Who is Luquitas Rodríguez, the creator of 'the theory' about Colombian footballers

Giuliana Pasquali

05/24/2021 7:01 AM

• Clarín.com

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Updated 05/24/2021 8:00 AM

Colombian Edwin Cardona takes the ball in Vélez's court, kisses it and shakes a right hand under the barrier that reaches the net and justifies the qualification that Juan Román Riquelme gave him days ago: "a genius."

Cardona himself appears in the penalty shootout for Boca to win once and for all a superclassic cross to River de Gallardo.

He chooses to bite it, he does it wrong and the end is known to everyone.

"It is the theory of Luquitas Rodríguez,"

points out Juan Pablo Varsky, a commentator for the party, followed by millions of people throughout the country and abroad.

But what is the theory?

And who is Luquitas Rodríguez?

"Colombian footballers play the ball without context: neither for the better nor for the worse, that always amused me. That is, the same reason why one can make a Chilean in the middle of the field and finish in a goal or by which can elbow an opponent without any logic. It's like they can't connect with the context of the game. They play all the games the same: they restart and all the games are the same. Then, what happens happens, like Cardona taking a penalty ",

Lucas Rodríguez

(29)

explains

to

Clarín

.

A fan of soccer and Boca, he wanted to be a journalist, but discovered that his thing was acting when stand up cured him of a deep anguish that he suffered as a young man: today he is

one of the streamers of the moment

.

-You could say that the stand up was your therapy ...

-Yes.

I also recommend doing therapy, ha.

If you feel bad, go to therapy, don't go to a stand-up course like I did ... Go to therapy, talk about what hurts and build on that.

It worked for me at that time

.

It served me a lot.

Lucas Rodríguez

was 18 years old when the shreds of his dream turned into anguish. He had gotten his first formal job at Marini Gourmet, a restaurant that ran at 3600 Santa Fe Ave., but at the same time he decided to slam the door. "

The 2010 World Cup

was starting and I was a boy. I thought: 'Why am I going to be here, if they pay me badly and it's a pretty shit job ...?' So I left," he says. Soon June arrived and his attention turned to what was happening in South Africa, accompanying a

Selection

directed by Diego Maradona, the captain of his happiest days.

Argentina's

bulky fall

against Germany

in the quarterfinals only plunged him into a sadness that he carried for months. "I didn't grow my hair. I

had a little hairless hole in my head

, and that hole got bigger and bigger. There came a point - he remembers - when it looked like a world map, I had half a head without hair. Something unpresentable. It seemed to be I was going to lose all my hair. " It was then that an invitation to a

stand-up course

ran into his path and everything began to change.

His appearance on stage with

Roberto Galati

, partner in the Rodríguez & Galati duo, was just the beginning of a career that exploded in the middle of quarantine due to the coronavirus: he decided to venture into Twitch, where he accumulates more than 192,700 followers, and the fragments of his streamings They became a regular on other platforms such as Twitter and Instagram, where they also have a massive audience. He even developed

a series of codes

that quickly became viral through the networks. "My streaming is a place where

people like me fall

, who laugh at the same stupid things that I do, and we repeat them to join forces and the next day get up, go to work and continue with real life," he sums up.

✨🇨🇴THE THEORY 🇨🇴✨ @ LuquitaRodrigue pic.twitter.com/e9jxxXIEdH

- Ex ✨🇨🇴LA TEORIA🇨🇴✨ (@QEPLuquitas) January 15, 2021

-You go to Twitter and read everyone talking about "The theory."

Not only that: even Juan Pablo Varsky mentioned it.

Did you imagine it was going to have this repercussion?

- (Laughter) No, never.

While I believe that it is true,

I did not think that so many people would see it in the same way

.

Not because it is something valuable in itself: it is stupid.

But he did not imagine it.

Luquita, as he is known in the virtual world, maintains as great a bond

with sports as with cinema

.

He has tattooed James Stewart -whose portrait many confuse with that of Juan Domingo Perón- and Los Simuladores, he decorated his apartment with iconic objects from various films, he participates in a movie

podcast with his friends

, he wore the

Enganche

t-shirt

on FM 947

for two years and today he added to his streaming project a cycle of interviews to which he coordinates with his producer, Agustín Bronzini.

It is no coincidence: he once

thought about becoming a journalist

, but he did not prosper.

-What happened?

-I was hooked, but I was very involved with stand up and I wanted to dedicate 100% of my time to that.

Anyway, it was a beautiful moment:

in 2011, when River went to B, I was in TEA

.

Great moment to be in TEA: I was in contact with football and River was collapsing every week.

-That boy who played Winning Eleven with his friends today does it against players like Kun Agüero ...

- (Smiles) Terrible. It was with Rodríguez & Galati that I began to approach the players, because they would watch our videos or someone would come to the theater. I became good friends with Diego Perotti, for example, and he was terrible.

The Agüero thing is great, but it was recently and it did not surprise me so much

because I was already coming from that experience. At first, what I liked the most about Rodríguez & Galati was that: the approach to football, being able to talk with Boca 9 ... That's what I wanted.

The humorist describes himself as

a shy person

, although at the time of work he leaves it aside. You don't like social gatherings, but you feel comfortable interacting with those who,

as parishioners, join your streaming

every time you decide to broadcast. Understand that, between them, some negative opinion always leaks out. "It is

one thing to be self-critical and another for each comment by @ piporossi02345 without a photo on Twitter to get you

, it gets you deep and makes you turn the way all the time, "he explains. The analysis continues:" You go on the Internet, you see that a guy put 'Marcelito is stupid' and Marcelito can slip, but at some point he gets into it.

If you read 'he's stupid, he's stupid, he's stupid ...', when you wanted to realize it, you're looking inside to see if you're stupid. "

-This is how fights arise like the one between Ibai Llanos and Gustavo López ...

-Good fight, ha. It was hilarious. When a topic becomes the N ° 1 focus in the public capacity, the usual clichés appear:

people saying that the bad things that some do is the good that others do, and nothing is absolute

. Digital media are still in a growth stage where they do not have as strong interests as traditional media may have, and that brings up some different voices. I believe that at some point they will have the same miseries as the traditional media ...

In this case, if Gustavo López is in one corner and Ibai is in the other, I will go to Ibai's

.

But if there are 40 million Argentines hitting Gustavo López on the floor, a journalist that I don't like at all, I'm not going to go there to hit him on the floor to wash away guilt.

I kept the funny part

, not the solemn or serious part that they wanted to give him.

-Saving distances, have you ever felt in Ibai's place?

-Surely, but I don't get much of it.

In an ideal world, we would all talk about what we know nothing else

, but the world is absolutely the reverse. The present time drags us all the time to speak and comment on things that we do not know. So, the Gustavo López thing happens in the bar on the corner. It is wrong, because it is not right, but it is not something that escapes a gear that exists.

This is not to be read as an outrage to Gustavo López, eh

. But what is the value of what you say? Not Gustavo López. Change it. Any other journalist, anyone who speaks of ignorance. It doesn't seem very constructive to me.