It’s not the first time Roger Martinez and Fernando Ortiz share a dressing room, since the attacker and the current coach of América met in Argentina, when both played for Racing of Avellaneda.
It was in 2013 when the nicknamed ‘Tanque’ began his career in professional football debuting for Racing, a team in which an already veteran also played. Ferdinand Ortizso they were partners for a year, because in 2014, Ortiz decided to hang up his boots to start his career as a coach.
That same year, the coffee attacker went on loan to the Santamarina club and in 2015 to Aldosivi from Argentina and returned to the Avellaneda team in 2016, where he only played for one semester.
After that, he emigrated to Chinese soccer, then to Villarreal and finally ended up in the Americawhere he has been a member since 2018 and where he is now reunited with Ortiz, but now as his coach.
Perhaps it is for this reason that, before Tolucathe Colombian striker showed a different face than what he had been showing in recent weeks, because according to Tano, Roger promised him to give the version that he knew when they were partners at the Academy.
“The Roger thing, I was his partner in Racing, he insisted that I believe in his conditions, he told me that he was going to go back to being the one I knew and celebrate with me. It doesn’t fill me as a coach but as a person, the person goes beyond sports, that’s what’s important”, declared the helmsman of the Eagles at a press conference after the duel against the Devils.
It seems that, with the Argentine coach, Roger is finally beginning to wake up, because on Sunday he was in charge of scoring the first of the three goals with which the Eagles took flight again against the Scarlets at the Azteca Stadium.
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