Bogotá, April 13 (EFE) .- The coach Francisco Maturana regretted today the death of the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, who stressed both “irreverence” as how to count different things, and revealed that Colombia used to travel incognito in search of stories and legends whose stories he wrote in a small notebook.
“He was kept in Colombian peoples legends listening, writing, not a computer, but a cartillita. She sat, drank some coffee, listening to old and left. He was nourished by all that popular culture, and one that seemed lie “, today unveiled the extécnico Atletico Madrid and Real Valladolid in a telephone interview with Efe.
Maturana met Galeano in years 90 in Quito and since then he felt like a “friend”.
“You never think that friends are going to go, especially those with whom one owes a debt of gratitude because one feels that they did better, “said the coach of the Colombian national team in World Italia’90 and the United Unidos’94.
” It was a wonderful, wonderful, very shy, very difficult to be understood because there was so open, “said exseleccionador of Costa Rica, Peru, and Trinidad and Tobago, who currently serves on the Technical Committee of FIFA.
” But when I had the chance to find in your road who could be your friend, it opened and gave everything for that friend, that had the potential to be better, “he said.
Maturana acknowledged that when he talked football with the author of” The Open Veins Latin America “and” Soccer in Sun and Shadow “appeared a couple of fans.
” Football talked little, but we put them in the same position of fans, but I think I was the most He favored with these talks because he told me about his life, “he said.
He recalled that in 1997, his final year as coach of Ecuador, Galeano told journalists his admiration for the work of Colombian and he even dio ‘forgiveness’ by Uruguay 4-0 in Quito conceded in a World Cup qualifier.
“I like what it does, how it does the way, I feel identified with his style of football and with which he dreams. So I forgive the 4-0 appalling that we dealt here for the playoffs. It seems excusable for being such a wonderful guy, “he said on that occasion the writer.
Maturana also evoked the Uruguayan writer as a man” romantic “obsessed reality show to others.
“Of those who wanted to open some eyes to show all the things that were happening. Eduardo will hit one a ‘slap’ for one’s look, “he said
- Francisco Maturana
- Eduardo Galeano
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