When Lautaro Martinez arrived at the famous Racing Club in Avellaneda, a port city in the Buenos Aires province, he was a homesick teenager. He missed his family back in Bahia Blanca, where he had grown up next to the Villa Mitre stadium, and wanted to return home.
But his determination to succeed was evident even back then — Racing’s psychologist Cecilia Contarino found that young Lautaro performed exceptionally well in the psychological evaluation, topping the football club’s entire roster in the concentration tests.
