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Chimy Avila's journey to LaLiga: From poverty, sacrifice and tragedy to starring at Osasuna

Chimy Avila is an open book and what a book. An extraordinary story inked on his skin: a tale of survival and miracle, of poverty, guns and crime, of football too, all of it told raw and unfiltered. "This is the journey so far," he says, pointing at the tattoos all over his body, the messages and moments that made him. A journey always present and not finished yet. "People say don't look back but I look back always because if you don't know where you've come from you don't know where you're going," he says.

It is written right here.