"That has virtue to strengthen the heart", says the RAE of the word "cordial", but after the "good night, cordial greetings" with which José María García began his sermon of the waves, the heart more than strengthened shrank. García belonged, like Encarna Sánchez, to the radio school of Old Testament anger. He is recovered by a documentary, she will be resurrected by a fiction – he loaded his own, the extraordinary Kings of the night, for not being the hagiography he thinks he deserves. A dangerous move, there are characters that, like the Jumanji board, it is better to leave them underground, there is already enough horror in the world.
It is surprising that so many of his colleagues declare themselves devoted admirers of his ways, but he explains that a type of journalism that confuses opinion with information and uses its media pulpits to settle personal matters thrives. It is equally incomprehensible that people with a full wallet – 12 million euros he earned annually, as he confessed to Milá – and a job that they are supposedly passionate about, overflow with so much bitterness. In that program that thundered the house from the transistor of my father I never perceived journalism, much less sport, only controversies in which it was easy to suspect personal interests and a string of insults, all were suckers and hugging lampposts, curiously received parabienes two of the most sinister figures of Spanish sport: Gil and Villar. Perhaps the priority was not to oversee the powerful, but those who did not surrender to their power.
Supergarcía allows us to verify that his ego is still intact, each sentence could come out of the mouth of the simpar Aída Nizar, the gold standard of narcissism. I wouldn't be surprised if she dismisses the final chapter with a "oh my god, that's how you made me, so different," though I'm sure the big sister would charge her royalties.
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