Juan Carlos Pajaro is one of those fans who saw Real Cartagena rise for the first time in 1999, then be their champions of the A in 2005 and then obtain a new promotion with the auriverdes with the so-called Thoroughbred team in 2008.
It can be said that he will be a fan of the heroic team all his life, but he admits that he has been losing love for the team that was ratified last Sunday as the bottom of the championship, after the 3-1 defeat in Bogotá against Fortaleza. Read here: Real Cartagena disappoints a child on his birthday
“That has been a lot to suffer with Real Cartagena, we have been in Primera B for 10 years and the truth is that promotion is ruled out this year. To return to the A you have to take a radical turn and I don’t think that will happen for now. We don’t have a team to fight anything important, I’m sorry to say it, but that’s how it is”, assured Juan Carlos.
The fan said that for a while he had a fight with his wife because more space was needed in the closet of his apartment and the 12 original shirts he had hanging there took up space. “For two years she came with the same issue, that she give them away, that I get rid of them and I opposed it, but recently I gave my arm to twist and I had to give away the shirts, I couldn’t do anything else about it, it hurts, but aha, that equipment does not help one or to preserve things that have a sentimental value, “he said.
Was beyond. “Look when Real Cartagena descended in 2012 Jhosue David was in the mother’s belly. My son is now 10 years old, he finished preschool, this year he is finishing elementary school and Real nothing that goes up to A. And although I have always instilled in him a love for the playground team, for Real Cartagena, he has already decided to be a fan of Junior, he is a boy who likes soccer, he watches a lot of games, he knows about this sport and I will respect his decision,” he adds.
He assures that two years ago he began to take Jhosue David to the Jaime Morón stadium, which helped him take photos with Real players looking for him to fall in love with the team, but finally he did not manage to make his son a fan of the team of his loves.
“Now he accompanies me to the stadium, but he hesitates, he tells me that he is going to do the two for me, but that he knows that Real is going to lose. Children at that age already understand everything, they watch too much international soccer and in Colombia they choose the one they like the most, ”he explains.
It hurts him to have given away the shirts because there is a lot of history there, many feelings of joy, of pain, memories that he wanted to have for life with the team he preferred as a child.
But on the other hand, Juan Carlos was able to please his wife so that she would make use of that space that was needed to locate other things that had nowhere to put them and made the apartment look messy.
Pajaro assures that he will continue to push for Real, that he will no longer go to the stadium as before, since it will no longer be a priority in his life. “Many who lived through the promotion in 1999, the subtitle of the A and everything that has come after, got pissed off and forgot about Real. In me I have almost decided that it is not a priority, for now I will not go to the stadium, but I will surely return one day. I am going to give myself a break, besides Jhosue does not want to accompany me, today I decide to do other things with my family on weekends, wishing the best luck to the team and hoping that one day this will change, ”he concludes.
In this tournament, Real has played five games, losing 4 and winning 1. They have 3 points and are last in the table, which has generated an atmosphere of absolute disappointment among their fans.