Joaquín 'El rookie', the footballer knows how to listen but Dabiz Muñoz almost ruined the format

A good interviewer knows how to listen.

And there are fewer and fewer of those, because with so much noise we have forgotten how to listen to the other.

Tonight I discovered to my surprise that Joaquín Sánchez (Betis midfielder, with 600 games played) knows how to listen, and he does it better than many presenters.

the premiere of

on Antena 3 promised, because Joaquín is a character beyond the field.

One that goes down well, I mean.

What he projects has nothing to do with the image given by soccer players like Ramos, Piqué, or Casillas [its premiere this Wednesday swept the audience, with a 29.5% share of the screen].

But the first program has not had a

to match.

Dabiz Muñoz almost loaded the format on the day of the premiere.

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The premise of

is very attractive: Joaquín is old enough to dedicate himself to the ball and is looking for another job, so in each program he is paired with a celebrity so that he can teach him other things.

The premiere has been with the kitchen.

And his partner, considered the best chef in the world, who has everything he has as a good cook as unbearable.

The first half of the show is an interview, and the second half is learning the trade.

As if

(with this it has in common the address of Javier Ruiz) joined with

.

The good (or the bad) is that Joaquín Sánchez does not seem to have a desire for notoriety.

For 43 minutes he has basically sat listening to how Dabiz Muñoz leaves Cristina Pedroche dull and functionally illiterate.

I don't know if Pedroche is as short as Dabiz paints her, but she deserves, I think, better treatment from her husband.

Maybe I'm wrong and the whole show is a device for us to hate our star chef.

I do not know.

Joaquín (left) and Dabiz Muñoz, at a moment in 'El novato'. Atresmedia

In the flowerbed full of flowers that the chef throws at himself, Joaquín does not put a but.

He listens, follows the conversation, and occasionally cracks a joke.

He is the perfect interviewer, even when he jokes about the possibility of Diverxo taking a star and Dabiz Muñoz, with a hieratic smile, replies that he “would have put them in the freezer”.

Exactly halfway through the program comes what we all wanted to see: Joaquín cooking.

Apparently he has never fried an egg.

"I've seen a lot of people fry an egg for the first time," Muñoz says.

The viewer wonders how many houses this man has sneaked into to see such a spectacle more than once.

Once the egg is fried, Joaquín sits down with the Diverxo team, and each one has, like the

, a golden minute to say something significant.

"Some kick has given me," says the head chef referring to Dabiz.

And two daggers come out of the boss's eyes like the ones in Bruguera's comics.

And then Joaquín, who was absent from listening so much, puts the anecdote about the egg on the table.

The one that was left halfway out when he was a child, the one that his mother made sprout by putting the child to sunbathe on the terrace.

Finally Joaquin!

And then Dabiz gives the soccer player instructions to make some lentils —and we all sign up at home— and they serve them to… surprise!

His wife and his daughters while he plays, among all the soundtracks he had to choose from,

's .

The climax of the program, for some reason that escapes me, is an advertisement for Casa Tarradellas.

Look… the idea of

was a good one.

But that in the next program, with Rosario Flores, there is a little more joy, that this has been like when you go to a party and the intense group takes to reciting their own poems.

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