Deportivo Pereira was consecrated for the first time Colombian soccer champion. The team led by Alejandro Restrepo equalized in regulation time with Independent Medellin and in the penalty shootout, with a Harlen Castle sensational, he kept the title.
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Precisely the great hero of the night spoke in the transmission of the match regarding the historical event experienced in the Hernan Ramirez Villegas and made a revelation regarding his sporting future, news that did not go down well with the Matecana fans.
“I didn’t want to throw it out like that because I want people to stay happy, but yeah, I said so. I think this was the last game I played with Pereira in these times”, the goalkeeper surprisingly sentenced in Win Sports.
He added that His contract with the Risaraldense team ends this year and the truth I’m not going to renew it”.
The reasons for ‘Chipi Chipi’, as he is nicknamed, are aimed at ”I want to give myself an air” y “we have to wait what comes with my life”.
“I have been here for many years. I want to give myself an air because I set myself many objectives: promote the team, keep it in the A, be able to reach an international cup and be champion. I think that of the players who can set goals, I am one and I can say that I achieved them all ”, he deepened.
He also indicated that all of the above was achieved by being “part of that process”, arguing that “I was the only player on the squad who played all 28 games this semester”.
With the above on the table, ‘Chipi Chipi’ would become one of the great casualties of the club for the Libertadores Cup of the next year, contest to which they directly reach the group stage.
Castillo also took the opportunity to praise the work of the other great hero of Pereira: Leonardo Castrowho closed the championship as leader in the scorers table Thank you to your 15 annotations.
“I told him that it is amazing that a player scores 15 goals. I told him that he had to make 28 because they have eaten too many”, he joked.
“I owe them too because when they score 2-3 goals, I stay relaxed. I don’t know if you saw that Before the penalties I was clean and I owe that to my central defenders, the full-backs, the midfielders and the forwards themselves who are the first defenders”.