Roberto had the honour of witnessing the Atlas VS Pumas game transmitted live from Jalisco in Mexico by the US Latin TV Station Telefutura. It was a game filled with high expectations for both teams on 15th of March 2008.

The first half started with a red card at six minutes for Jimenez for unprofessional behaviour and a booking at eight minutes for Marioni for the same reasons. Jimenez and Marioni were players of Atlas and the conditions were created for the first goal by Solari for Pumas at ten minutes within the game. It was after this goal that Pumas was in total possession of the game. Solari scored the first goal by doing a direct kick into the right area of the net and surprising Atlas. After the first goal, the referees were starting to behave unprofessionally with arbitrary bookings of Rubero and Canturion. Solari was able to score a second goal at twenty eight minutes by a penalty and via a direct kick into the left area of the net with a surprised Atlas Goalkeeper with his empty hands and open mouth. It was not the way to go with Pumas possessing the game but Atlas had other tricks up its sleeve. The first half ended with Pumas winning Atlas 2 to 0.

The second half of the game was the time for Atlas and Marioni to restore their pride. Atlas recovered the possession of the game with the first goal by Omar Flores at forty seven minutes. Atlas started surprising Pumas with its play by play action as well as its discipline, tenacity, and direction. Marioni received his sweet revenge after his humiliating first half booking by scoring an equalizer at ninety three minutes. Afterwards, attempts by Puma and Atlas to win were unable to reach fruition since the game ended. Regardless, this was a game that was exciting and full of life. Atlas and Puma gave the spectators in Jalisco Mexico as well as the television audience a game of a near lifetime from the Mexican League. It was worth being able to stay up late until almost 1:00 AM in order to enjoy the game and the match analysis. Marioni was able to prove to the public that receiving a booking was not a disappointment but an inconvenience that helped him to go to bigger and better things such as an equalizer for the Atlas Team

Atlas 2-2 Puma

Atlas: 5/10

Puma: 5/10

Player of the Season: Marioni