ANDhe game last night was not just any game for Pedro León, but the talented Fuenlabrada midfielder had it marked in red on the calendar. And not only because the rival was Cartagena, the eternal rival of Real Murcia, the club in which Mula’s footballer was formed. But also because Three days ago, on September 25, his older brother, former cyclist León Sánchez Gil, would have turned 39, who died in October 2005 victim of a quad accident.
Therefore, and as MARCA could know, Pedro León wanted to see the goal to offer his brother the best possible tribute for his birthday. It was for this reason that, after half an hour, he had no doubt to shoot Marc Martínez from the penalty spot, in a maximum penalty that the VAR decreed for a hand of Pedro Alcalá at the auction of Roman Zozulia. And from eleven meters, the ’14’ did not capsize a second: he deceived the goalkeeper and scored.
After that, he ran to the realization chambers to take out four fingers and then kneel down and point the index fingers of his two hands to the sky. “The four of them! The four of them!“he shouted. A gesture, that of pulling out his four fingers and launching that particular harangue, which was a tribute in itself to the four brothers who are in his family: León, the professional cyclist Luis León Sánchez, the third, Antonio León, and Pedro himself, who is the little.
A precious tribute
The last three also have León as their middle name, while the oldest had it as their first. A tribute, in that sense, that the parents of the four wanted to do to the grandfather of all of them, who was called León. What’s more, the parent of the litter is also called Pedro León.
Although Pedro’s offering to his brother León was not there. In the second part, the new idol of Fuenla impaled a lateral center with all the intention of the world and launched an unstoppable cross shot for Marc Martínez. And again, a similar ritual: fingers in the air and I remember León, who last night breathed all his strength into his brother to do his first double at Fernando Torres on the most special night to do it. Two goals with which, incidentally, he is at the forefront of the particular scorers’ classification at Fuenlabrada, with three goals.
