2024-06-21
Julio González, who plays for the Pumas in the Liga MX, will be in charge of defending the goal of the Mexican team in the debut of the Copa América 2024 against Jamaica.
In the preview a lot is being said about him, especially about the curious gloves he will use in this match on Saturday.
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And Julio González uses gloves that are only for four fingers, it is the one on his left hand. What is the reason?
The goalkeeper himself has requested these atypical gloves and it is a medical issue, something that not many knew.
“He broke his finger, few people know, at first it was not known. Now it is public, first it was discovered that it was a dislocation, I got to see the x-ray and it was separated,” said Alejandro Reséndiz, general director of Elite Sport, the company that manufactures the gloves for the Mexican goalkeeper.
The blow came when Julio earned his starting place in Pumas. He had the option of having surgery, but he chose to continue like this and endure the pain.
“We have some gloves, not top of the range, but with ribs. He asked me for gloves like that, to tie his fingers and have support, because it hurt him a lot. He didn’t want to stop, he was in a good moment and there is competition, and he held on. There we made him the offer to design a four-finger glove, for three reasons, one so that he would stop using the mid-range ones, two so that you don’t use rods and three so that you are more comfortable,” explained the director of the company that manufactures González’s gloves.
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“You have Mickey Mouse hands.”
The wife of the Mexican goalkeeper passes by saying that he already has hands like Mickey Mouse, something that has gone viral.
“His wife told him if he was going to play as Mickey Mouse (laughs). The glove then went viral, it was made in various colors, it was also used in black with blue, in white with black, memes were made and everything with the gloves,” Reséndiz mentioned to ESPN.
2024-06-21 19:58:00
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