Borja Lasso: "Thanks a lot, dear football ”
Borja Lasso, Sevillian midfielder from CD Tenerife, has announced this Tuesday its withdrawal from professional football. It does so as a consequence of the serious injury that suffered two years ago and that has prevented him from playing since then. A savage tackle that broke his left ankle a 20 from December to 2019 at Heliodoro before the Alcorcón and what has forced him to have surgery three times.
Borja Lasso, the wake of a young promise
Formed in the quarry of Sevilla FC, the footballer has always been characterized by having a great technical quality and one sumptuous vision that has allowed him on numerous occasions generate a lot of play.
He participated constantly as a starter in the Sevilla Athletic, with brilliant performances what led him to be summoned by the first team and dispute your first official match with the red and white shirt in a meeting of 1/16 Copa del Rey final in front of SD Formentera.
Behind this, the CA Health saw potential in him and decided sign him up at the winter market from 2018. Club where he was barely able to show off, but that will always remain in his memory since it was a great learning for him before arriving on the islands and showing his best version. Lasso signed for him CD Tenerife being Victor Moreno in sports management. In his initial campaign he participated in 17 matches with Jose Luis Oltra Y Luis Cesar Sampedro as coaches. Later, in the next, under the supervision of Aritz López Garai and later with Ruben Baraja on the bench, we could see it in its maximum splendor. In the League 2019/2020 led Tenerife during the 19 encounters, in which he scored 19 goals. But nevertheless, el destino pondría un obstáculo en su carrera como futbolista que le haría perderse los partidos restantes.
The 20 from December of 2019, during a match against him Alcorcón, Borja Lasso was hunted by Miakushko in the first minutes of the meeting, with a entrance from behind red card worthy, but what Gorostegui Fernandez admonished with a simple yellow card. A distal fracture of the left fibula, which will force him to undergo surgery and that would remove him from the grounds for four months, that in the end they ended up becoming some more, since it would be an injury that would drag the rest of his way as a professional and who wears it today, after three operations, a colgar las botas.
An early farewell
The footballer will make his march official this Friday in a Press conference that will serve as farewell, next to President, the technicians and the clothing of the rest of his companions. In the same way, will receive recognition from the Tenerife fans the next 2 from January, at canary derby which will also mean the first game for the blue and white entity in the year of centenary of its foundation. Further, this same wednesday, the island team's squad will jump onto the pitch, in the Cup clash against him Eibar, carrying the Borja Lasso t-shirt with the number 8 on the back as a tribute.
Lasso pointed out melancholy in his social networks that has fulfilled the "dream" of being a professional footballer and of debut in the First Division with the team of his life, the Sevilla CF. The sevillian, that in January will fulfill 28 years, has related that will miss "very much" playing football, pero que se marcha “sabiendo que i gave it all. Those who know me know that I have given myself to the maximum to be my best version. I have exhausted all possibilities to get my ankle back, But it could not be. I will sorely miss giving a partner an assist, poder devolverle una pared o celebrar un gol con la afición”.
Despite the setback that it means for Lasso, the footballer maintains that “todo lo que pasa conviene. That's what the best coach I've ever had told me. It is a phrase that I apply in my day to day and that will help me face this new stage of my life. It will be wonderful and full of happiness. Encararé al ciento por ciento todas las oportunidades que se me presenten”.
“By last, I can only tell colleagues who see this video not to forget to enjoy the most beautiful profession in the world. Thanks a lot, querido fútbol”, Lasso concluded by way of farewell.
