Diego Cervero: DOC changes the boots for the robe in a pandemic

He wore the shirt of Marbella, Lealtad, Logroñés, Fuenlabrada, Mirandés, Burgos, Atlético Baleares and now, that of Barakaldo, but the name of Diego Cervero is forever linked to scoring goals with the Real Oviedo elastic.

Cervero knew that 'dark street' that an Oviedo walked on the brink of disappearance that Sergio Cortina described so well and based on goals he managed to get out with his own, becoming an idol like few others in the Tartiere. 141 goals with the blue shirt coming out three times as the top scorer of the Third justify it.

In addition to scoring, Diego Cervero is a doctor, which earned him the nickname of 'DOC'. The forward put his two vocations together and was able to combine them on the basis of hard work. “I trained in the morning, I took the 'tupper' and I stayed until 11 at night in the library with my thermos of coffee,” he acknowledged in an interview with La Rioja. In 2012, it almost changed to drill nets for medicine. The MIR arrived, a final that had to be prepared for many days seen on the calendar. “I finish contract and if there are no good offers, in June I will be preparing the MIR”, he confessed in this same talk.

The offer came, of course, from the Tartiere. Diego returned to Oviedo, which allowed him to combine both passions. The striker graduated in Medicine and Surgery but never practiced. Soccer is still the obsession of the ninth top scorer in the bronze category of national soccer and now, it is almost impossible to be nine and a physician at the same time. “I will stay until football leaves me. I am very hooked. I feel privileged and I am aware that there are people who have a very hard time and kill themselves to work to eat,” he said in El Correo Vasco.

This feeling of privilege, awareness and being a doctor made him roll up his sleeves to help against the coronavirus by changing his shield. Instead of wearing the Barakaldo's, . First, the tip offered to help as a doctor on Barakaldo's social networks and, finally, he signed up as a volunteer doctor at the Red Cross in Oviedo.

There, he works with people at risk or, directly, in social exclusion. A “reality bath” in one of his first experiences in the practice. At the moment, it will continue on the green but the days of dressing gown are approaching. Just like hanging boots. Those that so many goals have scored and which for sure, have some pending before the health of others is their main occupation.