From the "Chape" to the Third Spanish Division: "My companions deserve to be remembered forever" – United States

Alejandro Martinuccio was recovering almost from an injury on November 28, 2016. The coach and athletic director had asked him to participate in this first final of the club's history (the America's Cup of Nations). South), although she had to play about 10 minutes. but Argentina told them that he still did not feel prepared, that he would prefer to wait another week and play 100% in the home leg. Martinuccio therefore did not enter the plane that transported the equipment from Chapecoense to Colombia, which has fallen today for two years, making 71 victims.
Today, he plays for Spain in the third division club of the Móstoles, but there is not a day that does not think of his teammates "Chape". "It was a normal day, but I woke up with the phone full of calls.The first thing I thought was that something had happened to my father," he said. he told the newspaper 'Marca'. "My brother phoned me to ask if I was fine, he told me that the plane had fallen in. At first I did not understand what plane he was talking about, but I did not understand what plane he was talking about. I turned on the television and saw that the plane had crashed in Colombia, started a horror movie.

"I got up, I ran to the car and I went to the club, there were 200 or 300 people at the door, and the following days, my wife and I were there to support the women of my companions, family and friends. " .

Alejandro remembers this year and a half that it was at Chapecoense a "very beautiful experience". "It was a very humble group of players," he said, recalling that the day before the flight, he had dined with goalkeeper Danilo and his wife. "He asked me what I would do in his place because he had a lot of teams who wanted to hire him, I told him to wait, to enjoy the final because these Moments are unique and he should not rush well and whoever wanted it would continue to want it after the final. "

After what happened, Alejandro says that he has never been the same. "I started to think differently, more mature, not to make a hasty decision, I do things more calmly, I talk to my wife, my family."

Two years have passed since the tragedy and nine years since Martinuccio played in the finals of the Copa Libertadores Cup for Peñarol against Santos de Neymar. "I see 19-year-olds and I think about what I did at that age, and told them what I was going through so that they could do things better."

The companions of Chapecoense, these, do not leave his head. "They deserve to be remembered forever."