Growing up, the Millionaire star was the star of his school’s handball team. His sponsor recounts his time in this discipline and declassifies various anecdotes.
Barely seven years ago, Pablo Solari, now a major figure in River Plate, cried with frustration at not being able to win the departmental handball final. His school, Malvinas Argentinas No. 23 in his native Arizona, fell into a linajudo establishment. El Pibe was the standard bearer of the team, where he carried the horse and stood out for his speed and conditions for this sport.
“We played against a school in a very big city that had 3,000 or 4,000 students and they were all strong kids, playing basketball and had a different point guard. We had 80 students in total and hopefully had seven or eight to play. And Pablo this time threw himself on the ground crying, when he saw that we were losing. He faced the greats, he was the captain and the benchmark. He was an animal. He ended up crying because he knew we weren’t going to win, but he never gave up. This is the memory I have of the last match left before going to Talleres. And I think he shows the same in football, he always wants more,” he recalled. Federico Villa, his godfather and teacher.
Pibe himself recalled in an interview given in September last year to Jock his time in this discipline. “I like handball a lot. I played a lot when I was in my city, because my godfather was a handball teacher and he played for the school. I haven’t played for a long time, but I am a lot, ”he said of this unknown past.
His coach and sponsor points out that football has helped the striker a lot to stand out in this discipline. “As a child, I already played in lower divisions of football, and on Saturdays and Sundays I played for teams in big cities, where he perfected himself as a football player. However, During the week he attended the school where I teach and this physical, technical and tactical work that he did in these clubs in the province of San Luis and La Pampa allowed him to do very well in handball. It was a consequence of his coordination and his work in football,” he maintains.
“The school had a total of 80 students and in its category there would be around eight. He knew he was physically superior; he was the first to score and the first to run, because he understood that he was the one who could do it. In addition, losing bothers him a lot, he is very competitive and always goes forward. He was very fast, with a big stride, like now. Next, the drawbacks were deadly, as he ran from arc to arc. We’re talking about when I was 13, 14.” it is said.
Víctor Solari, striker’s father completes that “he played in high school at the Olympics between schools”, and believes that this discipline has also benefited him in his football career. “It’s (a sport) very dynamic and fast. I think that helped him a lot.” To add.
About him currently, the godfather claims that the moment the striker is experiencing today “is not a coincidence, it is about having worked since he was 14, when he left home “. And confess: “I only met him playing football when he started playing in Colo Colo, because on the weekends he was not playing in Arizona, but in towns 200 or 300 kilometers away. , where the parents made a terrible effort to carry it. And when he was playing in Córdoba, I could never see him in a reserve game or Talleres’ sixth. I knew he was a striker, but I didn’t know it well. All I wanted was for him to succeed.”
The “predictions”
Federico Villa was at two key points in the history of El Pibe: when his story began in Colo Colo and when it ended. “I was supposed to be there the day he flew from Cordoba to Chile, with a stopover in Buenos Aires. We accompanied him to the airport with his parents and I took the photo he has with them and later put it on a shirt which he showed when he scored a goal. The mother was crying because she was leaving, and I said to her, ‘Susana, don’t get in trouble. In six months, he will return. I’ve never been so wrong.” he said between two laughs.
The second episode had quite a few similarities. “In the week when everything started about River, I was in Chile, I went to visit him and I could see the last game (against La Serena), where he scored a goal. I was with him all week. I experienced all of this firsthand. And when it happened, I told her ‘you go to River, it’s very big, you can eat six months of bank’. And again, I couldn’t be more wrong. What’s happening is I was setting him up for tough times because going from the comfort of Colo Colo, where he was a total idol, to a team as big as River, where there might be the possibility that he doesn’t play, could be complicated, because when he doesn’t play he gets angry, because he’s very competitive,” he said.
Today with seven goals and four assists in eight games, Solari is the great revelation of Argentine football and the Cacique is rubbing his hands with a future sale abroad, since at the Monumental they have kept 32% of the footballer’s pass. In reality, River protected him with a clause of $20 million and which increases to $25 million if the company is closed 10 days before the market closes. Trans-Andean passes. If it was executed this way, in the Monumental, they will receive $6.4 million.
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Source: Latercera
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