Julio Chiappetta
06/11/2021 7:01 AM
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 06/11/2021 7:01 AM
"In life you always have to be grateful and remember the people who help you
,
" he
repeated several times during the interview.
She was the face of Fox Sports prime time hosting the central newscast and was left out of the big billboard overnight.
“I have been an employee of Torneos for 27 years and I was the one that produced the Fox Sports signal.
When the merger took place, last September, ESPN determined who appears on its screen and it is perfect.
Injured?
No. At Disney they have the power to decide who or what, "explains journalist
Walter Safarian
with Franciscan calm
, despite
describing himself
as
" very restless. "
-What are you doing today?
-A lot of things ... I continue to record the Champions and Europa League programs for Fox Sports.
On Saturdays I do “Puro futbol”, on FM Late.
I am part of the soccer program in Ecuador, along with Fernando Carlos and Walter Queijeiro.
And I am the correspondent in Argentina for the group
Somos Gen
, from Paraguay, which has the newspaper La Nación, the radio Universo and the channel.
Journalistically, I am quite busy and I have no reason to complain.
Safarian is the Argentine correspondent for Grupo Somos Gen, from Paraguay, which includes the newspaper La Nación, Radio Universo and the TV channel.
-You are also an ontological coach. What do you do specifically?
-Coaching is an accompaniment methodology on topics that you want to work on.
For example, anxiety.
What I am looking for in that conversation is for you to leave your current state so that you can reach an ideal state.
It is not therapy.
I accompany many soccer players from Ascenso.
It is a conversation of one hour per zoom and there are those who plan
"the day after"
, because they go through the final part of their career, so that when the blind is lowered they do not feel the shock and are prepared.
And there is the one who wants to work
"his head"
to accommodate himself in a team because they do not play or do it intermittently.
Names?
No. In coaching everything is confidential.
-What is the "Lead Project"? Are you linked to this?
-It's my brand. In addition to being ontological coaching, I have a master's degree and I have a diploma in leadership. It is turning to podcasts the way of leading athletes and coaches, but always looking for the position that the leader occupies. I'll name you an example:
"Chicho"
Serna telling the leadership of (Carlos) Bianchi; The
"Beto"
Alonso recounting his experience as captain of River and, in turn, talking about the leadership exercised by (Angel) Labruna. It is understood? From (Rubén) Magnano, passing by
"Chapa"
Retegui, Julio Lamas or
"Pacho"
Maturana we talked about how is the management of a group.
Also (Rubén) Wolkowyski told me a lot of things about the people who led him.
Not only coaches, but also team captains or references.
The same is
“Pipa”
Gutiérrez, Carlos Páez (the son of Páez Vilaró) or Fernando Tornello, who explained to me the whole situation that happened with (Carlos) Reutemann when I was a boy.
All this helped me to the point of bringing into my everyday life situations that they experienced, with situations that did not close me, I had them hidden or did not pay attention to them.
Walter Safarian with Gustavo Fernández, the number 2 in the world in adapted tennis.
In his 53 years he lived
"thousands of stories"
with central sports characters.
“The greatest blessing my career gave me was having worked on the farewell of
Diego Maradona.
I was responsible for all the guests being on the Boca court and that day it was touching the sky with my hands.
Sebastián Rainelli hired me, with his company
Squadra
, in March 2001. I went every afternoon to an office, in Salguero and Libertador, and worked on the lists that Diego and Guillermo (Coppola) had put together by sending faxes. There was no mail then! There were footballers who dropped their pants, others who thought we were carrying them and others who did not even accept that they paid for their passage (such as Valdano or Matthaus, for example). Juventus did not give Trezeguet and Del Piero permission because they had to play. And David was heartbroken: he didn't know how to ask for forgiveness ”.
He immediately jumps to another memory about
El Diez
who died in November of last year: “Diego got up and saw on television that the field was empty.
'Guille, you lied to me.
You told me that all the tickets had been sold.
I'm not going! 'He
yelled.
'Ten, it's 10 in the morning;
they open the doors at one o'clock.
There is not a single entry.
