Carlos Timoteo Griguol died: the teaching coach who changed the history of Ferro and all those who crossed his path

Hernan Sartori

05/06/2021 8:42 AM

• Clarín.com

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Updated 05/06/2021 9:11 AM

“Come, come, sing with me, that you are going to find a friend.

That from the hand of Timoteo we are all going to turn around ”.

The song is a workhorse for Ferro fans.

Carlos Timoteo Griguol is

the hero of the West

.

Those verses he heard clearly since his advance football caught his clients and fans from before the first title in the

1982 Nacional

, led the team to the Copa Libertadores and achieved the double in the

1984 Nacional

.

And they never stopped singing.

Because the

Master was, is and will always be Ferro.

He felt it every time he heard those same verses when he went to the Héctor Etchart stadium to watch basketball in the National League, with or without his players.

And when he was still jovial and with a smile on the surface, although with the ailments of age marking his mind on fire, he danced every time he went to the field and the fans cheered him on.

Maybe he did not understand that the words, the admiration and the applause were for him, but he would get up and say hello like a party. It happened every time I went to Caballito and it happened that sunny afternoon on October 1, 2011, on the San Lorenzo court, in the run-up to the game against River by former Nacional B.

A waterfall of love embraced

Timo

.

Not to be confused.

Griguol is not wanted in Ferro for having led him to glory in the first game that this journalist saw with his grandfather on a field, in the former life sector, near the corner flag between the local tribune and the covered stalls .

Timoteo

is admired

by

Argentine soccer

for being a trainer of men, a teacher of humans, the second father of children away from their families, a counselor for adult players ...

Carlos Griguol, teacher of teachers.

The anecdotes that surround the

Master

are of humility, altruism, commitment to the collective, solidarity and work. Very, very far from the lights. And perhaps that is why it was

sadly attacked

even at the time of the Golden Ferro. Yes, that

undefeated champion in 22 games

, with a scorer included (Miguel Ángel Juárez), who was armed from back to front, with triangulations that were novel for the time, scoring without hitting deviously and with a game by the bands that culminated in goals from all colors. That is why every so often you hear:

“They say that we are a boring team, that we speculate, that we play backwards ... All journalism sucks an egg. I love Caballito more and more ”

.

Carlos Aimar

, Timoteo's field assistant, has an explanation: “He

was an advance in all aspects

, but at that moment there was discord Bilardo versus Menotti and they put him on Bilardo's side.

When in reality Timoteo had things of both and things of his own.

And since Ferro was doing well on top of that, we ruined their business and they attacked us

”.

In the same episode 7 of “Estación Caballito”, an extraordinary podcast available on Spotify with football stories and Ferro's life,

Víctor Marchesini

synthesizes what Griguol was: “I came to try out from Gualeguaychú and stopped at a hotel.

Without need, he would pick me up in his car and we would continue to Pontevedra ”.

Years later, he would become one of his sons-in-law.

If

Cacho

Saccardi

was the heart,

Beto

Márcico

the class, the entire defense a wall and the team a whole designed to succeed,

Carlos Timoteo Griguol was the soul of Ferro

.

Much more than that statue in the headquarters and the name of the pension where dreams continue to be forged.

Carlos Timoteo Griguol poses with his statue and his family members, in the tribute they made to him at the Ferro headquarters in 2016.

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"Kid, grab the plate and buy an apartment.

No expensive cars, huh ”

.

That message was received by dozens of players who passed through his hands at Ferro.

And every three months I asked them what they had done with the twine.

If even

Oscar Acosta

told an anecdote of when he passed through the door of Avellaneda avenue with his white Ford Sierra and drove a hidden block because Timoteo was at the door: “He would fart us and expose us in front of everyone to improve. And Aimar insisted so much on the money that I bought my old woman the house where she lives ”.

There was something basic for Griguol:

that the kids did not abandon their studies

.

Those who had not finished high school were enrolled in school and Aimar was the tutor of the pensioners.

The one where football coexisted with basketball and volleyball.

Because

the Ferro de los 80 was the National Sports University

, distinguished by UNESCO in 1988, with achievements and trainers such as Timoteo,

León Najnudel

, Julio Velasco and many others.

They got together with the kids from the Inferiores, psychologists approached them and even gave them talks about sex.

Thus it was achieved that the Ferro athlete was integral on and off a court.

The kids knew they were going to have their chance.

And those from the First team did not concentrate and would get together four hours before at the club.

What Marcelo Bielsa did with Leeds when inspecting its infrastructure, Griguol had done 40 years earlier at Ferro.

“He was an egg-breaker: he bought tractors and seeds, and he watered.

The courts had to be impeccable.

He was always at the forefront and always wanted more,

”says Marchesini.

The soccer team was armed from back to front, with jobs so that the centrals came out, the sides were projected like planes and triangulations were created to progress on the field.

If it did not come out, the ball to "5":

Cacho

Saccardi.

And start over.

And if not, hit the "9" and the midfielders to the rebound.

And

pressing

was trained

to take a certain rival player to a sector of the court.

The relationship between Griguol and Najnudel was so close that as early as 1980

basketball

curtains

were being trained

for corner kicks

. The executor and the protagonists who were in the area knew where the ball was going to land and the movements had to be coordinated without being necessary. And sometimes

Diego Maggi

and

Javier Maretto

, champions of the National League, joined the practices to throw their bones on those who should receive the full-backs.

Yes, it was practiced until how to hold the ball with basketball players behind.

Every Wednesday they saw videos of Ajax from the Netherlands that Adrián Paenza brought them closer, as he did with those of the NBA for León.

And the preseason at Villa Giardino was a classic.

“We were

spitting blood.

It was inhuman.

It cost us 20 days or a month, but in the championship we went over it, ”recalls Marchesini.

Courtesy of

Luis Bonini

and

Enrique Polola

, who later became the producer of the farewell party in Córdoba, to which they invited people as long as they brought donations.

So Timoteo had fun as one of the others and dressed up.

Carlos Griguol, in a Ferro with Fantaguzzi, Cancelich and Brandoni, among others, in 1986.

It was the golden age, which marked Ferro with the seal of Carlos Timoteo Griguol.

He went to River and came back.

There was a generational change and it was even

trashed

by some fans, in

one of the biggest insults suffered by a club icon

.

“Timoteo, watchful, send them forward.

Timoteo, asshole, they always break our asses.

Ay, ay, ay, ay, Timoteo can't take you anymore! "

some ungrateful ones sang to him.

There are those who subscribe that because of those miserable that day

the descent of Ferro

was sentenced

, which would happen in 2000 and has so far in the second category.

For the

Old Master,

that place is reserved for those who improve others even without knowing them.

Those who do not abuse a power relationship but take advantage of it to assert their voice of command with work that is later paid off.

Those who teach because it is their work, but above all because it is

their passion

.

Those who have a unique angel and leave a trail when they leave.

Those, like Carlos Timoteo Griguol, are an example in life and leave lessons for posterity.

That is why the town of Ferro says goodbye to their

dear

Old Man

with eternal thanks.

Fly high,

Master

...

HS

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