04/11/2021 10:52 PM
Clarín.com
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Updated 04/11/2021 11:02 PM
The shot opens with a very close-up.
The face is known: Walter Perazzo.
A voiceover asks: "Do
you move, Perazzo
? Do you play thinking of Mexico?"
"
I move, Mauro
. And I play thinking about San Lorenzo", the forward responds seriously.
But the plane opens up and the Cyclone player wears a mariachi hat.
There was no need to explain it, on the other side of the screen everyone knew what it was about: "I move, Mauro", was part of the popular knowledge (of the Argentine soccer player).
The thing is, many millennials may not know it, but
Mauro Viale was one of the most popular figures in sports journalism in our country
.
In addition to having recounted Diego Armando Maradona's goals to the English at the Azteca Stadium, he was the face of First-Class Football before the arrival of Marcelo Araujo, who would innovate the sports narrative on television with his own style.
Without the exquisite verba of Víctor Hugo Morales, Viale got among the references of sports journalism of the 80s. And as such, he had
a phrase of his own factory that marked him with fire
.
If when the Uruguayan shouted his classic "ta, ta, ta" everyone knew that the goal was coming, or later Mariano Closs would patent the famous "it's a good moment",
when a player went to Viale looking at the camera, everyone knew that In First Soccer, the most important match of the date began
.
"Who moves,"
asked the then sportscaster on Sunday night football broadcasts.
"I move, Mauro,"
answered one of the party figures who, generally, was the number nine who stood in the central circle for the kickoff of the match.
Everything was recorded in the preview of the match or at the end in a clear complicity between players and producers.
And it was possible to achieve because at that time everyone wanted to be in First Class Soccer.
If El Gráfico was the magazine that set the rhythm of Argentine sports on fire for much of the 20th century, Fútbol de Primera was the iconic soccer program, from its inception in 1985 until it went off the air in 2009. A cult program .
And there Mauro began as a field chronicler along with great names such as Marcelo Araujo, Diego Bonadeo, Horacio de Bonis, Guillermo Cánepa and César Abraham.
In 1977 he began to narrate and headed a program called With a foot in the World Cup, which was the pre-event for the great 1978 World Cup event that our country had.
But the peak of his career in sports journalism came in 1985 when he joined Fútbol de Primera.
In a short time he would be the presenter of the shipment that was broadcast on Channel 9 at that time, until in 1989 he resigned to start venturing into the general interest journalism that we have known him in recent years.
Although he eventually returned to his first love, the ball, as he did during the World Cup in Italy 90 with Antonio Carrizo on the ATC screen.
This Sunday night, the former sports reporter died at the Los Arcos Sanatorium, product of a complication caused by a Coronavirus picture.
He had been admitted the day before.
And while everyone will remember them for the impact journalism that was the hallmark of their later years, they also left their mark on sports journalism.
