He Bring Chivas, Raúl Gudiño, revealed that in his career there was a time when I felt that America’s goalkeeper, Guillermo Ochoa, had won his dream.
Gudiño confessed in an interview with Chivas TV that that feeling invaded him When Notification became the first Mexican goalkeeper to be signed in Europe; although later, he managed to remove the thorn.
In 2011, Ajaccio from French League 1 announced Ochoa as an acquisition, “winning” that dream of Gudiño, who until 2014 saw the opportunity to be on the Old Continent crystallized.
“I just think Memo had a little bit about him going to Europe and he was the first Mexican goalkeeper to go, I thought I had won, I had that illusion, that goal of being firstSaid Gudiño.
When Gudiño was signed by him porto In 2014, he had to start from the bottom. “I was in Porto Under 19, then I started playing in Porto B, after seven months they made the purchase option valid and then I became the third goalkeeper of the first team.”
The first in the Champions League
Ochoa was the first Mexican goalkeeper in Europe, but Gudiño managed to overtake him as the first Mexican goalkeeper to play Champions League.
Apoel Nicosia of Cyprus He wanted Gudiño, and the Aztec player in the first instance did not know whether to accept, because he did not even know his geographical and social location, but his participation in the Champions League convinced him.
“They told me I was going to play in Cyprus and I didn’t even know where I was, so I researched it and saw that it was in the middle of Iraq., near Turkey, I was thinking about how I would get there. That’s when my father told me that It was a club that was going to play the Champions League and that’s where I decided to go“.
“I wasn’t the first goalkeeper to go to Europe, but I wanted to be the first to play in the Champions League. Grab the ball and see that he has the stars of the Champions League, I think it’s something that will leave a mark on my life,” he said. .
Gudiño even has the logo of this UEFA tournament tattooed, where participated on October 17, 2017 before Borussia Dortmund.
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