Review
Patience in football so often has its limits. A process rarely lasts its due course. Yet for Bogota-based club Millonarios, reward for their stoical resolve amid a success-starved project has finally been bestowed.
With a dramatic penalty-shootout victory over arch-rivals Atletico Nacional in the Apertura league final, Millonarios clinched a16th Colombian league title. At long last, manager Alberto Gamero’s three-and-a-half-year wait was over.
As midfielder Larry Vasquez lashed home the decisive kick, Millonarios’ long-suffering fans spilled onto the pitch, players leapt around in joy and fireworks whistled in the Colombian capital’s night sky.
But one man remained alone.
