With foreign heritage and Latin roots in Babyfutbol
14 enero, 2024Enzo Trejos and Miguel López come from the “Coroncoro” Perea soccer school.
Photo: Manuel ‘El Chino’ Quintero
By: José David Chalarca Suescum
After the parents of Enzo and Miguel got to immigrate to the United States in search of the American Dream, both families opted for the Luis Carlos ‘Coroncoro’ Perea school, located in Miami, to continue their children’s soccer legacy that many of them had in Colombia.
Enzo Trejos has Dominican roots from his grandparents and Colombian roots from his parents, while Miguel Lopez has Mexican roots from his father and Colombian roots from his mother. Both are members of the United States representative team participating in the 39th edition of Babyfutbol Colanta; a team that, like most of the players on the North American team, hails from different Hispanic American countries such as El Salvador, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico.
Trejos has been the team captain for several years. He has black hair and is one of the pillars of the defense with his great strength since 2016 when he joined the ‘Coroncoro’ Perea team. He loves playing soccer because it allows him to remember Barranquilla, the birthplace of his parents, as well as how happy soccer makes him:
“Soccer makes me see what they went through as children and what we didn’t get to see or experience. Also, playing brings me peace and I enjoy it. I love having fun with my teammates as if it were any other game,” Trejos recalled with a smile on his fourth visit to Colombia with the North American team for Babyfutbol.
Miguel Lopez is also part of the U.S. central defense. Similar to his teammate, he also inherited the blood of Latin soccer, particularly from his grandfather, who participated in 1991 with the Deportivo Cali delegation.
“Playing here feels incredible and allows me to experience various emotions just like my mom did here,” López acknowledged, who has also visited the ‘coffee’ country four times and hopes, like Enzo Trejos, to continue at the Coroncoro Soccer Club in Miami with the Latin legacy that runs through their soccer blood.
