VIDEO | Vélez's sweet gesture: team announced with children's drawings | OneFootball

Club Atlético Vélez Sarsfield was at the center of an especially sweet and original moment. Before its match against Defensa y Justicia at the José Amalfitani Stadium, the stadium’s giant screen announced the starting lineup using drawings made by children from the club’s art workshop.

The initiative, jointly coordinated by the club’s Department of Culture, replaced the usual formal photos and digital animations of the players with hand-drawn portraits full of color, childlike strokes, and plenty of creativity.

An “illustrated” lineup that moved the fans

As the stadium announcer named the players coached by Guillermo Barros Schelotto, the new LED structure at the Amalfitani displayed distinctive versions of figures such as Manuel Lanzini, Tomás Marchiori, and Lisandro Magallán, recreated on paper by the kids. The heartfelt gesture quickly went viral on social media, where Vélez fans and football fans in general praised the warmth of the idea.

As for the match itself, the game, valid for the fifth round of the Clausura Tournament, ended in a 1-1 draw against the Halcón of Varela. Lanzini himself opened the scoring early, in the 4th minute, while Leandro Fernández netted the equalizer in the second half. Although El Fortín let slip the chance to climb to the top of Zone A, the night in Liniers had already been marked by one of the loveliest institutional gestures of the championship.

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