13 phrases from Desábato: the controversy over Osvaldo’s pasture and his mistake with Burrito Ortega that he wants to amend

Retired as a player since 2018 and then in the role of coach, Leandro Desábato He is a character with a long journey. He was DT of Estudiantes de La Plata until December of last year and while he is still looking for a club in which he can continue his career as a strategist, he analyzed some specific episodes of his time as a footballer, in which due to his strong personality he wove many stories that recalled in an interview with the program Soccer 910 by Radio La Red.

Among them was his controversy with Daniel Osvaldo, when the forward returned to Argentine soccer and played for Boca Juniors. In a duel in the Candy box, also a musician, tired from a series of infractions, took grass and showed it to Chavo Desábato. “Take, donkey, eat grass,” said the rocker. It took a few moments, but that episode in 2015 continued after the game.

“Everything that happens on the court, for me, dies there. Later, Osvaldo said that I had said things to Buenanote (Diego) when I never said anything to him. Honestly, I didn’t like those things, but that’s it, it doesn’t bother me at all because I also told him something. If I like to say things later I have to put up with what comes. But always on the court. Afterwards, everything else starts to be a show and it doesn’t give me any more. I had several episodes on a court and I tried to finish it right there “, Leandro said in the ping-pong section with journalist Damián Iribarren.

Osvaldo said in an interview with Radio América that “If you say ‘murderer’ to a boy who had a tragedy (Buenanote), you are bad milk. And if you say ‘macaco’ (Grafite) to a black player in Brazil, you are racist “. Regarding the controversy with the Brazilian player, Desábato wielded: “Surely I will have told him something, but I have nothing to do with that one.” For this alleged insult to the San Pablo player, Desábato – who at that time was playing in Quilmes – was denounced by Grafite and the São Paulo club, for which he was arrested when the match ended, in April 2005 for the Copa Libertadores.

Chavo also referred to another controversy for a few words towards Ariel ortega, but in this case he acknowledged that he was wrong and that he wants to apologize to the Burrito: I regret not having called was Burrito Ortega. He pays me hard I told him at that moment drunk, but it was not something to take advantage of. It came out, the cameras grabbed me and I do regret it ”.

“I saw him at Alejandro’s (Sabella) wake and the truth was that I was very close to going to talk to him and apologize. But it didn’t give me, I was ashamed. But it’s one of the few things I regret not calling him. It was a moment of fever and he was taken out. I do not consider myself to be an offensive person and less with something serious ”, added on the subject the man identified with the Click, where he debuted and retired.

And although he affirmed that he is not cool, he regretted not having taken a photo with Diego Armando Maradona. “I get goose bumps when they mention it to me. I had the opportunity to meet him and the truth is that I am not a pimp. I played with Messi and I didn’t take a picture with him. I knew Diego and neither did I, but on the day of his death every time I watched TV I was moved, “he confessed.

More phrases from Desábato.

Juan Sebastian Verón: “I have the best memories and I have to be grateful. When I was at the club as a teammate, in the Reserve or when I led the first team, it was not like we were together all day. There are things in which we do not agree and things that I do not like or I did not like the forms, but one thing does not cover the other. He is a person that I appreciate. With that generation it is very difficult for one to fight ”.

Gymnastics. “I would never direct it. No way”.

The most difficult match. “Against Barcelona in the Club World Cup.”

Play incentivized. “Actually the situations I experienced was when the club paid us more than normal to win. It was double or triple a prize, but when you enter the court you forget. There was a game that we were to win in 2010, we tied with Rosario Central and Argentinos lost 1-3 with Independientes and scored 3 goals in ten minutes. Honestly, I don’t believe (in incentives) ”.

Alejandro Sabella. “In my career the most beautiful moments were the year and a half that he was in Estudiantes and when he was in the National Team, when he called me to play friendly matches against Brazil and in the Qualifiers. I learned a lot soccer, humanly, culturally, I really was a wise man”.

Bilardism. “I didn’t have Bilardo, but people like Alejandro Sabella, who was with him, transmitted things about Carlos and one feels identified because I spent a lot of time and that is where I grew up. After the work, the discipline, being obsessive, is something that Carlos marked, but that he did in all the teams where he was ”.

Win or play cute. “To win”.

His coaching staff. “We are going to change it because after the experience we had in Estudiantes, Chapu (Braña) wanted to be a bit isolated, he didn’t know what he wanted, he wanted to leave alone or he didn’t know.”

Back to Students. “I go every day because my son plays there. Now to work, in the short term I say no. The results rule. A tournament was faced where there were no averages, it was not known when it started. When I took over it was before the pandemic that I had Marcos Rojo, Schunke (Jonathan), Mascherano (Javier), Sánchez (Facundo), Nahuel Estévez, “La Gata” Fernández (Gastón), Retegui (Mateo), and for different reasons when we returned from the pandemic there were none. Of which, six, seven were holders with Milito (Gabriel). It was something like this, atypical, something abnormal, and in a new team, post-pandemic, some great players were injuring me and we were not given the results. It hurts because it was our home, but no one imagined a pandemic where we were locked up for seven months ”.

Technician who took selfies. “I never saw the photos. Yes, when he went to the freeshop he gave things to journalists and sometimes he did not go to training. Or he didn’t go to training. ” He did not want to say the name and when asked if it was Gustavo Matosas He replied “check it out.”

Soccer times. “I don’t like how little patience there is. In general, in everything, journalists, the media, if he wins one day ‘he is the best’, if he loses ‘he is the worst’. Before I liked to watch a lot because they debated and talked about the system and today a scandal is much more sought after, ‘if it came out’, ‘it didn’t come out’. It’s a bit tiring and honestly it tires me. We are in the middle and we know how to live together, but that intolerance that we have, in every sense, not only in football ”.

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