Ubaldo Matildo Fillol
, goalkeeper of the world champion team in Argentina 1978, asked the Government not to close the state news agency
Télam
, where his son Sebastián has worked for years as a journalist.
The curious thing is that Pato is one of the President's idols, who had him as a reference in his youth career and that last January he chose him as "the best goalkeeper in history."
Dressed in a T-shirt of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the former goalkeeper of River and the Argentine National Team, posed with his son Sebastián with a sign to ask the Government not to close the state agency that appeared fenced and with a police presence on Sunday.
"Let's defend Télam, let's defend information,"
says the sign that Fillol holds with his son Sebastián.
"Strength my son and all his colleagues at the Télam Agency," posted the former goalkeeper of the National Team
For his part, his son shared the image with a strong message for the announcement that Milei made in his opening speech to the ordinary sessions in Congress.
"Thank you, old man, for supporting the workers of the Télam Agency in the face of
this unjustified and painful closure
. We ask that we be allowed to go to work to continue reporting with the truth," said Sebastián, a company worker.
In January of this year, in the middle of a meeting with pro-government deputies prior to the creation of commissions to discuss the DNU and the Omnibus Law, Milei surprised by answering a survey in "X" on the sports channel
TNT Sports
.
In the image there were archers from different countries and they asked: "
Which Argentine goalkeeper could not be missing from this image?
"
"UBALDO MATILDO FILLOL, alias EL PATO," the president emphasized, in capital letters.
To which a user asked: "What are you doing here?"
And Milei responded: "I finished a meeting and went to watch the news on X... and I came across this...".
Other Twitter users reminded the President that Fillol during the electoral campaign had expressed himself in favor of Sergio Massa and against his proposals.
Likewise, the president ratified his fanaticism for the goalkeeper who retired from soccer in 1990 and who was the mirror in which Milei himself looked at himself in his years in the youth categories of Chacarita.
Thank you, old @ubaldofillol for supporting the workers of @AgenciaTelam in the face of this unjustified and painful closure.
We ask that we be allowed to go to work to continue reporting with the truth.
#TelamNoSeCierra#TelamSeDefiende @somostelam pic.twitter.com/iQ8NuUb24n
— ✌Seba Sacha Fill☀l✌ (@sebafillol) March 6, 2024
"Do his political opinions detract from the HUGE CAREER that Pato Fillol has had...???," the president asked himself.
In an unprecedented turn for Milei's ideological positions, the President said that even if his idol was a communist he would still be "the best archer in history."
"Even if he told me that he was a communist, he would still be, from my point of view, the best goalkeeper in history...", argued the libertarian.
Alias EL PATO... pic.twitter.com/iNa7bzRQho
— Javier Milei (@JMilei) January 3, 2024
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