Olimpia was eliminated in the semifinals CONCACAF Champions League facing Tigers, but before that the football player Marvin Bernard He had one of his small privileges, approaching one of the childhood idols, the former football player from Arsenal and Barcelona, Thierry Henry.
In his first experience in an international competition, “Săgeata” told how special it was for him to live this moment with Olimpia.
In addition, she detailed how the episode was when she met him and greeted her DT of the Montreal Impact inside the hotel in balloon in Orlando, Florida.
“Seeing Thierry Henry surprised me, when I looked at him in the hotel, he was walking with Maylor Núñez and Deiby Flores down a corridor, he passed us, he greeted us and very humbly,” he said.
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He added that “now, in the game, he was focused on the game and only at the end of the game did he come to greet each of us again wishing us luck.”
Regarding the match against Tigres and Montreal, he replied that “it was something special, it was my first experience in the CONCACAF Champions League playing against Montreal and Tigres”.
He also regretted that “not what we were looking for (elimination), but I think that something important has been achieved to reach the semifinals where in this new format no Concacaf team has succeeded, we should be proud to know that we closed among the first 4 CONCACAF, the truth is that God was very good to us “.
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WHAT REMAINS IN THE LEAGUE
Olimpia will play this Sunday at Nacional (18:00) the return match against Marathon which defines the tournament leader. So far the Sampedrani lead the series with a 3-1 in their favor achieved in Yankel Rosenthal.