The former “U” footballer today a collector of sports cars and luxury cars

The name Pedro Fernando Massacesi Maybe that doesn’t mean much to today’s football fans, but even more so to those who think the greatest sport in the world started with Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

But football has many more pages and fans of the University of Chile, already more than four decades old, will remember this creative midfielder who arrived in 1990 to replace Carlos Daniel Tapia, another name that would be today by far one of the best players in football. local tournament.

Massagesi came from Independent , where many said he could become Ricardo “Bocha” Bochini’s successor. He arrived in our country to strengthen the secular team when “Chino” Tapia, former midfielder of Boca Juniors, said goodbye, in quite complex years for the Blues, since they were returning from their season in hell, where they competed for promotion.

The one who was born in the town of Ceres, in the north of the province of Santa Fe, was a demanding, fast, striking and charismatic midfielder. His stay in Chile was short and with some moments to forget, like his expulsion during the classic against Colo Colo, but he left pleasant memories to the university fans, who know that today they are light years away to have players of this level.

But why are we talking on MT La Tercera about a former player who had a brief stint in the second most important team in the country?

It turns out that in Argentinian media like The nation And Infobae Articles have appeared related to his present, where he is a collector of sports and luxury cars, something very unusual for footballers of the 90s, who did not dazzle in the big world teams where they received large sums silver.

Pedro Massacessi is one of these exceptional cases who managed to save enough and had the investment capacity which allows him to live in Orlando with his wife Eleonora and his children, where he works in real estate and benefits from a garage dreamed of by many “crazy” fans .

Precisely in La Nación, we ask him about his passion for automobiles, which started with a Fiat 147 and today he shares it with Ferrari, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, Tesla, Range Rover, Lamborghini…

“I have always loved cars, since I was little, we always watched the races… I have always loved races, and at 57 years old and according to the study, the economy that I have, and projected into the future I can have fun. Anything can happen, you know what this life is like, today – I don’t know – a pandemic grabs you, something of that grabs you and you turn around, but in this country is a bit difficult… It’s a very stable world. country, here you don’t know. He wins a lot, but he always wins constantly. In Argentina, you win a lot in two years and you lose some four second, the economy is very irregular in comparison. Here you buy a property, you can have 10% monthly profit, or you can have 9 or 11, it varies there. In Argentina, you can make a profit of 70% and the following year, a loss of 30%, that is to say that everything is much more stable, and according to this study that we did there with my children and my wife… I could afford to be able to enjoy it in cars. The truth is that I love them, they are beautiful and I can enjoy them. I don’t use them much here in Orlando… It’s not like Miami, which is a little nicer. You have a little more outlet, more glamor, but I appreciate it a lot, they fill me up a lot, and apart from that, it’s an investment, it’s an asset,” Massacessi said in the interview.

Regarding certain models, the former Independiente-trained midfielder, now 57 years old, noted in the note: “I ordered the Ferrari in blue, I love this color; It’s the SF 90, the hybrid, it has 1000 horsepower. The black Lamborghini Huracán dates from 2020, it is equipped with a 5.2-liter naturally aspirated V10 engine with 610 hp associated with a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission. The red Ferrari, the F8 Spider, with folding roof, can go from 0 to 100 km/h in 2.9 seconds and reach a speed of 330 km/h.

On the Infobae website, Massacessi told a few other anecdotes, such as when he bought a Porsche 911.

“The Porsche is the only car I didn’t have to wait for. I saw him last year. It was at the dealership, I went to look at it and I wanted to keep it,” he said.

But on the information portal they emphasized that it all started before. According to Infobae, in April 2020, when he went to the official Ferrari dealership to order an F8 Spider, the car he dreamed of, he discovered that he was more than two years late.

“I bought it because it’s the last model that Ferrari will produce with an internal combustion engine, since hybrids will come later. That’s why it has so many requests, especially from collectors,” the former footballer told Argentine media, adding that “the Ferrari arrived to me in November 2022, and the ceremony they give you when you receive it is as wonderful as the car itself. They give you all kinds of gifts, they uncover your car with a red blanket and they uncork you a champagne.

He also has some Lamborghini stories, in fact he placed an order for a Lamborghini Huracan EVO when he learned the Ferrari F8 would take a while to arrive. “These types of cars (Lamborghini) allow you to customize them, so you give them a preview and tell them what color you want it. They give you ten body colors, ten upholstery colors, anything you want to change, you can’t make it “crazy” because they don’t allow it, but you can put it however you want. What surprises me most about the Lamborghini is that it has three driving modes. It starts in Sport, and when you put it in Corsa, it’s impressive. When it reaches 4,000 revolutions, the explosion it produces is tremendous. The big difference I see with the Ferrari is that this one is more aggressive,” he told Infobae.

As you can see, a gift of powerful engines and extreme emotions, surely like in his best days in Avellaneda or at the National Stadium itself.