Every time a player Lima Alliance they ask him about Farfán, there are no certainties, only wishes. Hernan Barcosthe Argentine who held it on his shoulders to celebrate last year’s title, has been one of the last: “Hopefully I can be there as soon as possible. I don’t know if for the classic, after or before. I couldn’t tell that.”
The ‘Pirate’ is honest: nobody can guarantee when he will return to the courts. Neither the Victorian medical department, which prefers to remain silent, nor the Farfan who motivates himself with self-help messages on a daily basis, as recorded in his Instagram stories.
In recent days there is a very strong current that Farfan could reappear in the Peruvian soccer classic against Universitario de Deportes on September 4 for date 10 of the Closing Tournament. It would be cinematographic: one of the last idols of the blue and white town, decimated by chronic injuries and the tyranny of the years, planted before the rival of always, in Matute.
There are seventeen days ahead for that triumphant return. What could change in these two and a half weeks so that ‘Foquita’ can make himself available to Bustos and be able to alternate a few minutes? for now, Farfan he attends the Lima de Chorrillos Cultural Club, where the Blue and Whites carry out their practices. But, as has been the case since all of 2022, he is only doing it to strengthen his left knee, afflicted by weak cartilage.
“I know that Jefferson Farfán is better. But he still does not train with us, he is doing therapy and strengthening ”declared yesterday Yordi Vílchez, the team’s best defender since 2021. Vílchez possesses an optimism that the average intimate fan has lost. The last time Farfan dressed in shorts and touched a ball in an official match on November 28, 2021, in the final against Sporting Cristal.
In these two seasons, since he returned to La Victoria, the comrade of Paolo Guerrero He has only played fourteen games and has scored just four goals. All important. But for now the highlights of Farfan in his second stage in the club of his loves they fit in a video of a couple of minutes.
At the beginning of the month, Javier Sáenz, a reporter for the GOL PERÚ network, gave his impressions on the state of Jefferson Farfan. More than relieved, it worried her. More than doubt, she confirmed. “The pain does not let him work calmly”he commented harshly.
But Farfan don’t lose hope in yourself. “Give up? Silence please”, he wrote on his social networks. And immediately, he provoked the sincere support of his friends. “It was never and will never be your option”the heart Rinaldo Cruzado, category 84 like him. The Uruguayan Jonathan Lacerdapart of the 2021 champion team, also wished him well: “Always forward”. The Argentinian Nicolás Taglianiwhich he did as a couple when Farfán was taking off, back in 2003, was more emotional: “Facha friend, you are the ‘1’ and you will always be the ‘1’”.
The situation has reached its limit: there is a large sector of the fans that claims him for charging without playing. With the small detail of being the best paid on campus. Putting on the blue and white again before the ‘U’ would lessen the criticism. It would lower the volume of claims. He would give her another air. In a sense, he could save the year for her. As long as they win, of course.
Some theoreticians of this sport usually say that the soccer player is the best doctor of himself, because he knows for sure how he is and how much he can give. He’s Jefferson Farfan your most qualified doctor? Heading to the ninth month of the year, there are only desires and desires.