The story of Manuel Guillen, the scoring winger who appeared in reserve

The river reserve sits at the highest point of the standings and enjoys a great walk with Jonathan La Rosa as the DT. Despite losing a few players recently (like Franco Camargo and Nahuel Casasola), the coach has managed to rebuild himself and put together a reliable and dynamic team, starting with Pena Biafor’s refinement, Alfonso’s imbalance and Flabian Londoo’s goals.

Unexpected or not, La Rosa also found itself in this tournament with an astonishing scorer: Manuel Guillen, The right-back is the team’s top scorer, having 4 rows with Alfonso and achieving all his achievements in the last five matches. He recently signed his first contract till December 2024 and slowly, fans started getting excited about his launch.

Who is Manuel Guillen?

Guillen is 20 years old and has one of the pawns that adore Gallardo: the norm, with overflowing power and who loves to step into the field. Between the ages of four and seven he played baby football in the Platens and from there he went on to try the river through the Parque Chas club. In his debut, he played as a central midfielder. Actually, his intention was to put him in the same position in the exam.

,I went to try on 5 and they gave me 8, because there were many central midfielders to play, I didn’t know what it was like to play as a perfect midfielder and had to ask a colleague where to position myself. I started there and then they put me in 4, then they told me I had stopped. It was a matter of pride for me and my entire family as we are all from the river”, he recently told the official site.

He’s no stranger to Gallardo. El Muneco watches everyone all the time and Guillen has already been allowed on a few occasions to train with a professional team due to the lack of some other footballer. Earlier this year he played an unofficial friendly against Defensoras de Belgrano in Azizas., in what was his first unofficial entry with the Primera team. Promise and more…