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The director Daniel Sánchez Arévalo photographed at the Netflix headquarters in Madrid, last September.Claudio Álvarez
Daniel Sánchez Arévalo (Madrid, 48 years old), film director and screenwriter (
Cousins
,
Azuloscurocasinegro
,
Diecisiete,
Las de la última fila
...) and finalist for the Planeta award in 2015 with
La isla de Alice
, confesses that he came to seek coverage in the middle of the jungle to check the score of a game.
Soccer appears in many of his films and in 2019 he shot, for one of the sponsors of the Champions League, two documentary stories about soccer's ability to break down borders.
Ask.
What are your favorite teams this World Cup?
Response.
Spain and France
P.
Bring out the coach that we all have inside.
Who do you miss?
R.
To my paisanuco Canales [Arévalo was born in Madrid, but he has always considered himself a Cantabrian because all his paternal family is from Santander].
Q.
Have you ever asked for an autograph?
R.
Once I had Paul Auster sitting next to me in a cinema and I was unable to ask him.
I am too ashamed.
Q.
Who would you have liked to have had it from?
R.
From Paul Auster.
Q.
Messi or Maradona?
A.
Messi.
Q.
Three things you know about Qatar.
R.
The World Cup should not have been played there, the World Cup should not have been played there, and the World Cup should not have been played there.
P.
Last time you scored a goal.
R.
I have an almost three-year-old daughter who sneaks goals through the squad several times a day.
And I delighted.
Q.
An own goal, something you regret.
R.
Being a little
tied up
before life.
He should play more attacking.
Q.
And a goal in 1990: your great stroke of luck.
R.
I studied business and, in the last year of my degree, I was so bored in class that I started writing short stories, short stories... That boredom gave me a job: telling stories.
Q.
What was your first game on the field?
Who took him or who did he take?
A.
It was at the Bernabéu, with my father.
And sneaking
Several of us entered with the same card.
You entered, went up to the top floor and threw it into the street.
And so in a loop.
Q.
What is the best game you have seen?
R.
The final of the World Cup in Spain.
This time I went to the Bernabéu without sneaking in.
Q.
Have you ever shunned any commitment because of soccer?
R.
During the World Cup in South Africa we were filming
Cousins
in Comillas (Cantabria) and the filming plan was made and adapted depending on the national team matches.
The first is the first.
Q.
The rarest place or circumstances in which you have consulted the score of a football match.
R.
_
This same year, shooting an advertisement in the jungle of the Dominican Republic, trying to find coverage to find out about Madrid's comeback against Chelsea in the second leg of the Champions League quarterfinals.
Father
Vicente del Bosque-Luis Enrique.
1, X, 2?
A.
One.
Q.
Any superstitions before going out into the field?
Rituals for big occasions?
R.
WhatsApp direct line with my assistant director, Javi Sánchez.
His optimism intoxicates me.
Score the goals before Real Madrid takes the field.
Q.
He gets caught offside...
R.
That after two years of so much suffering we have not learned anything and, above all, that Public Health is not something sacred.
Q.
I would wave to…
R.
Nadal, Gasol, Rahm, Carolina Marín and all the Spanish athletes who exude talent, determination, shake complexes and make us hum “yes we can”.
They are very inspiring.
P.
Ask the referee for the time when…
R.
When I look at the shitty world that we are leaving to our children and our inability to stop the deterioration of the planet.
P.
Three moments that you remember from the World Cups.
R.
Although it is not a World Cup, the 12-1 to Malta.
Butragueño's four goals in the Denmark-Spain match in Mexico '86 and, of course, Iniesta's goal of a lifetime.
Q.
Complete the sentence: "If there were no football...
A.
We would find another hard sports drug.
Watch out for
Curling,
who is waiting for his big moment.
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