The man who invented the bow died

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Amadeo was more than a great memory; He was the forerunner of the goalkeeper-player incorporating his feet into his whole, perhaps as part of his dream of "center forward" when he came from Rufino to try on River in the early 1940s.

He added to his elegant, athletic and well-groomed presence a new aesthetic that began technically with the precise punch of his instep looking for the partner without a mark, coming out short or asking for it on the edge of the area to energize the game. His style was always anticipated by regulatory changes since he had been born to interpret the position until he became an unequivocal paradigm for all future generations.

They say that Amadeo died. It is not true. When? As long as the Monumental exists Amadeo will exist. It will be in their spaces and in the memories of all times of splendor when the fans sang: "People no longer eat to see Walter Gómez ... and A-ma-deo, A-ma-deo." He will be daring to play without knee pads, to put on brightly colored shirts, to put on his hands in “revolutionary” gloves that the other archers did not know, to form pyramidal barriers, to mark the departure of his defenders, to take care of his immovable hairstyle and wavy until it reaches its symmetrical temples.

Carrizo was to throw it fast and short so that the sides of three decades could start the game, hit it with three fingers to be killed by Adolfo or Ermindo, throw it long for the void created by Angelito or send it long for Artime or Pinino's pique. But he was also a good companion, a good man, too gullible or naive for those times of nocturnal and worldly boys.
Two times of the River Arch. Amadeo's style reached Barovero ... one of the many archers that Carrizo marked with his innovations.
Two times of the River Arch. Amadeo's style reached Barovero ... one of the many archers that Carrizo marked with his innovations.

They say that Amadeo died. But when? If every time he was killed, he was resurrected. Or was he not resurrected after Czechoslovakia's 6 goals at the 58th World Cup in Sweden when the world was a village and we had no idea who they were and how the others played? Of course he did: he was the best goalkeeper of the Nations Cup that Argentina won after beating Portugal, England and Brazil at home and with Pelé (3-0) in 1964. And although later the fateful little bum came in the final against Peñarol for the Libertadores (2-4 in Santiago), Amadeo's response was to continue being the best goalkeeper here and in Colombia, where he was also an idol, teacher and mirror playing for Millionaires between 43 and 45 years in agony of his art.

They say that Amadeo died. But when? If hundreds of boys wanted to be archers, achieve consecration and glory by taking some of the tools with which Carrizo eternalized his style. No, no, impossible to name everyone, but where did the Errea, the Gatti, the Irusta, the Pumpido, the Comizzo, the Barovero nourish themselves ... all were directly or indirectly disciples of Amadeo because he was not an archer , was the inventor of a post whose actor guards the bow.

Death at 93 is not an unexpected event, but it generates a painful tear.

It is that the memory refers to the afternoons of apogee when the crowd leaves recorded in the ears of the tribunes the “A-ma-deo; A-ma-deo ... "that becomes hymn and passion.

They say that Amadeo died. But when? If when touring the ring of the Monumental, climbing its tribunes, reaching its stalls, approaching the locker room, seeing children and young people dream of playing archery, his name will flower in space as a part of the club itself; he is River. As long as there are arches on the playing fields there will be Carrizo because they are the same thing as inseparable lovers of an indissoluble love.

Don't ask who the bell tolls for, they are tolling for Amadeo, the inventor of the bow.