Among many things, football has a volatility that one day can turn a player into a champion and figure and the next final, lose and become the most resistant on the team. That happened to the Colombian Frank Fabrathe best and most outstanding of the final of the Professional League Cup 2022 that Boca he beat Tigre by 3 to 0.
A year later, in the final of the Libertadores Cup ante Fluminensethe Colombian saw the red card in extra time and it was difficult for Boca to try at least for a draw that would allow them to try to lift the Cup on penalties. Fabra, went from hero to villain and is targeted by haters on social media.
But between the hero and the villain there was a promise that was fulfilled. “It takes time to come and in the end, there is a reward,” he echoes in promise zoneby Gustavo Cerati, and boy does he know it Nelson Genezone of Boca’s props who on Saturday received the low-displacement motorcycle that Fabra had promised him after winning it for being the best on the field in the League Cup final.
“It took us a while to get the paperwork done, but it was promised from the moment Boca became champion,” they explained from Xeneize about the delay in delivering the award.
The bike came for his outstanding performance, which included a goal, Boca’s second, 22 minutes into the second half against the team he curiously led. Diego Martineztoday at the Xeneize.
Closer in time, in the 2023 Libertadores final, Fabra was in the statistics for his expulsion 10 minutes after John Kennedy unbalanced the score in favor of Fluminense and was sent off after earning the second yellow card in the celebration.
The Boca fan did not forgive him for the expulsion that did not allow the team the opportunity to find spaces against a rival with 10 players. The Colombian’s red card balanced both teams numerically.
However, although in principle not among the starters, the defender is taken into account by Martínez, who in his first practice stopped two teams and put the Colombian as a left wing marker among the 11 that included Javier García, Marcos Rojo and Pol Fernandez, among others.
Martínez will define his first starters when on Saturday, January 20, he plays a friendly in the city of Córdoba, against Talleres or Instituto, depending on how the negotiations of the Boca leaders end.