The striker of Elche Lucas Ariel Boye has crowned what is already the best season of his sporting career with his debut with the national team Argentina in the match against Venezuela (3-0) corresponding to the qualifying phase for the World Cup in Qatar.
The attacker, who was summoned for the first time for the double international appointment these days, jumped onto the pitch in the 88th minute of the game to replace Nico Gonzalez in one of the most emblematic fields of Argentine soccer, La Bombonera, the stadium of River Plate’s rival, the club in which he was trained.
the debut of Lucas Boye26, with the national team confirms the best moment of his sports career after a few years in Europe in which he was far from the version he pointed out at the beginning.
Boyé’s soccer explosionwho already has the best goalscoring numbers of his career with seven goals despite having missed a month and a half of competition, has as its point of origin his arrival in Elche, where the Argentine found the ideal ecosystem to exploit his football.
The hiring of the forward was a personal bet of the owner of the entity, the Argentine businessman Christian Bragarnik, who recruited the player for his project, who had failed to succeed at Torino.
The bet of a newly promoted team for a striker like Boyé was surprising in Elche, since the attacker’s numbers on loan to European clubs -AEK Athens and Reading- were disappointing and his previous experience in Spain, at Celta de Vigo, It ended with a hasty contract termination.
Lucas Boye, Elche striker
Already in his first year at Elche, the attacker, under suspicion for his poor goalscoring numbers, added seven goals and was key in saving the team in the 2020-2021 campaign.
More than your figures, Boye He impressed with his football fundamentals and his ability to hold the ball and wait for his teammates’ offensive display.
Bragarnik saw an opportunity and executed in May 2021, even when the team was playing for permanence in the Spanish First Division, the purchase option of the player of the Torino.
Despite the arrival of more media players, such as Javier Pastore or Darío Benedetto, Boyé became Elche’s flagship this season. The player, who grew in his confidence, signed a great first round of the championship, which led him to enter the orbit, according to local media, of teams such as Seville, Atlético de Madrid or Barcelonaalthough its price, twenty-five million euros, cooled any movement.
In his last public appearance, Boyé stated that the “confidence” he receives from the club is the key to his performance and did not guarantee that his future will continue to be linked to Elche in the medium term. “In football, no one can give their word because new things happen all the time,” said the Argentine attacker, aware that his price rises like foam month after month.
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