Argentina, 1985. It is raining in Buenos Aires and the lower divisions of Chacarita They train on courts where the mud beats the grass by a landslide. “Oh, what a ball I got from you!” exclaims the goalkeeper from La Quinta, his blond hair blowing in the wind, after flying from one stick to the other of the goal. The boy thinks Rambo, one of the fashion movies at the time. He is the first to finish the physical exercises. He does everything fast. He wants to show that he can tackle first. The boy is called Javier Edgardo Miley and admires Ubaldo Matildo “Pato” Fillol. He wants to be like him.
The economy and politics were far from the life of the presidential candidate today. He was passionate about soccer and music. The rock and roll of the Rolling Stones, above all. Armando “Cacho” Alejos, Funebrero’s recruiter, took him to the club after finishing elementary school at the Cardinal Copello. “Today he appears with brown hair, but he was blonde. He had a very big contraction to work: he wanted to be a professional goalkeeper ”, evokes Eduardo Grecco, his coach in the San Martín team, in dialogue with LA NACION. “He was an educated, applied person. His parents accompanied him everywhere. I directed it for a year and a half, ”he adds. Grecco, an entire institution in Chacarita (he continues to train players at the club), he makes his memory work: “He had a very good physique. He differed from the others in that he was a save, flying archer. Much better under the three sticks than coming out. Those were times when goalkeepers didn’t play with their feet”.
Javier Milei and the champion trophy with the San Lorenzo shirt, where he also played Courtesy Martín Núñez
“A match? You can’t measure your ability just by one match. But I clearly remember a 2-1 against River on the auxiliary field of the Monumental. It was his best performance with the Chacarita shirt, and the figure of that Sixth match, ”continues Grecco. “It didn’t disgust anything. We trained on fields that were good for paddocks. It rained or it was four degrees, we practiced the same. Nothing mattered. And he did things that we wondered… why does he do them? I threw myself and I was brave, but Milei was already euphoric ”, he says gabriel bonomihis partner in “La 70″ from Chacarita, his category.
As a central defender, Bonomi (one of the nearly 15 juniors of that litter who reached the top flight) heard the shouts of the “La Libertad Avanza” reference several times. “He spoke like most archers. No more than that, ”he evokes.
Doors to the inside, in the locker room, Milei had a hard time finding her place. The reason? In youth teams it is usually paid floor right. And aspiring soccer players from all social classes coexist. Someone did not forgive the “Loco del Arco” (he earned that nickname because of his style) for not lacking anything: father, a transport businessman and mother, a housewife, were always with him. “You had to live with those people.. I don’t know if he’s got punched by someone. I do know that somehow it was planted. And the others said: ‘Let’s not mess with this one,’” recalls Bonomi.
“He was not the alpha male of the locker room”, adds his former partner. “Nor of those who constantly encouraged you. He encouraged himself: he demanded of himself ”, continues Bonomi, today dedicated to an oil company. “He would have been a very good goalkeeper, with adrenaline pumping all the time; a kind of Chilavert”, compare. And he takes stock of the football career of the presidential candidate who won the PASO: “He played a few games in Chacarita and on the field he was just like he is now in politics: temperamental, effusive, passionate. He reminds me of the example of the Spartans in the movie ‘300 ′: Temperamental, vehement, faithful to what they think. The image he gives now is not a theater role. He is like that and he is convinced of what he says”.
“I played with him when we were 15 years old”remember for your part, Walter Basilean all-rounder who also put on the Chacarita shirt and reached the Under 16 team, led by Carlos Pachame. “He had the image of crazy, but he was a good kid. He came out, he yelled. He was not a bad goalkeeper: if he had to play it, he played it without problems. He would have had a future, but as a goalkeeper it is much more difficult to reach first than as an outfield player. And more so in Chacarita, which is a special club and they always bring goalkeepers”, says Basile, who shared the training sessions in Ezeiza with established players such as Juan Jose Borrelli, Alejandro Allegue, Pablo “Moncho” Fernandez y Christian Dollberg. Basile says that Milei had few goals because “the defense was great.” And that in the corners “he shouted and ordered them”. With the same force with which he today propagates the slogans of “La Libertad Avanza”, his political party.
