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Santiago Montoya lives a really complicated situation in Millonarios. Just when he was ready to give the club a hand in the return of the 2020 League, the Antioquia creative tested positive for coronavirus.
Bad luck has haunted him since he signed with the Albiazul team at the beginning of 2018. Serious injuries and long periods of recovery have prevented him from showing his full potential at El Campín.
Montoya’s Stations of the Cross began on March 23, 2018, when he was injured in a match between Millonarios and Alianza Petrolera. The news that came later was not encouraging at all. Rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament of the left knee. He was immediately operated on and was out for six months.
In November of the same year he was able to return, but obviously it took him a long time to catch up with the competition. In 2019, with preseason over and the illusion of a new challenge, the one born in Medellín began to be taken into account by Jorge Luis Pinto. Of course, in April he could not play due to a sprained ankle, but in the home runs in May he was vital.
When it seemed that his leading role would finally arrive, the blessed knee bothered again. A hit during the preseason of the second semester forced him to stop for 15 days and that would be just an announcement of what was to come.
In August it was conspicuous by its absence, while speculation grew. A month later, Pinto himself revealed at a press conference that his ’10’ had to be operated on due to “instability in his left knee.” It was a reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament, because it was “90%” torn. It was speculated with nine months off.
On April 23, 2020, seven months after very hard moments, the former Tolima was discharged. He had, according to him, a pandemic that “benefited me.” Finally a “good” one. And it is no wonder, the quarantine and suspension of the Colombian tournament allowed him to recover calmly without thinking about the desire to return to the field.
Precisely in those months, their greatest motivation is Emiliano, the child they expect with his partner Maria José.
He was also motivated by the arrival of Alberto Gamero to the Albiazul team, a coach who produced his best version in Deportes Tolima. So he saw action again on September 27, when he entered the 62 minute mark for Diego Godoy in the capital classic. The next game, against Bucaramanga, he played the entire second half and showed extremely interesting things.
But again, the goddess fortune played a trick on him. This Monday, September 5, two positive cases of covid-19 were confirmed in Millonarios and Montoya was precisely one of those infected. Instant mandatory isolation for 14 days and absence, for now, for four games (Tolima, Águilas, Envigado and Patriotas).
Thus, the 29-year-old footballer would be present in the last five games of all against all.
