In full dialogue with Patricio Oñate, of the Thirteenth Channel, the Matador was wet by his teammates. “There’s Zamorano and Estay,” the La Roja striker said during the last planetary test of the last century, looking annoyed by the situation.
Twenty-five years after Chile’s participation in the 1998 World Cup in France, the anecdotes and situations experienced by the team continue to appear. A few weeks ago, Ricardo Abumohor revealed that Marcelo Salas did not want to exchange his jersey with Roberto Baggio at first. A demonstration of the character of the shooter, who also did not like jokes.
A few days after the draw against Italy and then against Austria, the one trained at the University of Chile offered an interview to Channel 13. In the middle of the dialogue, the gunner who was close to signing for Lazio was thrown into the water. Immediately, the conversation was interrupted. “Already po’Goofs, get angry, we are working,” said Patricio Oñate, the notero who was with Salas.
Then he unsuccessfully tried to continue the conversation, but now it was the former abuser who asked to stop. “Stop, you can cut a little. Why not you you say stop, that I don’t do anything to him?” interrupted the Matador. “It comes from above, there is Zamorano and Estay”, explained the former striker while giving, with visible annoyance. to the companions who threw the liquid at him.
In the television interview, the Reds’ maximum gunner in the last planetary rendezvous of the last century also showed what his attitude on the pitch was like. Just before the situation with the glass of water happened, Marcelo Salas said that he ruled out playing with less intensity against Cameroon, despite the fact that a yellow card could deprive him of the duel against Brazil, for the quarter-finals. of the maximum tournament. “We’re not thinking about not putting our leg down due to possible suspension, we’ll just go play, and if that happens, well,” he said.
Beyond the joke he played Zamorano both indicated that their relationship was good. They were the emblems of the generation that went to the World Cup in France, and although they were not close, we saw them sharing events until today. “With Iván we didn’t get on badly, we just didn’t share beyond training. Until today we have a very good relationship, but my group was (Sebastián) Rozental, (Esteban) Valencia, the youngest” said in 2020 in the middle Catenaccio Sports.
For its part, he former Inter Milan and Real Madrid also had good words for their former teammate. “We were two players who understood the goal very closely, we knew each other perfectly on the pitch, he knew where I was going to be, where he was going to be. it was a perfect complementarity, we knew each other by heart, ”he confided some time ago in an Instagram broadcast.
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