Nahuel Leiva, the jaguar from Rosario who saves Oviedo with his goals

Nahuel (jaguar in the Mapuche language) Leiva has become the symbol of an Oviedo that caresses the permanence in Second, thanks to the goals from Rosario. Nahuel has six goals and his team has earned nine points. But up to this point in Spanish soccer, Nahuel has struggled a lot to get here.

In the juvenile category, he had problems to travel to the training sessions of his team, Rosario Central, even to buy boots. But when he was about to leave football, when Fabio Soldini crossed his life: the agent who also got Messi to Spain. The agent smelled the talent and decided to get involved in his career. Soldini signed him for Adiur (Union Rosario Children's Sports Group). Adiur's collaboration agreement with Villarreal did the rest.

But nothing would be easy. To begin with, Villarreal did not bet on Nahuel at first, he had to see him twice to convince him and he would like Leiva to join his disciplineAlthough a change in legislation, increasing the age for transfers, on the signing of minors forced him to stay at Villarreal for two and a half years training, but without playing. However, despite the fact that Marcelino opted for him, when he was 18 years old, he did not finish consolidating himself in the first team. Later he played for Betis, Barcelona B, Olympiakos, Deportivo, Tenerife and, now, Oviedo.

At the age of 23, he has had a broad career behind him, Nahuel now seeks to fulfill the expectations that were set on him in Oviedo in his day. At the moment, he is becoming important to ensure that Ziganda's team does not struggle in the last games of the season.