Three years after having abandoned the professional practice of football, the former Argentine team player Jonah Gutiérrez will return to the courts: the Wise It was presented on Thursday as reinforcement of the Social, Cultural and Sports Club Las Toninas, which militates in the League of the Costa Party.
“I spent a lot of time. For me, the place is very important and what gave me. This is a way to give back everything that gave me since a child and until now. I did not think that I would have this possibility that I appreciate, ”said Gutiérrez, 41, during the presentation ceremony that took dwelling.
“I have had to be large teams and in large places, but this has a very large sentimental value. This is a dream and that’s why I put it among the most important places. I really want to start (the tournament), ”added the midfielder, who was cheered by dozens of supporters of the aurinegro team that gave heat and color to the event with flags, drums, flares and songs.
The player, who played 22 matches with the Argentine team (among them, three at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa), said that a few days ago his friend José Díaz, coach of Social Las Toninas, had proposed to join the team to play he Opening Tournament of the Coast Leaguewhich will begin after the summer season, and he had gladly accepted the invitation.
“Being a player of the National Team, he kept choosing the toninas because, for me, what is lived here is not lived anywhere,” Jonah confessed.
He Wisethat in the next few days the preseason will begin with its new colleagues, It will become the first player with the last World Cup that will compete in the Coast Leaguein which 14 teams intervene. In the last Clausura tournament, which won the great future of San Clemente del Tuyú, social toninas ended 11.
Gutiérrez’s decision to dress the Aurinegra jacket will end an inactivity of just over three years. The player formed in Vélez, who also wore the t -shirts of Independiente, Defense and Justice, Banfield, Newcastle, Norwich City, Mallorca and Deportivo La Coruña, had retired in November 2021.
His goodbye had occurred after representing Almagro for four monthsthe club of which is a sympathizer, in the tournament of the First National. With the whole of José Ingenieros he played seven meetings. The last was the one that the Tricolor He lost 3 to 2 at home with Ferro for the last date of the contest on November 15, 2021. That day, Gutiérrez entered when 29 minutes were missing for the end in replacement of Gonzalo Giménez.
“(I feel) happiness because I fulfilled many of the dreams I had when I started this race: play in Europe, play in the national team, go to a World Cup, retire in the club from which I am a fan. I ended up on the court, which was something that yearned, ”the one born in Sáenz Peña celebrated, on the day of his farewell at the Tres de Febrero stadium.