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When the flashes lights illuminated his face, singing the anthem Premier League, Darwin Núñez's mind stuck around the past.
He will remember his childhood in the pirate, a settlement and poor neighborhood of Artigas located on an flood zone of the Cuareim River. The nights he lay down without eating. The daily fight of his mother who toured the streets by joining bottles to sell and obtain money to ensure the food dish. And seeing his father tired of fighting her all day in construction to buy his football shoes.
The striker who became champion with Liverpool From England he owns a story worth telling. To pure sacrifice and overcoming. To have an idea, He was about to leave football twice.
Darwin was a chiquilín that was running through the streets of El Pirata when he made contact with big football. An afternoon of the year 2013, in a loss Canchita of his native Artigas, the chueco José Perdomo appeared. Peñarol's historic man stopped to look at the game that Artigas played against Bella Unión.
As soon as the encounter ended, El Chueco went to talk to the parents of a weakness that had caught his attention: one Darwin Núñez.
A few days later, the 14 -year -old boy said goodbye to his mother Silvia Ribeiro and the old Bibiano Núñez. In the Artigas Bus Terminal, with his eyes full of tears, he loaded with the kiss and hug of his parents in the backpack.
In Montevideo they lodged him in the house of Peñarol but, curiously, after the first training there was no. They cut it. “I don't know what happened but I didn't stay. I turned to Artigas. After a year I came back and was Juan Ahuntchain de Coordinator. We talked and told me that they were going to specify in Peñarol. Then I talked to my parents that I was going to stay.”the player revealed when I interviewed him to The observer.
At that time Darwin had the containment of your older brother who played in Peñarol's third division. But, soon, Junior Núñez returned to Artigas to help his family. Darwin intended to follow his steps, but the brother prevented him.
“Stay, you have a future. I'm leaving”Junior told him in a gesture that Darwin never forgets.
The striker stayed two and a half years in the Aurinegras youth until, with 16 years, coach Leonardo Ramos rose him from the fifth division to the first team. At that time he asked his representative Edgardo Lasalvia to bring his parents to Montevideo.
“I do not forget where I come. A humble family, workman. My father worked in the construction and when I had no shoes, I tried to look for something and buy some to play football. I had to work eight or nine hours to buy things and feed us. My mother was always a housewife and went out to travel the streets to gather bottles to sell”Núñez revealed that morning that I interviewed him in the celestial complex.
The blows of the race
The boy's career came to the stern. One afternoon he was promoted to defend the third division team in a match against South America in Fossa Park.
And in full game, the unexpected: he jumped in procurement of a ball and when he fell he folded his knee. The studies revealed that The cross ligaments had broken. It must have been intervened surgically. A year and a half passed without stepping on the court. The world came down …
“It was a complicated moment where I wanted to leave football. I was going to work in Artigas, I had no choice. I had to start for eight hours.”. But, remembering the sacrifice his brother had made for him, was the support that kept him standing.
Darwin recovered and returned. However, fate had another blow to him.
Peñarol coach of that time, Fernando Curutchet, summoned him to play against River Plate for the thirteenth date of the Clausura tournament. That November 22, 2017 was marked over fire when, at 63 minutes of the game that was played in Saroldi Park, they called it to enter Maximiliano Rodríguez.
Peñarol lost 2-1. Darwin was crying. But not because of the defeat, but for knee pain. It must have been operated again. This time of the kneecap.
He returned in 2018. On October 13 he turned his first goal with the Aurinegra in the 1-0 victory over Fénix.
A few months later he was selected for the SUB 20 played by the South American 2019 and the World Cup in Poland. And if that were not enough, they took him to the Pan American Games. He had definitely received as a selection player.
Darwin's life looked like a fairy tale. On August 27, 2019, its transfer to Almeria of Spain was confirmed. His future and that of his family changed forever. He could finally fulfill his main dream …
“We have a house in Artigas but when we came to Montevideo he went down. Luckily I will be able to buy a house from my parents. When I did not have to buy a couple of shoes my mother went out to gather bottles and my father worked 10 hours in construction”revealed.
In September 20, his name broke out in the European passes market. Almeria sold it to Benfica de Portugal in exchange for 24 million euros. The most expensive signing in the history of the First Division of Portugal.
On October 15, 2019, he debuted in the Uruguay National Team in a friendly against Peru where he scored the goal of the 1-1 draw.
It seems a lie, but Darwin's career passed at the rhythm of vertigo. In just five years: he debuted in Peñarol's first team, became a selection player, negotiated him to Almería, became the most expensive pass in the history of Portugal, and then one of the most expensive in the world. Liverpool of England invested 100 million euros in its incorporation. In spite of everything, Darwin is still the same and does not forget his past, as he let him know in a photo on his Instagram account where he showed himself at the door of his old house and commented: “My house, where I was happy for 14 years! I will never forget where I left and I will always remember her with love”.
How to forget him if he many times he lay down without eating and witnessed his parents' sacrifice. “I lay with the empty belly. But the one who laid the most with the empty belly was my mother, because a mother does everything for her children and she often lay down without eating to feed us. I grew up in a poor neighborhood. There I learned sharing things with friends, everyone had something. At school, the same, when I didn't have to eat I went to the full -time school. He entered at seven and left at three in the afternoon. My parents worked and when I left school I was going to train me. Mom was not yet because she went out to gather bottles in the street and sold them to buy things to me and my brother. I do not forget “.
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