2024-01-02 07:30:14
“It will be a gift from the wafer, the best gift from Reis ever. So far what I was most excited about was the Play 2, it must have been 2006 or 2007, because all my friends had it and I was really excited, but this is going to be even more amazing. I don’t know if anyone will ever get over this gift. I think it will be difficult”, he laughs Hajj Ceesay Hydara (1998), born a Sant Martí de Llémena and raised in english after passing through Zaragoza i Girona. It is the left side of theArandina (Second Federation): on Saturday, Twelfth Day, they will receive a visit from Real Madrid, in one of the Round of 16 qualifiers of the Copa del Rey. They have already given the surprise against him Murcia (1-0) and Cadiz (2-1).
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Haji, eldest son of a Senegalese man and a Gambian woman who met in the gambia and they arrived at Catalonia looking for a present and a future, he has chased the ball since childhood. “He didn’t stop as a child. I spent the day playing football”, he says. His first matches were with the English, perhaps at six or seven years old. I idolized Didier Drogbain addition to Messi and Cristiano. “If I explain my background, maybe someone won’t believe it,” he admits. During base football he also went through the Cellera de Ter and Llagostera, without ever setting foot in high categories.
His first senior year was in the Casaa Second Catalan. “I was a striker. The following season, with the farnersa First Catalan, I started as a winger, but there was no left back and it was up to me to learn to play in that position. I’ve already stayed there”, he explains fromAranda del Duero. After playing a Santa Coloma went through Las Pedroñeras i Taranconto the province of concai Palencia and in the summer of 2022 he signed for Arandina: “I’m going around the spain». He admits that he would go anywhere for football: “When the representative found me the Las Pedroñeras offer and I told my father, he asked me where it was. And we looked at the map together to know more or less where it was.” Last year Arandina rose as undefeated champion of its group Third Federation, but this is cuer of group 1 of Segona with ten points out of 48. They have achieved two triumphs. And it’s been almost three months since the last one. “It is necessary to cut a lot of stones to reverse the situation”, he argues. He likes the expression picar pedra.
“I have cut a lot of stone to get here. We all want to get to professional football, as high as possible, but another person might not be able to take that long outside and without the family and say ‘this is not for me’. Because the teams I’ve been with are modest, they’re not teams you say ‘gosh, these are fighting to be first’. I had to spend a lot of time down, with psychologists in the teams, with a lot of suffering. And I’ve had some difficult times, but right now I’m in the Second Federation and I feel like it’s been worth it. If I were someone else, I would like to have my career”, remarks Haji. Dream of making the jump to Segona B.
He continues, convinced: “From the outside you only see the beautiful, but you suffer a lot being a footballer. You have to suffer a lot and you have to suffer a lot so that later the successes come to you». He has seen it at home, since he was a child. His first home, in Sant Martí de Llémena, was right next to the pig farm where his father worked. The family no longer lives there, but his father continues to work on the farm: “If someone asked me which person in the world I admire, I would say my father. He is the person I admire the most, because of the suffering he has gone through leaving his country to come here, build this family and support it. Everything I know and everything I have is because of him.”
His name is also Haji and he was in the stands on the day of the match against Cadiz, like his mother and one of his five brothers. The goal that opened the way to victory was the work of the son, in the 5th minute. The game started well. “Not good, motherfucker,” qualifies the winger. “It was incredible. When I dialed I didn’t even know what to do. I went to the corner and I honestly don’t even know what I did. These are things that not everyone can experience and that when you experience them you don’t even know where to stand”, he says. He talks about a “magical night” and repeats it three, four, maybe five times incredulously.
He got a Cadiz shirt, the central one Victor Chust, without giving up his: “I can’t lose it. I have kept it well and will frame it to hang it at home.’ Madrid’s day will chase that of Modric or that of Rodrygo. His father will be in the stands again: “After the game with Cadiz, he told me that he had jumped and everything from the emotion and that he felt incredible pride inside”. From English to Aranda de Duero (Castile and Leon), there are 600 kilometers, but from Senegal in Sant Martí de Llémena there were more than 3,600.
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