The Boca Juniors right back is amazing.Juan Barinaga began the year as the owner of the position, above Luis Advíncula, who left for AlianzaLima, and it seemed that Lucas Blondel was going to gain ground in Claudio Úbeda’s consideration.However, Marcelo Weigandt won him the fight after returning from a loan at Inter Miami, although Chelo does not offer guarantees in the fund either, while the former Tigre remains without officially adding minutes for nine months.
This situation motivated a debate on the F90 program, a cycle broadcast by ESPN.When reviewing Blondel’s situation with a view to this Friday’s match against Racing in La Bombonera, his partner, Morena Beltrán, left philosophical comments in her role as a journalist within the program.First, Augusto César, a columnist for the sports channel focused on the news of the La Boca club, reviewed that the defender had played 45 minutes during the friendly at the beginning of the year against Olimpia.“In eight months,” the panelist was heard saying about the limited filming that her boyfriend had since Miguel Ángel Russo arrived and Úbeda inherited the position due to the death of the coach.
Last January 18, Sonrisa, such as Beltrán’s nickname, jumped to the Estadio Único de San Nicolás instead of Barinaga to play the complement of the match with a 2-1 victory against the Paraguayan team.In this way, he once again added continuity in the First Division of the Ribera team, after his last time had occurred on May 19, 2025: he played the 90 minutes with Mariano Herrón as coach in the elimination against Independiente for the quarterfinals of the TorneoApertura at home.
Next, Marcelo Cholo Sottile maintained that Blondel’s present goes beyond the consideration he has in the squad: “He can be the third or fourth lateral, but what it seems from the outside is that he does not compete.”Regarding this, Morena Beltrán once again left her impression with a brief comment: “It has no place.”
Later, the analyst, who also works in the broadcasts of the Professional Football League, had an exchange with Diego Fucks.He stated that Agustín Martegani, Lucas Janson and Kevin Zenón are called up regularly, but they do not add minutes at a time, although Morena differentiated the case from his partner: “But you feel part of the group. Zenón plays little, it is true, you are right, but he plays, he is part of the calls.”
Lucas Blondel arrived at Boca Juniors in mid-2023 after executing the termination clause with Tigre, which amounted to USD1,850,000.In March 2024, he suffered a sprained right knee with a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament and was able to return to the field in January 2025. He played 32 games with the Blue and Gold team, in which he scored four goals and provided one assist, and his performance led him to play four duels with the Swiss national team.
The 29-year-old footballer was a substitute in the three Club World Cup matches against Benfica, Bayern Munich and Auckland City and was not called up in 16 of 19 matches in the Clausura Tournament.
This motivated his request to go down to Reserve with the intention of adding minutes in the last stretch of the last calendar.His name was heard to reinforce Independiente, but Advíncula’s departure led him to stay waiting for a chance that never came with Úbeda.In the current Apertura, he went to the bench against Riestra and Estudiantes and was absent in the last three games.
Morena Beltrán even speculated about whether the love bond between the two could have had an impact on her lover’s career.”These months were more difficult because we have the uncertainty of why the coaching staff never wanted him, or wanted him so little. I know that was said, but it is unverifiable, although I feel guilty. At the time they said that I was not playing because of the bond I have with him. He has been there since mid-2023 and is the fifth coach he has had. With the previous four he may have been a starter or substitute, but he played,” he told the streaming program Unbox.
