Juan Carlos Medinagrateful for football and above all for the institution that gave him the opportunity to First divisionthe Atlasthe truth is that always perspired the yellow and was able to fulfill that dream of going to train every day in Coapa to defend precisely the colors of the America.
Y The blackas they called him in the plains, today retired from footballtold in an interview about a chapter that marked himbut also could bring down the ominous birds of the head of the housewho never believed that his boy would be part of the millionaire.
Even at the same time that the former midfielder achieved his goal of be part of the Americanist disciplinewas able to settle a old debt that he acquired from “morrillo”, as he says.
“I remember once I knocked out my mom’s windowI was practicing free throws at my houseI threw him from the house across the street from my neighbor, because my mother’s garage was like a little square as a goal, I knocked down a window and my mom came out with the belt and wanted to hit me.
“And I told him, don’t hit me, he The day I play in America, I’ll pay youand she told me: ‘how are you going to play in AmericaYou bastard, with that body, you’re dreaming of unattainable things’”.
And came to the Nest…
“After I made my debut at the Atlas I knew that anything could happen, I was doing well, both collectively and individually, and I was surprised that one day I was eating, the phone ringswe still didn’t have my oldest daughter, it was my wife and I, and they say: ‘good afternoon’, he was the president of americaand I couldn’t believe it, I never forget to tell my mom that one day I was going to play in America, and that they talk to you and tell you if you want to belong to the institution, I did not hesitate”.