People explode around the Bombonera '
… It was crazy.
I loved Roberto Baggio, but
no player in the world moved me on a court like Maradona ”.
"Carlos Bilardo is a friend of life whom I learned to love and value," says Walter Safarian.
Now it is Carlos Bilardo's turn: “He
is a friend of life, whom I learned to love and value.
Many of the things he taught me I continue to put into practice today
. I lived through thousands of situations, but there is one that stuck with me like a movie. The day we went to look for (Sergio) Goycochea at Telefé. We were having lunch at his house on Calle Bilbao and Pedernera, in Flores, with his wife Gloria and
"Bambino"
Pons. When he saw what was happening with Goyco (José Sanfilippo beat him on camera with the famous
'kid, you ate all the feints'
in the 5-0 Colombia-Argentina, at the Monumental) we went in the Renault Fuego that he had then . We entered through Matheu and Carlos went directly into the studio to defend the goalkeeper… ".
In this age of viral memes and videos, Safarian has the famous phrase
"Go, boby, go ...!"
that
Christian Martin
threw him
in Faro (Portugal), in a semifinal of the Eurocup.
“The Sweden-Holland match (now the Netherlands) had an extension.
And he tells me
'the first two players who come out of the winning team, you do them and we send it'.
A group of fans passed in front of me when I was doing the pompadour and Christian got angry.
That is a phrase hers of a lifetime;
He didn't just tell me.
Christian is the brother that I don't have… ”.
Walter Safarian and Christian Martin in coverage in Berlin, Germany.
"He is the brother that I do not have," he said about the Argentine journalist based in England.
He remembers with nostalgia the place where he studied (the Grafotécnico Institute) because "I pass by Moreno Street and I am very sorry that it no longer exists."
And he says that his relationship with Fernando Niembro (with whom he started on Channel 9 and continued on Las Voces del Fútbol, on Radio Libertad, along with Raúl Fernández, Ricardo Ruiz and Héctor Gallo) was interrupted at the end of 2014 when “he left the radio because he was going to dedicate himself to politics and we continued to do the program until 2018. He also moved away from Tournaments.
And now it makes me very happy that he has commented on the games again on ESPN ”.
-Why does Argentine football offer shows of such a poor level?
-Because it is played with too much fear.
There is little patience in Argentine soccer and the coaches are looking to save their workplace.
Carles Puyol and Walter Safarian in one of the Champions League editions.
-You agree with the "Bichi" Fuertes who said that "Guardiola destroyed football" because everyone wants to copy him and they don't have what?
-No… Fuertes played soccer and knows more than I do.
But the guy (for Pep) is a forward.
He is one step ahead of many and no one can take away from Guardiola the capabilities he has: he won 31 championships in a decade.
-And in Argentina, who is an "advanced" coach, like Guardiola?
- (Marcelo) Gallardo is the best.
It is one step above the rest.
Later, I like Eduardo Domínguez and (Javier) Sanguinetti, who has a great future.
There is a group of young coaches who have been pushing and another who are not so young (Zielinski, Falcioni, Russo) who continue to fight, with good and bad.
-Is English football the best in the world at the moment?
-He's head to head with German football.
I really like the Bundesliga even though it is monopolized by only one team (Bayern Munich).
-From your gaze, were you surprised by the departure of Carlos Tevez de Boca?
-I would like to have a coaching conversation with him to understand why he made that decision, not why.
Or what led him to do that.
I lived through many situations with Tevez and he was very generous with me.
When he went to Corinthians, he and his manager hired me to make a documentary that premiered in Brazil.
I knew the B side of Tevez
.
He opened the doors of his house to me.
Although I haven't talked to him in a long time.
But I think the death of his father (Segundo) hit him very hard, with whom he had a very special relationship and was a bit of Carlitos' driving force.
And being in a place to have a bad time and suffer is not advisable for anyone.
Look also
Christian Martin, the Argentine journalist who triumphs in England and blames PAMI for the death of his parents
The tense cross between Germán Paoloski and Christian Martin: "Let's not take it out on the air anymore"