This Wednesday, September 14, Santa Marta will host perhaps one of the most exciting matches of Unión Magdalena in recent years. Not only because his pass to the final of the Colombia Cup is at stake, but because of the rival: Junior from Barranquilla.
In this important chapter for the history of the ‘Cyclone’ could not miss one of his most loyal fans: Jose de los Santos Ariza Vasquezbetter known as ‘Balín’.
The popular ‘Balín’ will return to the stadium to encourage the ‘banana eleven’ after more than a year of not attending the sports scene.
Isolation due to the pandemic, Covid-19 and some health complications, had distanced ‘Balín’ from the Sierra Nevada, but this Wednesday he will return to his great passion: sounding the siren in the stadium.
However, the entrance to the stadium of the siren of ‘Balín’ is one of the questions, taking into account that the Magdalena Union, through Resolution No. 007 of September 8, 2022, established several regulations to assist the Sierra Nevada, among them the prohibition of flags, pennants, banners, billboards, musical instruments and audio playback devices such as loudspeakers, speakers, megaphones and any similar item.
“With the favor of God, tomorrow (Wednesday) we will be in the stadium. Let’s hope they let my dad in with the siren, because if they don’t, I think he won’t enter the stadium and will go home. In 2019 they wanted to do the same thing, they were not going to let him in and thanks to the fans who attended the stadium that time they let him in”, expressed his son José de los Santos Ariza.
He added that the family has everything ready for his father’s return to the stadium, “We even opened a page for my dad, it’s called Balín Orgullo Samario, there you can follow the return of ‘Balín’ to the stadium”.
The second leg match for the semifinal of the Cup will be played from 6:00 in the afternoon and ‘Balín’ with his siren he hopes to encourage the ‘Cyclone’ and see him again in a final, as he had to experience it in 1989 in the ‘Edward Santos’ when Unión left Junior on the road.