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What a season for Willian Pacho! Arrived final summer time at PSG for € 45 million from Frankfurt, the place he was nonetheless little recognized to most of the people, the Ecuadorian central defender skilled a blinding ascent. At simply 22 years previous, he gained every little thing with Paris: Ligue 1, nationwide cuts, and particularly the Champions League, the very first within the historical past of the membership.
A coronation historic continental that makes him the primary Ecuadorian participant to lift the Champions League. A feat greeted in his native nation. This Wednesday, the Nationwide Meeting of the Ecuador suspended his session to pay tribute to the “rock” of the Parisian protection, by awarding him the Vicente Rocaferte Prize for sporting benefit.
Accompanied by his household, Francisco Egas, president of the Ecuadorian Soccer Federation, and Niels Olsen, president of the Meeting, Pacho obtained this distinction in a very shifting environment. Just a few days earlier, on July 17, the participant had already made a detour by his coaching membership, to thank him in individual and supply jerseys flocked in his identify, proof of his nice humility, on and off the sector.
This spotlight confirms somewhat greater than Willian Pacho is just not solely a terrific participant, but in addition a person of values, who has grow to be a nationwide delight for the equator … and a pillar of PSG.
