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San Martín de San Juan was promoted to the First Division after beating Gimnasia de Mendoza 2-0 at the Julio César Villagra Stadium, the home of Belgrano de Córdoba, with two headed goals: one by the experienced forward Federico González and another by Nazareno Fúnez, who had replaced him. In this way, the Verdinegro won the final of the Reducido de la Primera Nacional and will return to the top category after having been relegated in 2019. Together with Aldosivi, they will be the two new teams that will make up the Professional League of 30 participants. The San Juan team, which will be the only club from its province in the division and will once again cross paths with Godoy Cruz in the Cuyo derby, was the team that had added the most points in the regular stage, since it finished second in zone A with 70 points. It had reached this definition after beating Nueva Chicago in the semifinals, All Boys in the quarterfinals and Gimnasia y Tiro de Salta in the round of 16. In the first half, which started with strong play from both sides and plenty of inaccuracies due to nerves, the San Juan team had taken the lead after 24 minutes with a great goal from Ezequiel Montagna, but thanks to the inclusion of VAR, justice was done: the ball had gone over the goal line before Maximiliano Casa's cross and the play was disallowed. That play was the most emotional of the first half in which Raúl Antuña's team controlled the game, although without creating too much danger, while the Lobo from Mendoza dedicated itself to counterattacking, but suffered from the inaccuracies of its forwards and had almost no clear scoring chances, apart from a header from Diego Mondino after a corner, which went close. In the second half, the match changed completely. First, Luis Silba had an unbeatable chance to define one-on-one against goalkeeper Matias Borgogno, but the ball went just over the crossbar. Two minutes later, after a free kick for San Martín, the former striker of Estudiantes and Tigre, among others, headed the ball in to make it 1-0 for the Verdinegro. From that moment on, the team led by Ezequiel Medrán became desperate to tie the final and were quite weak in defense. That was how at 32' Fúnez, who was called up again after an appendix operation, scored the final 2-0 with a shot at the corner. After the whistle of Nicolás Ramírez, who had a good game, the madness broke out in the stadium between the fans who traveled in search of the dream and the team that had started under the technical direction of José María Martínez and achieved promotion with Antuña, a historic former player and idol of the institution. For more information, visit http://www.tycsports.com