Orsini, on Platense and Boca: “We opened the doors to which we had to eat shit”: Olé

The relief for Platense arrived: after 120 years of history, he shouted champion by beating Hurricane 1-0 in a final played in Santiago del Estero. The title, in addition to marking an institutional milestone, was the symbolic closure of a football reconstruction process for many of its protagonists. One of them was Nicolás Orsiniwho, in tears and with the trophy in his hands, left a phrase that summarizes the feeling of a squad marked by resilience: “They opened the door to those who had to eat shit.”

The striker did not hide the rawness of his journey until he reached that moment. In their testimony, pride, pain and gratitude are intertwined. “Before coming here I was running around a court in the mouth”he recalled, referring to his stage at the Xeneize club, where he had been relegated. His arrival in Platense meant more than a new professional opportunity: it was a space to recover lost participation in other changing rooms. In that gesture of opening the doors to those relegated, the squid forged its identity as a team.

“This is the group of opportunities”emphasized Orsini, highlighting the collective value that drove Platense throughout the campaign. It is not just football, but a sense of belonging from sports marginality: players who found no place on other sides, but in Vicente López found containment and revenge. From that place, they were encouraged to compete and eliminated giants like Racing, River y San Lorenzo, No complexes or labels.

The championship, then, is just a trophy. It is, as he said, “An effort award, work”and a declaration of principles. Platense was consecrated with character and temperance, attributes born of pain but molded in mutual trust. Behind the 23 that came to the court, there is an entire club holding that deed. And in Orsini's voice, something deeper is heard than the celebration: the claim of those who, even from the shadow, never stopped fighting is heard.