Jorge Fossati, the master of this miracle: la 'U' wins in Argentina and begins to heal its wounds [VIDEO]

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Tonight in Lima, tonight in La Plata, Universitario has defeated Gimnasia y Esgrima 1-0 in El Bosque for the Copa Sudamericana, and in doing so, has updated its international validity, which is impossible for other shirts. 56 years ago, they had defeated River and Racing in 48 hours for the Copa Libertadores. Today they return to Lima strengthened, like a bodybuilder. Today they are told to walk back from Argentina and they come back, happy.

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The maker of this is, by far, Mr. Jorge Fossati. Guide me, oh Lord of Uruguay. The ‘U’ had knocked on his door twice before. The first time, in 1993, when the cream leadership sought Sergio Markarián and Fossati, who was his assistant, chose to stay at River Uruguay to make his debut as a coach. The second time, just over a year ago, when Universitario had already decided to recover its old Uruguayan feeling - so many surnames, Roberto Scarore, Rubén Techera, Tomás Silva - and, without Gregorio Pérez due to health reasons, they asked if it was possible to travel to Peru to start a project. He couldn't do it then. This year, already freed from his assignment at Danubio, he asked three things as soon as the Ferrari administration - via Manuel Barreto - contacted him. 1) How is Emanuel Herrera? 2) Why isn't Piero Quispe playing? 3) Could we reconcile with the fans and play all the matches with a full stadium? He needed his number 9, his number 10, and his 40 thousand. Since then, he has coached 6 games, won 5, and only drew 1. He went to Cusco and brought back three points. He gave his mark in three days: he made Corzo captain, turned him into a stopper in a line of 5, and took Polo out of the wing, where he was an ineffective winger. That personality was well received by his squad, with whom he speaks for "hours and hours" (said Valera), trying to explain why he does what he does. He traveled to La Plata and made his debut in the Sudamericana with this great victory that, although it doesn't qualify or make anyone rich - beyond the $100 prize -, returns a nobility to the 'U' that seemed lost, sepia, even impossible to believe for the children of today.

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For them, above all, this is also the 'U'. Or should I say, this is the U of Jorge Fossati, a man with a CV of 20 tons who, in this month and a few days living in Peru, is performing the impossible miracle for 30 coaches that the club, its circumstances, and its enemies have crushed in the last ten years. He is healing it. He is healing the wounds in the only way that football can heal: by winning his matches. By imposing himself. By showing hierarchy. Here and there. In the local league or in the international cup. On a Sunday afternoon or on a Wednesday like these, which are boiling.

Imagine, Mr. Fossati, what will happen when the deep wounds in the U's body have disappeared forever. That day you will be carried on shoulders.