Javier Milei, blond hair and goalkeeper uniform, during a match with the category 70 of Chacarita; to the right of him, Walter Basilehttps: //twitter.com/coco_viktor
The trajectory of the “Loco del Arco” had another shirt, in addition to the red and black of Chacarita. Although he was not signed, Milei was tested and stayed in Saint Lawrence. He was also part of “La 70″ del Ciclón, the same category of Juan Jose Cardinal, Gustavo Tempone y Osvaldo Ozzanand to which would also be added Juan Carlos Docabo, today the goalkeeper coach of the main squad of the Barça team. “He arrived in 1987 when he was fifth or sixth grader,” he recalls Martin Nunez, also an archer; also class 70. “He arrives in the middle of the year after having played in Chacarita. They don’t sign him, because the starting team was made up of guys who had been at the club for years. In the time he was at the club, he was never one of the locker room leaders, ”adds Núñez, today a hairdresser.
In the local Núñez, on José Bonifacio street at 100, in the heart of Caballito, there is almost nothing that refers to soccer. For politics, zero. Yes there are boxes of wine. And a coffee machine. In “The 70”, Núñez is “Chúcaro”, a nickname given to him by Juan Carlos Carotti, his coach at San Lorenzo. “He was fast and when he ran he moved his legs a lot,” says the former goalkeeper, who broke down playing daddy-soccer and, although he underwent surgery, he was never the same again. He stopped playing. “Milei compared herself to Rambo and did all the physical preparation very quickly. I wanted to demonstrate. He wasn’t very tall and sometimes he was paying: the forwards defined from above. He was always a histrionic goalkeeper, ”says Núñez between scissors.
When Milei arrived from San Martín, Núñez was a veteran in San Lorenzo: he had been with the club since the Ninth. “We saw him as very eccentric. It was already an earthquake, electric. He would take out a ball and scream. He harangued himself: ‘Oh, the ball I took from you!’” He evokes his competitor in the position, a regular starter until Juan Carlos Docabo’s arrival at the club from River. “Milei was not one of the main players, who ran a separate ranch. In the locker room there were groups, hierarchies. And he always wanted to join, he wanted to be a part. Since he was never recorded, he stopped going to training and we lost track of him ”, completes“ Chúcaro ”Núñez.
Javier Milei, in a family photo with his sister and parents Courtesy of the Milei Family
“The 70″ of San Lorenzo He recovered the trail of today’s economist and presidential candidate a short time ago. “I spoke to him and told him that we had a WhatsApp group. I asked him if he wanted to join and he said yes, but he wasn’t one to participate much. I added him and, as usually happens, he received some criticism from those who are not related to his ideology ”, recalls Núñez. Milei, already in the skin of the economist and politician that he is today, left the group without warning. “A month and a half he left alone,” completes his former partner.
“La 70″, who always played together in the lower ranks of the Cyclone, fell apart when they reached the fourth category, now without Milei. “Nothing was the same anymore,” says Núñez, the goalkeeper. However, the libertarian candidate would enjoy a champion title during his passage through the Boedo club. “The amateur soccer coordinator was Osvaldo Diez (now deceased), and used to put together tournaments so that those who did not play often and those who were not signed could have minutes. Milei plays one of those competitions and comes out champion. The team was called Forced of Almagro”, recalls his former partner.
Fanatic of training in his days as a goalkeeper, lover of Italian soccer (“It’s soccer-science,” he once said), emulator of “Pato” Fillol, billiards By nature and admirer of Fabio Capello, Javier Milei did not become a professional. Just a few training sessions with the Chacarita main team. Now, 52 years old. that “Rambo” class of 1970 who gave himself breath to reach an impossible ball and who practiced flying with a bar placed a meter and a half from the ground aspires to be president; he dreams of achieving as a politician what he could not as a footballer: play first.
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2023-08-18 10:41:00
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