Iván Ojeda set to play for San Martín de las Escobas | OneFootball

Iván Ojeda, a 21-year-old forward who joined Colón from Pucará and signed his first professional contract at the beginning of 2025, will leave the Sabalero to join Club Atlético y Recreativo General San Martín de las Escobas on a one-year loan, according to information from Brian Borra.

THE PLAYER’S STORY

In April of this year, he looked back on his story with LT9 AM 1150:

“My career started when I was about eight years old. I’m from the Pompeya neighborhood. I started playing at Club Pucará, which is just a few blocks from my house,” he recalled about his first steps, the ones that kept him connected to football until he was 16, when the opportunity at Colón appeared.

But the jump was not easy. Two consecutive ligament injuries brought everything to a halt. “It was very difficult, but we worked very hard and managed to get through it,” he said. Although there was a moment when everything hung by a thread: “With the second injury, after already having surgery, I thought about not continuing anymore. I started working as a bricklayer with my old man. My leg had gotten very thin, and things were tough.”

When it seemed like football was being left behind, a phone call came that changed his story. “After one or two weeks, Claudio Carmona called me, asking how I was doing. They told me it was important for me to recover and offered me a place in the club residence,” he said. That opportunity was the turning point. “That gave me hope. I talked it over with my family and they accepted right away. I moved into the residence to recover,” he added.

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