For Cruz Azul forward, Uriel Antuna, Dealing with the nickname “The Witcher” has been something like sleeping with the enemy, since recently on his social networks he stated that he has never liked this nickname with which he was “baptized” during his time on the LA Galaxy team. about five years ago, but little by little he has learned to cope with the way Cruz Azul fans identify him.
The above was brought up again in a publication on the social network TikTokwhere he clearly revealed that: “I don’t like that nickname anymore, because at the end of the day, we all know that a Witch is a sorcerer, but at the end of the day there are things that I can’t change and at the end of the day, I respect the way “whatever you want to call me”
In Mexican soccer there are nicknames that have left their mark and that people immediately identify with them. They have ranged from the “Gato” or “Superman” as the Argentine Miguel Marín from Cruz Azul was known, the “Confesor” to Miguel Ángel Cornero, also from America, to the “Snoopy” Ricardo Pérez from Chivas, “Astro boy” Ricardo Chavarín from Atlas, the “Harapos” as Alfredo Morales from Zacatepec was known, the “More” from Juan Carlos Mosqueda from América, the “Brody” from Jorge Campos from Pumas, among many more.
But the truth is that unlike the decade of the 60s, 70s and 80s, when commentators like Fernando Marcos, Fernando Luengas and Ángel Fernández, this the most prolific of all, little by little that spark was lost and now Except for Enrique “Bermúdez” de la Serna, better known as the “Dog” or Christian Martinolli, the rest have left aside those types of nicknames to identify the players.
The truth is that Antuna, beyond the discomfort with which she has had to battle all these five years,has not been an impediment to growing in his soccer performance, as currently in the Clausura 2024 tournament, where he is located as the second leader in goals with seven scores, just one behind the Venezuelan Salomón Rondón who leads the netbreakers of the current tournament with eight notes.
But Uriel Antuna has not only been significant in scoring due to his specific weight on the field of play. within the tactical scheme of the Argentine coach Martín Anselmi, where like the Colombian Kevin Mier, the Argentines Gonzalo Piovi, Carlos Rotondi and Lorenzo Faravelli, as well as Carlos Rodríguez, are the players with the most games played in the cement team with 14 games in where it adds up to 1193 minutes.
That is to say, for Antuna the Clausura 2024 has been his confirmation and he has left behind all those versions of indiscipline that cost him his departure from Chivas de Guadalajara.
Identified with the fans
But the work of Uriel Antuna is not only subscribed to the field of play, but in the environment of the beaten Cruz Azul fans, his treatment and relationship with the followers has gone further, trying to do social works or identify with followers with some health problems like last Saturday at the end of the game vs. Monterrey, where he gave his shirt to a little follower who is battling cancer problems.
Thus, stopping when leaving the facilities to give autographs and take photos with the Machine fans, at the La Noria facilities or in other squares, have allowed him to gain their recognition.
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