:quality(75)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/elcomercio/HDKEMMLNOZEWXK7Y2LZN6XZSVU.jpg "Juan Vargas | “There are no consecration pictures of the 'logo' with the Universitario, he did everything with the Peruvian team”: does he deserve a big farewell for Creams? | Game-Total")
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Like every U's fan on his debut against Cienciano on November 24, 2002 at the Monument, I have on my retinas his great goal from fifty meters against Moreno Mendoza (a match, we lost 2-3). I also remember his other very good performances in the three seasons he defended our shirt. That's when he grew up and stopped being 'Chucky' and became 'crazy'. Unfortunately, between 2002 and 2005, Crystal and Alianza lifted the trophy in December. What I want to say is that there are no consecration images of the 'logo' with the U: he lost all the classics he played, he never returned to any Olympics, he did not leave a symbolic play (I hope) immortal.
It was with other colors that Vargas became an international figure. There's his big goal with Argentina's Colon in a 5-0 win over Almagro (that goal was so spectacular that it forever overshadowed another Peruvian, another ex-Cream, Juan Cummings' two scores that same afternoon); There's a brutal free kick against Boca Juniors, Pato Apontancieri nailing the ball into the top right corner; Italy has deadly left kicks with a Catania or Fiorentina shirt. Of course, there is everything he did with the Peruvian team: the best goal against Bolivia, the best goal against Brazil, the goals against Colombia and Ecuador, and, above all, the famous play of 2008, the Mohican run to Battaglia in a 1-1 draw with Argentina in qualifying. A slalom immortalized by Daniel Peridot's voice turned Vargas' genitalia into the most famous egg in South American football that night.
What I'm saying to all this is that Vargas isn't really a cream icon, I mean yes, but only in retrospect. We claim him as our own idol, but for the merits he achieved so far from the monument.
On the other hand, why do you think the U would sponsor a possible farewell (if I'm not mistaken, Carranza's farewell was organized by Del Soler, not the Merengue leadership) if a similar party was not organized at the time for men of corporate weight like 'Kemo', Roberto Martinez or Puma.
The most significant Peruvian football farewells – at least in the last half century – may be the three received by Nene Cubillas in Matute in 1986 and Sori Palacios in 2012: the first tear more than the second, but not more. than the third.
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I can't remember a tribute of that proportion in recent times. For example, none of the popular Fantastic Four, led by Sergio Markarian, have ever reached the level of popular support that would make them worthy of a farewell from the crowd. Claudio Pizarro was fired with a standing ovation and a full stadium, but far away, in Bremen; Jefferson Farfán organizes a celebration, but at his own expense; And Vargas is having a hard time meeting the stand for the last time in his uniform.
Paulo Guerrero was the only one who could wish for a grand farewell from that clan. For now, however, the striker's heart refuses to hang up his boots; The case of his legs is different, which is getting closer to retirement every day.
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