2022-08-11
He was barely a baby when his father, the remembered Walter “Lips” Martínez He made history with Honduras by qualifying for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Today, he dreams of following the legacy that his father left behind and is already following in his footsteps.
We are talking about Julian Elias Martinez Murillothe last child and only boy who had the ex-soccer player Catracho “El Pery”, who passed away on August 11, 2019 after marking a nice career in national and international football.
Julian was born in June 2009. When his father played the World Cup in South AfricaHe was barely a year old. She is currently 13 and is already a figure in the children’s categories of the MLS Next in the United States, since he was recently called up to the League All-Star Game.
Born in the state of Florida, but resides in Massachusetts For a decade, she has lived with her mother Naty and her four sisters, Keydel (22), Cindy (21), Keyry (18) and Shelsie Martínez (16).
Julian He plays, and always has, with the Boston Bolts Academy, where he has appeared in different children’s tournaments and in several cities in the United States, attracting the attention of the academies of the MLS as New England Revolution y San José Earthquakes.
The child is ambidextrous, he plays as a forward and left back, always wearing the number 15 that his father used when he defended the five-star nation.
His height barely reaches, for now, one meter seventy (1.70 m), so he is almost the size of his father’s height.
His mom Nate She has refrained from giving her son a team at such an early age, since she expects more offers due to her talent, something that her husband, “Pery”, advised her in life.
New England has offered Julian to join the team. San José only follows the track because of the past that “Pery” had in said team.
”Walter used to take the boy to training, but as a child my son did not give importance to football. It happened once during practice that he sat down and scolded Julian in front of all of his teammates.
He told him: ‘You are very undisciplined, you have to be more disciplined, I lost a lot for not being like that when I was a player,'” he told DIEZ the wife of the former player, ensuring that the child now puts this advice into practice.
Since his father died, the boy Martínez He has become more involved in knowing his roots despite the distance, since before he used to travel to Honduras annually, but the last time he did it was to bury his father.
Julian has as a reference in football two catrachos who are Antony “Choco” Lozano y Romell Kyoto. He usually sees the Cádiz striker in his games against big teams in the Spanish league, while he follows the track of “Romantic” with Montréal CF.
His dream is to play Honduras with the teams where his father, the “lips” became a figure: the Victoria, where he made his debut in the early 2000s, and the Marathon, where he shone in the past decade.
Yes ok Julian Elijah He barely masters Spanish, catracha blood boils through his veins and his greatest dream is to wear the H on his chest to continue the legacy of Walter “El Pery” Martínez.