Diego Cervero is a Latic

Way back in 2006 a Spanish striker called Diego Cervero had a trial at Oldham Athletic. He played in a couple of friendly games. Sadly the move never happened, but he still became a cult hero with a few latics fans partly due to his sideburns.

Recently I heard about a Spanish club called Real Oviedo in financial problems who needed help. They were offering shares in the club to generate money, so I decided to buy shares to help them out. Then I thought, is Diego still there?. Sure enough he was.

The club was saved with help from Sid Lowe, shareholders, fans & ex players like Michu, Cazorla and Mata.

Then through social media I I was able to make friends with fellow shareholders & fans, who made me feel welcome being part of the club, especially the Real Oviedo Shareholders Trust. 

Through that I discovered Diego wanted an Oldham shirt, so I was glad to help and sent a shirt with his name & number on plus my Oldham flag too.

This weekend he was given both the flag & shirt. Good to see him with an Oldham shirt at last but happy to see him in the Real Oviedo shirt scoring the goals for promotion this season!

 

here the Manchester Evening news story back in 2006
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/are-latics-going-loco-1040436