By Gura Garcia
21 Aug 2024, 09:17 AM EDT
The living legend of Argentine football, Juan Román Riquelmewho is also the president and idol of Boca Juniors, was the protagonist of a rather unusual and peculiar scene that immediately went viral on social media.
The former player of FC Barcelona and Villarreal in Spainwas angry with an ESPN journalist for a question that the latter asked the former player of the Argentine national team, in the middle of an interview and that visibly upset, got up from the table and abandoned the cell phone with which he was live and direct with the ESPN F90 program, leaving everyone present in the studio speechless and open-mouthed.
What made the Xeneize leader explode?
While praising the gesture that his board of directors had made After letting players like Cristian Medina, Ezequiel Fernández and Kevin Zenón go to the 2024 Paris Olympics, saying that it was “a very big risk,” Román did not miss the opportunity to send a message against the media and journalists who did not value this decision in favor of the Argentine national team: “I have never heard on TV anyone say ‘how good Boca is for letting the kids go to represent the Argentine National Team.’”
Pick and shovel in the middle of a live interview
And it was at that precise moment when the journalist Diego Fucks He responded ironically with a sharp comment, interrupting Riquelme’s speech: “Turn on the TV then, because it was said here. It was discussed.” Bewildered, the former player intervened and asked him to let him finish speaking, but the journalist doubled down and refused because “you are saying things that are not true.”
“That man speaks badly every time he speaks. I send you a kiss Great, Sebastian (Vignolo), not even my old man challenges me,” replied the president of Boca Juniors, who wasted no time at all and got up from the chair and abandoned the mobile phone, while in the background the journalist could be heard saying that “I am not challenging you, I am simply responding to your lies.” And the story ended at that moment, leaving a rather awkward moment in the studio. Riquelme left and interrupted the note beforehand (it lasted just over 10 minutes).
What Riquelme said about Alan Velasco’s chance to join Boca
Asked about the transfer market and the possibility of When Alan Velasco, for whom Boca Juniors is currently in negotiations with Dallas, a Major League Soccer team, arrived at La Ribera, Riquelme commented the following: “He is a player that we like. We always work hard to get good players. That’s all I can say.”
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