22nd minute for Joselu

A racinguist fan posted a magnificent initiative on social media, using the 22nd minute of Racing matches to pay tribute to Joselu, the best goalscorer in the history of Racing, who is now sporting the worst moments of his career. He is suffering from a chronic knee injury that could keep him away from football, at least at a high level. The player is treated with platelets, extracted from his own blood, which are injected into the affected area of ​​the knee to improve it.

The Palmeira striker goes through all these sufferings with the firm idea of ​​being available for a few minutes. Everything points to the fact that they could be the last with the Racinguista shirt, with which he scored 125 goals in nine seasons in which he defended the Racing de Ferrola shirt.

Cristóbal Parralo, the coach of Racing, indicated that Joselu was not there to play, that he continued to work on his recovery from the injury he suffered. He explained what it meant for the team to lose a player with his goalscoring ability. Namely, despite not being well, he scored five goals in the barely 700 minutes he played this season.

If this is finally Joselu’s farewell season as a Racing player and if, given the stakes, Cristóbal Parralo cannot give him a few minutes on the pitch, the ovation for Joselu in the 22nd minute, which is the number of the number he wears on the back of his shirt, was would be a more than deserved tribute to one of the players who loved Racing the most. In this case, Joselu not only smashed his face against opposition defenses to score goals, but also turned down important financial offers to continue wearing green. Whenever he agreed to leave, as in the case of Nástica de Tarragona, it was because the club asked him to, since he was getting good money from his sale.

The striker of Palmeira, another racing uist, even had the opportunity to play in the First League, in the ranks of Almeria, although he never wanted to leave Racing.

Hundreds have passed through the Ferrol team, in its more than a hundred-year long history, probably more than one or two thousand footballers, although Joselu is one of those who wrote a golden page in the history of this club, both with goals and the affection for the club in which came in 2014.