From fighting to get ahead to getting really close to River: Borja’s story of victory – TyC Sports

There are details left for Miguel Borja to be a River footballer and in this note we review his story: his humble origins, his beginnings in football, when he won the Libertadores and his current status as a Junior.

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Michael Borgia is very close to River. Since the start of the transfer market, although his eventual arrival was delayed for a while, he was always the priority for Marcelo Gallardo and Company. They want him to replace Julian Alvarez and with his scrolls and his great conditions, he has everything so that the Millionaire Do not miss the Spider so much: Borja’s story, a reward for endurance and patience.

From fighting him to get ahead to getting really close to River: Borja’s story of overtaking

Since his childhood, spent in Tierralta, Borgia showed his love for football. It is that at the age of seven, he went to a field called La Bonga and there he began to play. He was an unconditional fan of the Colombian national team: when he lost, the future striker cried and became grumpy.

His family was of very modest origin: Miguel’s parents did their best to survive. José María, his father, was seller of lottery; while her mother was called Nicolasa sold fried. In this way, they carried the family forward.

Borja’s football debut

Borgia He entered a school called Pony Gol and from there he made the jump to the first professional team which tested him: Envigado. His stint was short, because there was a sponsorship problem and he had to return to his city. He also tried unsuccessfully to sign for Independent Medellin Yes National Athletic (club where he would later win the Copa Libertadores), but a family friend put him on trial at America From Cali and it went very well for him, but the club couldn’t keep him because he was in a bad institutional moment. Thus, he found himself on the sidewalk opposite: Deportivo Cali, where he made his professional debut on June 29, 2011 in the Colombian Cup.

So Miguel went to Sports Cucuta add minutes and he has found a DT who will be essential in his career: Jaime de la Pava. In September 2011 he added his first minutes for the League against Deportivo Pereira and eight days later started as a starter, in a game against Envigado. In Cucuta did not add too many minutes and Borgia had to continue fighting her to demonstrate all her conditions: after returning to Cali, the Cortulua he took it to play the Colombian ascent. there he played 61 games and scored seven goals. His conditions caught the attention of coach Carlos ‘Piscis’ Restrepo, who called him up to the Argentina’s U-20 selection for South America.

After scoring three goals for the national team, becoming South American champions and playing in the World Cup in Turkey, Borja Equity, where he had a fleeting stage, scoring two goals in four games. This allowed him to make the leap to Europe, where miguel played for Livornowhere it has not been consolidated.

Borja and the jump in his career

The Colombian came Bahia Olympus White, where he scored three goals in 16 games and excelled in a side struggling not to be relegated. Paradoxically, the Colombian scored a goal against River at the Monumental, in the 1-1 draw against Aurinegro. He thus attracted the attention of Gustavo Costas, Argentinian DT who manages Independiente Santa Fe, a team which has just become champion and will play the Liberators. And then it comes out again: scored ten goals and was one of the team’s top scorers during the half. Additionally, he won the south american.

Borja and his goal against River

His final in Santa Fe was not the best: he missed the penalty against Junior in the quarter-finals and his team was eliminated. “Santa Fe is an institution that opened its doors to me. I have no reason to be resentful, far from it, since I think I came out the front door and with a Copa Suramericana title. Its very important“, did he declare.

Then he returned to Cortuluawhere he broke it: set the short tournament goals record (19) in the second half of 2016which allowed him to take the leap to nothing more and nothing less than Athletic National. There he dispatched Sao Paulo with two goals to Morumbí and two to Atanasio Girardot, in the semi-finals. Then he scored the title goal, in Medellín, in the final against Independiente del Valle.

Palm trees became interested in it and paid 9.8 million euros, where he remained for three years until Junior hired him, a team of which he is a fan. From Barranquilla he returned to Brazil, this time to Guild, where he scored three goals in six games. And with the Selectionwith whom he went World Cup Russia 2018gate 19 games and five goals.

In December 2021, Junior repatriated him and bought the attacker who was in Palm treesafter payment three and a half million dollars for 50% of the pass. Borja was the undisputed starter even if the results were not the best: elimination in the group stage of the south american and also the home run of the Colombian tournament at the hands of Nacional. He played 27 games, scored 16 goals and today he is very close to signing with River: after being left behind with the team of his loves, Gallant seduced him with the chance to raise the Liberators. Even if there are details (they must agree on the method of payment), everything indicates that the Millionaire..

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