The jersey of the Pontevedra CF player Rufo, who moved a 10-year-old boy to tears

Federico Maciel is 10 years old. Go to Pasarón every Sunday. It is the station in the north, where he sits with his sister Candela and his father, also Federica. Even if Pontevedra CF loses, he, with a garnet heart, always enjoys his team. While many children admire players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi or Benzema, Federico applauds every step redheaded. “I like him since he came to the club, he plays very well,” says this ten-year-old fan. For this young man from Pontevedra, the burgundy striker is the favorite. For years she has been dreaming about his shirt and being able to talk to him. Not only the one that was bought in the club store is valid, he wanted a football player. Then his mother enters the scene, Adriana Briñon. And when you least expected it. The stage was far from Pasarón. It all started in Mercadona.

Federico’s mother bumped into the player in a supermarket and didn’t hesitate: «As soon as I saw him, I told him that my son is a big fan of his, that we will see him every Sunday. I asked him for the t-shirt he plays with, the one that is sweaty at the end of the game, but he told me he couldn’t give them to me. That was it the passion of a child for a player who Adriana He offered to pay her, but please agree to his request. And he warned him that at the next game he will go to the stadium with the inscription “Rufo, I want your shirt. I’m Frederick.” And so it was, Sunday after Sunday he carried the poster, but Rufo was injured and could not fulfill the dream of this boy from Pontevedra.

In the match against Algeciras, Federico returned with his poster. It is possible that Rufo has already recovered from his injury. In the 65th minute, he entered Charles’ place and the kid clearly saw it. I shout and shout the whole game so that the striker sees the poster. At the end of the game, seeing that the player was approaching the desired area, he ran through the stands to sneak into it from the north end. “He ran into a policeman who told him to ‘go away’ and the boy didn’t know if he meant him to go back to his seat or to approach Rufus, but he went back to his stands crying,” explains Briñón, who clarifies: “Seeing him like this, my husband told him to come back again to greet him and they were able to access without a problem”.

As soon as Rufo saw the boy’s tears, he did not hesitate to give him the shirt and fulfill Federico’s dream. “I have it on the shelf in my room,” he says after his mother explains to him that it continues as the player gave it to him. He couldn’t even wash it. He is on the altar that has it Federico to Pontevedra CF. He believes in him to save the team in a year that is “very difficult because there are very strong teams in the First League”.