The former soccer player of the Argentine National Team Ariel Garcé spoke about homosexuality, a topic that continues to be taboo in men’s soccerand in this context he reflected and compared what happened in another era with what happens today.
“It is not allowed. It has happened in some parts of the world, luckily today much more, that they speak. Before you said it and if they deleted you for that, nobody found out”he assured in radio statements.
Following the same line, the former River explained that it is no coincidence that those who dared to speak publicly have been the great figures: “Almost all those who spoke were cracks in their sports, because if they don’t tell you and on top of that they play badly”.
“Today perhaps there is some support to show yourself as you are and be accepted by everyone”said Garcé, thus drawing a parallel with the present and the past.
Garcé’s confession about the 2010 World Cup in South Africa
Besides, garce He referred to his call to the Argentine National Team to play in the 2010 World Cup. The presence on the list of 23 players who were part of Diego Armando Maradona’s list for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa surprised everyone. Nobody understood the reason for the designation of the then player from Colón de Santa Fe.
He had never been called by the former coach to wear the light blue and white, but on the night of May 6 of that year, just over a month before the World Cup, the story changed: in Neuquén, Argentina (with all the players from the local media) faced Haiti.
“I was not going to go, because I knew that those matches were already over, that they were part of the process to finish. In Cutral Có, on a Wednesday and with the cold weather… So I told my brother that I was not going”, explained the former defender. And he clarified that it was his brother who made him decide: “He told me to go for my dad and my mom, who wanted to see me. Besides, he was going to make more noise saying no to the National Team than going. I didn’t want any more quilombo”he detailed.
In that Selection there were brilliant names like those of Martin Palermo (who also went to the World Cup) and Ariel Ortega, who were in charge of giving the harangue before entering the field. After these words, garce projection: “The Haitians were wearing caps and gloves, they didn’t want to go out. It was cold”.
Faced with this situation, the break occurred: “We were silent for a moment and I started to talk. Something came out of me. I talked about that if at that moment it was the World Cup, the National Team was us. I threw a whole verse that was good”.
And after that night, in which Argentina thrashed 4-0, the former assistant of Eduardo Coudet, in dialogue with La Página Millionaria, confessed that “the teacher called me and told me: Che crazy, don’t get off that Diego is there. I had a pain in the calf. Don’t get off alone, you’re not going to get injured now that Diego is in doubt, he really liked the harangue”. Then, Maradona he made up his mind and ended up wearing it.
Although in the days before traveling it was rumored that Chino could be out due to the injury he mentioned earlier, he recalled: “A whole world was created with which I could return, they studied me in the shrimp. I fell into the room to Diego, who was asleep again, I woke him up and told him, I went in euphoric, I was half desperate, I no longer cared nothing. Look, Diego, he told him all excited. What happened, Chino?, he answered me. Here there is a doubt that I’m not going to go… and he looked at me as if to say, you’re crazy. He told me to stay calm “.
Source: Ambito
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