With each goal, a routine that is repeated: Borja Bastón kisses his arms, where, in the form of a tattoo, he includes a memory of his parents, Miguel and María del Mar. The Oviedo striker, a familiar type, has added his thumb to his mouth to his latest celebrations, for his daughter, second descendant, who is arriving. And the liturgy that follows each goal has been repeated on a regular basis lately. Bastón scores, Ziganda smiles and Oviedo looks up.
At 29 years old, the Madrid native seems to have found in Oviedo the perfect setting to recover his best version. The one that made him score 22 goals in Zaragoza and 18 in Eibar, already in First, between 2014 and 2016. The one that made Swansea pay 18 million euros for him after his accurate passage through Ipurua.
That million-dollar operation was followed by a curse and Cane never managed to be the same. Until arriving in Oviedo. With 7 goals, he commands the table of top scorers, along with Stoichkov, Rubén Castro and Sadiq. He is the new idol of the Tartiere.
They say that no one like Ziganda insisted on the signing of Bastón this summer. The striker was on Rubén Reyes’ list, but it was the coach who made a decisive bet on the man from Madrid. The forward did not rain the offers after a more than gray year at Leganés, just 5 goals. But the Cuckoo saw it clearly.
“He has not come only to score goals: he is integrated, he works like the most and is interested in tactical variations … With that mentality everything is easier, “Ziganda praised him after the blue victory against Malaga, with a double of nine. The Tartiere has managed to wake up an insatiable scorer in lethargy; the one who in Zaragoza was baptized as “Van Bastón”.