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 it was known that it(he,she) was returning of Defenders of Belgrano to do the
pretemporada with the nursery(staff) many people wondered for what. Those who a
re in the habit of seeing the parties(games) of The Lowest knew that of Ninth t
o Fourth did not excuse to archer him(her) put forward. The most mindful they w
ere remembering that Ramon Diaz took it to the pretemporada of beginning(princi
ples) of 98, but later it(he,she) never put it. And they were registering neith
er several nor it, directly they were saying " who is this Sand ".

In the summers friendly ones, the forward entrusted clearing up all the doubts
that existed around it. Those who did not know it and those who did not believe
 that could contribute anything different to this River thought a man of area t
hat lives for the goal, with a player who knew that it(he,she) did not take an
insured place and that it(he,she) killed itself it to achieve, with a pibe that
 it(he,she) delivers everything what has in every party(game). All these qualit
ies that it(he,she) showed him(her) served also to convince more important Astr
ada —lo for him(it) — of that today is a step most above(up) of Maxi Lopez in
 forwards' scale and because of it the vest will take number 22 in the Glass.

" I want to remain here ", Jose was repeating before the rumors of which other
clubes were looking for it or from which in Defenders they were expecting for h
is(its) return. His(its) desire, his(its) aim(lens), his(its) obsession, his(it
s) dream, was to have the chance that had not had in River. Peleo for it and it
(he,she) obtained it. It(he,she) is in the list of her(it) Liberator, today ear
ly he(she) will travel to Venezuela and on Wednesday it will be sat in the bank
 of substitute, as the first option to replace Cavenaghi. Behind it(he,she) lef
t the steps to lending(borrowing) for Colon, Independent Rivadavia (Mendoza), V
itoria (Brazil) and Defenders, where it(he,she) grew and matured. " If they did
 not make me free it(he,she) is because they were interested in me ", one count
ed.

Astrada it(he,she) gave to him(her) these opportunities that it(he,she) had not
 had and Sand —cuyo I relate it(he,she) promises and takes a short cut in Rive
r's seventh one — he(she) took advantage of them to the maximum. It(he,she) ga
ve good results very well in both parties(games) that it(he,she) played complet
e in the summer. In the debut before Independent it(he,she) did the transitory
tie and in the last superclassic one also it(he,she) fixed another goal. Beside
s, it(he,she) was in the 32 minutes that the shock lasted with The St Lawrence
and entered awhile against Mouth, in Mar del Plata, exactly Maxi Lopez.