For the tournament First C, the lowest category of Argentine professional football today, United Youth lost 3-0 at home against Royal Pilar, suffered its fifth defeat in nine dates, did not win so far in the tournament and only has two teams below it in the standings. As is renovating its stadium and its stands, the match was behind closed doors; However, a group of fans appealed to their ingenuity to see him as if he were on the field. Just there.
Calling themselves “The Wolf Bar”, a group of about 30 fans approached the field equally y was located on one of the platforms of the Muñiz train station, in San Miguel, which is behind the sector occupied by the banks. More specifically, behind a second fence that separates the five-a-side soccer fields attached to the main track of the General San Martín Railway.
What in principle could have been a very good idea to alert the players led to an improvised stand to make them feel the discomfort due to the accumulation of bad results. After 20 minutes, Martín “Pesadilla” Gómez appeared in the area on a side kick in the form of a center from that same area where the fans were and falling to the ground he opened the scoring, in what was the first goal as a professional for the boy who emerged from the Monarca youth team.
Real Pilar’s (and Martín Gómez’s) first goal
Later, Alejandro Noriega, increased the penalty before the end of the first half, and Axel Paiva, with a great goal in the second stage, sealed the overwhelming victory for the visitor, something that generated the reaction of the bar. From the platform, the shout of encouragement transformed into a chant of greater attitude, with great fanfare. The classic “Players…” was heard clearly, strongly.
The fans’ demand… from the station
The typical protest song when things are not going well appeared in the air in the middle of what was the second straight home game there in less than a week, with another loss. The previous Friday they had lost 2-1 against Defensores de Cambaceres, on their return to that stadium after having been home to Pilar in the first three games of the tournament in that condition.
On the other side of the station, where some people were waiting for the train in the opposite direction, the surprise increased when the hurtful screams began, amidst the fluttering of umbrellas with the traditional white and red colors. Immediately, those images reached social networks. Folklore, to the limit.
The reaction of Juventud Unida fans
Carried away by emotion and fanaticism, Some ended up climbing to the roof of the platform entrance area, where the turnstiles are. The end was with anger for Juventud Unida, due to the new defeat, the prolongation of an alarming negative series and the notorious discomfort of those who went to cheer and ended up upset by the defeat received.
Right at home, where they returned last Friday and even then they were not able to change the fate of an adverse streak in the tournament, with four draws and five games lost.