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I began when I was 8 years old in my village Bernardo de Irigoyen in the red ground of Misiones, there I commenced to take a liking of being a keeper on the hand of my brother Diego, due that he was a keeper at that time, but as I left my village with only nine years of age I took my dreams to the south, to Comodoro Rivadavia in the county of Chubut. There in Comodoro a lady named Rosa Guaymas asked me if I wanted to be in her team, because she needed a keeper. I liked the idea, the invitation and accepted to be the keeper of Almirante Brown, there at the age of ten years began my dream.
In my first match with Almirante Brown in a tournament organized by the club of Jorge Newbury, at the end of the match and to my greatest joy, Ruben Diaz Paris approached me and told me that if I wanted the doors of the CAI (youth activity commission) where open to try out. That was my second step in this sport and in a few weeks I already had came out for the CAI and I was part of a club who had the same interest in growing as I, as I was playing in the Argentinean first team.
In the CAI I lived a large part of my childhood in my personal life as well as in my soccer because after school I went straight to the club. They were five years in which I learned so many things of Albert Bellido, Mario Amado, of the cat Monteccino, Hugo Doria, Oscar Nunez, of the monkey Perez, surely I left out some name but it gives me great pleasure to name them here so that they know each thing they told me or teached me in the trainings being in the lyceum or in trainings on the beaches of Stella Maris, it was well received and even in my present days I put them to practice.
Defending the colors of Azurro in those windy mornings, in so many weekends, I can look back at something so special that even I cannot find the words to express myself after those incredible five years in the CAI, I had to take a huge step, I believe the most important, I left home, my city and faced up to a new life in the enormous city of Buenos Aires, I went to defend the glorious colors of the academy of Racing Club Avellaneda.
There in januari of 2003 I realized that I was taking the first step of my childhood dream, I got to Buenos Aires I stood on the point of my first training of the seventh division of Racing.
So at the hand of Roly Bertolini as trainer, of Zubeldia as fysiotherapist, of Gustao Pineyro as trainer of keepers and of the then coordinator Mico I went on to dreaming of becoming a professional some day.
In that year of adapting I had to take in a new disappointment of gaining a place in the selection, something I didn't get because we had to play for a year, it was ultimately something positive because it served me to have a rhythm in the game and become friends with my roommates. The only bad thing that year was that for our own fault we couldn't be champions, even with great players as Maxi Morales or Matias Sanchez.
Something totally different was waiting for me in 2004, if I told you that my change of Comodoro to Buenos Aires was gigantic in my life, now another came the third of march, the duck Fillol asked me for the first time to train with the professionals, in this year I got the first division and at the same time I went on to the sixth division in the youth tournament, in which I got to be champion with the Boca Juniors.
2005 brought me two large joys, I got in the Racing Club Avellaneda with Velez Sarfield and the second my first appointment with the youth selection of the AFA Francisco Ferraro. With this pre-selection under twenties I went to play in France in the tournament of Toulon.
And finally came 2006, the time to sign my first contract I went from a youth player to a professional player. Not only we, but the whole of Argentina was awaiting that we were going to the Olympics and in august of 2008 we achieved what we were looking for a second medal, we became champions and brought back home the gold medal for the country to enjoy it. After that historic encounter with Brazil 3 to 1.
And the great pleasure the day that Maradona selected me for the friendly game in Scotland against Glasgow.
Now here in the club of AZ Alkmaar after one year and five months I feel at home and hope for a good future.
So many things have happened in these eleven years and today at 21 years of age I still try to prevent the ball from getting in the goal.
I thank you all, beginning with my father Ramn, my mother Betty, my brothers Marcos, Oscar and Diego, my wife Eliana, my grandparents, my uncles and aunts, my cousins, my friends. And for many years to come!!
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