The arrival of Lionel Messi at Inter Miami changed many things around him.
It changed the sporting life of the club, which won the first title in its history with the Leagues Cup. It changed the institutional life of
Las Garzas
, who suddenly saw their popularity explode in the form of millions of followers on social networks and with international figures. from different fields taking place in the boxes of the
Chase Stadium
to see the best footballer in the world up close.
And Leo's arrival in soccer in the United States
also changed the career and life of Antonella González Rosas,
a journalist who last year played the role of playing field for Apple TV and now hosts the preview of the matches of the pink team, which this Saturday will play the classic against Orlando City.
"It was difficult for me to become aware of everything that happened to me in recent months.
Since his presentation on July 16, my career changed and especially after July 21, when he debuted and when I had the opportunity to interview him,"
he tells
Clarín
, the 35-year-old Venezuelan.
The clear memory of each of those dates, burned into her emotional memory, denotes how important they are and will continue to be for her.
"Apart from all the media exposure that there is now in my career, this is something that makes me believe more in my work. Sometimes you say: 'Could it be that I can do this, can it be that I will get to interview that athlete?' And when you do it, and you make that dream come true, you give yourself that pat of saying
'you did it
'. And that continues to inspire you to achieve dreams and achieve things that maybe you didn't think you could achieve," he reflects.
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Daughter of a Venezuelan mother, from Margarita Island, and a Spanish father (Tenerife), she was born in Caracas on June 20, 1988 and since she was a girl, sports were always very present in her life.
"You can find me wherever there is a ball,"
she defines herself.
Today the future of her career finds her precisely where she always dreamed of being.
"This is a dream come true.
I come from Venezuela and I have had to start from scratch many times," he says and puts the focus there, on those beginnings from scratch.
Stopping and starting again were common denominators in his life.
She studied a Bachelor's degree in Social Communication Sciences with a focus on media and journalism between 2006 and 2011 at the Andrés Bello Catholic University in Caracas and after graduating she traveled to Spain to complete a Master's degree that brought her closer to one of her great goals: breathe the same air as the great stars of the ball.
"I did an internship at Telecinco when Cholo (Simeone) arrived at Atlético de Madrid, then I lived a very nice stage in the restructuring of the club, which went from fighting relegation to being competitive and winning the Europa League. It
was a very nice stage of Spanish football, especially for me who had to cover Aleti,"
he recalls.
Figures like
Radamel Falcao García, Thibaut Courtois, Arda Turán
and
Diego Godín
led a Colchonero team that was beginning to regain respect, the respect it had lost in Europe.
During her stay in Spain, Antonella González covered the day-to-day life of Atlético Madrid.
(Gentlieza Antonella González).
It was a leap onto the big scene for Antonella González Rosas.
However, she decided to return to Venezuela and start over, even knowing that job possibilities were going to be fewer, and she began covering Venezuelan soccer, the South American qualifiers, futsal and volleyball for DirecTV Sports.
"I love my country
," she explains.
She was finding her place in journalism and enjoyed what she did, but there came a time when the socio-economic situation led her to change course again.
She was no longer just the terrifying thing she saw on the news on television, but
she had to live the terror firsthand.
"I lived alone and many times I returned at dawn after a game.
Once, entering the parking lot of my building, they were following me to kidnap me
and I had to get on a sidewalk and turn around. I didn't see armed men, but I did see them. intercepted and I had to flee," he says.
A breaking point.
He had a proposal to go to work at TV Max in Panama, but he refused to accept it.
Until that day.
The love that she felt and still feels for Venezuela led her to delay her decision, but finally she had to make it.
"As a result of that situation, which happened at one in the morning, I decided to pick up the phone and accept the offer to go to Panama.
I loved what I was doing in my country very much, but well...", he describes with great regret. .
And start again.
Antonella González worked on the coverage of Euro 2016 for TV Max in Panama.
(IG: @antosports).
He has fond memories of his time working in Panama, mainly because his role as a correspondent allowed him to travel to France to cover the Euro 2016 that crowned Cristiano Ronaldo's Portuguese team, and also participate in the coverage of the CONCACAF Qualifiers and important events of other sports like the Augusta Masters of golf.
"Panama gave me quality of life and the possibility of continuing to grow,"
he says.
And, on a personal level,
it was there where he met his current partner, the Venezuelan singer Víctor Muñoz.
"It's very curious because in Venezuela we frequented the same places, we had many friends in common and we never met. One day I had to host his concert in Panama, which I don't usually do. We met backstage and
started
talking," account.
Antonella González and her partner, the singer Víctor Muñoz, share a passion for football.
(IG: @antosports).
After six months of dating, already tired of traveling and traveling from Panama to Miami, where he lived, she made the risky decision to move.
Without work and without papers, she started from scratch again.
In the American city he enjoys the best moment of his career and his life.
There she lives with her husband, with whom she has two children, and
with Apple TV she fulfills her dream of closely following the revolution that Messi generates in every step she takes in the United States.