Nunez grew up in Artigas, in Uruguay’s rural north. “He has this huge resilience inside him, this desire to keep going,” says Curutchet. It’s just one of those things I have to get past’.” “He had such a mature attitude,” recalls Curutchet. He went there to offer consolation and succour instead, it was the teenager who comforted him. Yet he was overcome by a feeling of unease that only subsided when he visited Nunez in hospital. Rationally speaking, Curutchet was not remotely to blame.
It was such a bad injury at what should have been his big moment.” “Apparently the pitch was in a poor state. “I got a lump in my throat when I found out what had happened,” Curutchet tells The Athletic, emotion adorning his voice. His knee had buckled under the weight of his body, tearing his anterior cruciate ligament.
Nunez had gone up for a header in a game against Sud America and landed awkwardly. Curutchet reluctantly assented and waited for word of Nunez’s latest exploits.īut the news, when it came, was devastating. There was only one issue: the under-23 team were fighting for a league title and wanted Nunez to play in the run-in. Nunez was only 17, but Curutchet knew he was ready.
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