In a conversation with ESPN, the Pachuca goalkeeper highlights the confidence that Guillermo Almada gave him to keep the Tuzos goal after the departure of Oscar Ustari
Carlos Moreno At 10 years old he was discarded for Chivas and today he is one of the leading goalkeepers of Clausura 2024 with the Pachuca. Los Tuzos They opened the doors for him when he was a child and he has risen to prominence thanks to the work tools that the club gave him, as well as the trust of the coaching staff after the departure of the Argentine. Oscar Ustari.
“Each player has a different path and the goalkeeper’s path, for one reason or another, takes a little longer; It is more difficult for a technician to arrive and give you the opportunity. In that regard, the professor Guillermo Almada His hand does not tremble when it comes to placing a young man,” he declares to ESPN Carlos Morenofrom Colima, 25 years old.
“Having patience is essential and sooner or later things come,” he adds. Carlos Morenowhose story is very special.
Carlos Moreno declares himself an admirer of Miguel Calero. Imago7
He says that because of his father he likes soccer and because of Miguel Calero He defends the goal, apart from the fact that his height also forced him to play the position. “I was always the biggest in the group, even though I was 10 years old; At that age he was a little chubby, but always tall.”
As a child they called him ‘Calerito’, because his idol has always been the ‘Condor’, “but when he reached a category where I was Juanjo Calero (Calero’s son) the nickname faded.”
Although he admits that he also liked Oswaldo Sanchezreaffirms that “Calero “He is my reference, the idol of my childhood and also of today.”
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Carlos Morenowho is nicknamed ‘Tanque’ in Bella Airosa, remembers that at the age of 10 “Chivas They offered me to be part of their basic forces, but the tools they offered me did not meet all of our needs as a family. He told me that he was going to train at the club, that he would have some meals, but that I would look for a place to live and that my family would also move to where I was. Accepting that offer complicated the life of the entire family.”
The Tuzo goalkeeper reveals that Chivas He told him that at the age of 13 he could already receive him in the red and white Club House, but suddenly he appeared in his life Pachuca.
Thanks to a vision of people from the institution, Cesáreo Acosta being one of those responsible, he left for the state of Hidalgo. They gave him everything: training in a lower category team, home, studies. The year was 2009 “and it was already heard that Pachuca “He was one of the role models and one of the clubs that did things better.”
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He was studying Communication Sciences when he got the opportunity to go play in Chile, where Everton, a club of the Pachuca Group and whose director was Ignacio Hierro. At the age of 18 he left school to live two and a half years in the South American country, where he was able to debut in the First Division, with the Argentine Cristian Campestrini being the starter.
“I would have liked to continue there, have more international contact, play in the Copa Libertadores, the Sudamericana, but I had to return because they were going to take advantage of my position as a foreigner for another position. Today I am going back to school. It got a little complicated for me when I went to Chile and then it intersected with Dad’s life, the birth of my son. In another country you grow a lot as a person and as a professional and it gives you another armor, an armor to face adversity,” he adds. Carlos Moreno.
Reintegrase a Pachuca After his experience abroad, it couldn’t have been better. He persevered and achieved, well Guillermo Almada He trusted him and gave him ownership when Óscar Ustari decided to emigrate.
As for Pachuca facing the Play-In of Closing 2024, Carlos Moreno He points out that “he is there to compete with anyone in any game, on any court. Without a doubt we have made a great team with experienced people and highly dynamic young people. We are very hungry to grow and achieve good things. Surely we are going to do it because the roof of Pachuca Nobody knows where it is.”