Fran and Peter Fernández, the brothers who make Santa Bárbara dream
The cold afternoon was felt on the side of the road, when the Santa Bárbara field hosted its knights’ match against Ferro Carril Oeste and the men of the tricolor depended on themselves to advance to the First A. While the dunks were being set up in Gonnet, people encouraged and managed to get up from their seats at the moment that two boys, with the same last name, carry the ball: Francisco and Pedro Fernández.
The gentlemen of La Plata made your return to the highest category after a single year in the B of the Metropolitan Tournament and although there was the pertinent celebration afterwards, for the brothers the result is an addition to the enjoyment they feel for representing their club.
“We always say that playing together in our club’s first team is the most beautiful thing there is”the youngest, Francisco, began alleging.
“I think we were up to the task and that is why we deserve to be promoted today.but it is also the result of everything we work for this. Last year we had to be relegated and this year our main objective was to return to A”, Juan Pedro mentioned.
Fran is taking his first steps in the Senior Campus of Santathis year he crowned it by being functional to the First and he is also lucky enough to share time with his idol also at home: “Playing with Pedro is incredible. It’s something beautiful, we’ve been here since we were little. It is a very great pride. I am always aware that he is my example to follow. That every day he gets up at 4 in the morning to go to train and I say, ‘I want to be like him’, give everything in the delivery”.
peter It is the presentation key of Santa Barbarathe rivals who face Gonnet’s team know that he is the player to follow, but he avoids the word ‘reference’: “We try to contribute what we have to, from the role we have to fulfill. We always talk about that, about the roles that each one has. I think that being a reference, or not, also leads us to, with humility, work and do our duty as best as possible”.
In addition to his good present in his clubPedro is a member of Los Leoncitos, he was present at the last World Cup and aspires to repeat in India at the end of the year. Situation that led him to be admired by the new ones who join the processbut that, instead of clouding him, managed to make him more aware of the place he occupies: “Now in Junior I am having a new positionmore thrown to the middle of the field. I know that I am one of the oldest and that the youngest ones look at us. To all the greatest. Not only me, because there is Tomi (Ruiz), Bruno (Correa), Toto (Rodríguez), Joaco (Ruiz), Mati (Andreotti), all of us who have the last World Cup must guide the newest, because the reality is that we do not believe ourselves to be references, but we have to continue working to be able to give our best. But hey, I think the way is to do it from humility.”
“And as a personal goal, one always wants to continue improving so that, at some point, have the possibility of being in the senior team, which is my biggest dream.”Peter sealed.
