fe. It was decided not to take part in the World Cup this week, and between the injury and the loss, there will be a return. Faltó in the next day and Argentina lost 1-0 against Italy. ‘Tenés que volver, ¿no ves que sin vos pierden …?’, Me dijo mi viejo. Para mi papá, yo era el mejor del mundo. Falté también ante Polonia y al día siguiente me sume a la concentration in Rosario ”.

Vendor, infiltrator, supporter of pain, but there was ante Brasil. “Le Pedí a Menotti jugar y anduve mal. My brazo was a morcilla. Practice caidas in training. Fue otra batalla más, nos matamos a patadas. And to the top, one of them, Oscar, I met a codazo in a somersault and I gave him all the black ”. In the next, less painful, he got a double in Peru and played the final. Lame, exhausted, terminated as champion.

It’s the story of a warrior who lost his battle with Covid. Our respect, champion. (O)