This Christmas, on the days when the clubs were still on vacation, without positives, without news, suddenly Atleti did not get off the Trending Topic on Twitter. The reason, a video of 1:01. In it, an old man was seen excited when opening his gift. Black box, silver Atleti crest. “Oh please,” she says and puts her hands to her eyes, crying. So much, and that he has not yet opened it. In the background, Sabina.
“Thank you,” he muses. “Ay, el Atleti”, he exclaims when opening and seeing: a vintage shirt. His emotion infects, penetrates, creeps. As soon as it was uploaded to the network, the video went viral as soon as it touched the networks. “To understand what is happening, you have to have cried inside the Calderón, which is my home. Or the Metropolitan, where my grandfather cried with, with my father by the hand“wrote its author, Cristian Loeffler (@crisloeffler). Soon, 18.5 million likes, 3,732 retweets, 3.2 million views.
And something that happened on Sunday, at Atlético-Rayo, when the rojiblanco club paid tribute to its protagonist, inviting him to follow the game from the box. He spoke with Tomás Reñones. He even hugged Simeone, leaving a phrase in his ear: “Never leave.” The president, Enrique Cerezo, received him and gave him another red and white shirt, this season. On the back, that last name: Loeffler. Name, Juan Carlos. Now the world already knows: Atleti’s grandfather, that viral man, is called like this: Juan Carlos Loeffler. And it represents that emotion like nobody else. Being from Atleti.