“This is my life, I want to win” | Relief

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The kicker is Mario Rivas, he plays for Real Avila and just scored the most important penalty of his life.Perhaps this will be the most valuable moment in his just-beginning sports career, because he is only 24 years old. This ensures that his Second Federation team will face a First Division team at home in the first week of December. However, apparently, it does not celebrate it.

He remains still, serious, and walks towards his comrades. They tend to collide and hug him. He seems to remain indifferent, as if the story does not suit him. After this he seems more expansive. He’s not angry, far from it. This is a sign of respect for the opponent due to his strong connection with his father. What’s the fate? In the draw they can face another club from the Second RFEF, a club from the First Federation or any other club from the Second. And Real Oviedo just played.

Mario Rivas, who also has a twin named Oscar who plays for Vitoria Guimarães, is the son of the Oviedo club legend. Antonio, his father, is still involved with the club, to the point that he is the director of the quarry. But that’s not what people remember him for in the city. He even has a Wikipedia page that tells how he spent almost ten years in Oviedo as a player. He has 16 goals and 242 games in the First Division. Almost nothing.

The legacy he left is so great that he was even given the reins of the bench from 2003 to 2006. Following his departure, he joined Atlético Madrid’s youth team and also spent time in Fuenlabrada or Alcorcon before returning “home” to take charge of the Oviedo bases. A family with football traditions. He forced his children to dedicate themselves professionally and make them go far. Today one of them was his rival, even from a distance.

Striker Mario Rivas was not only a striker today, he was also a son, he felt that the game was his own, unique story. Perhaps this is why he decided to shoot from the third position, so as not to have to make a decision anyway. However, one of the strangest mix-ups in recent years occurred. Oviedo started with a shot and missed three times. Avila handled the pressure well and converted his first two attempts.

This can’t be true. Mario Rivas, who avoided it when passing, had in front of him the ball that changed his football life, as well as the life of his club.even at the expense of the club where his father plays and for which he was and remains a legend. Professionalism above all: he transformed it and maintained respect without glorifying it.

In the preview on Cadena SER, he already hinted that he would be careful: Real Oviedo is a family team because my father played there for many years and is also the coach and in charge of the youth team. I want to win and for the sake of it, it will not be my father who will win, as in past times. I already told him to go with whoever he wants, I’ll do my best and we’ll see who can do it best.“. And he jokes: “I didn’t ask him who he was going with because he wasn’t going to tell me. I love this team very much, but at the end of the day, this is my life.“I play for Avila and I want to win with them.”

Football and life. Mario Rivas changed generations and, against all odds, said goodbye to his Oviedo team from the Cup.. His father. Avila’s historic goal, which even its scorer couldn’t celebrate.