Mamelodi Sundowns midfielder Gaston Sirino's incredible achievement in the DStv Premiership has been met with silence back home in Uruguay.
Sirino has been a league champion for all the seven seasons that he has spent in South Africa having joined Sundowns from Bolivian club Bolivar halfway through the 2017/18 campaign.
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Seven in a row in a new country and new club is no ordinary feat and gives him a push for consideration in the Guinness World Records.
It is a few players – if any – that have been a league winner in their first seven years with one club in a new country the way Sirino has done throughout his time with The Brazilians.
Yet Sirino is getting no notice or mere mention from Uruguay, where he was born and played his football at Rampla Juniors before leaving for Chile a dozen years ago.
In Chile, he spent four-and-a-half years before crossing to Bolivia, where he was a league champion twice before switching to Sundowns.
The move to South Africa – the country that has become his adopted home after acquiring his ID and becoming eligible for Bafana Bafana selection – has earned him legend status in the DStv Premiership.
Sirino has played in the domestic league for seven seasons and has been a league winner for all those campaigns.
Instead of embracing this as a heartwarming story, the Uruguayans have not even taken notice.
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The 33-year-old gets no mention in the mainstream Uruguayan media that takes little to no interest in football on this continent.
It was only when fellow Uruguayan Mauricio Affonso was at Chloorkop that Sirino was mentioned.
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