After his retirement from professional soccer practice at the end of 2019, Ezequiel Lavezzi surprised with his new facet at the age of 37. The former soccer player who was last in China’s Hebei Fortune, will venture as interviewer of other soccer legends.
Connoisseur like few of the intimacy of the Argentine team, Pocho began his cycle of notes with Lionel Messi and Ángel Di María. But they were not the only ones, since as a member of the Conmebol Development area, he interviewed players summoned to the Qatar 2022 World Cup and belonging to the other three member federations that managed to get the ticket to the event (Brazil, Ecuador and Uruguay). .
That is why together with the driver Cecilio Flematti, Lavezzi also visited the Brazilians Neymar and Marquinhos from PSGthe Uruguayans Federico Valverde (Real Madrid) y Josema Gimenez (Atletico de Madrid) and the Ecuadorians Gonzalo Silver (Real Valladolid) y Jackson Porozo (Troyes from Ligue 1 in France), all players who will be present at the World Cup.
In a preview to which Infobae had access, Lavezzi cannot contain his laughter when in an interview with Lionel Messi they ask him if they have anecdotes that cannot be told. “What do I know, I think there are always things that cannot be told. Can you tell everything?retorted Pocho to his new partner, the journalist Flematti.
“Sacred Game” is called the content created by the Development area of the South American Football Confederation.
“From Conmebol we aim to listen and see the best players who will represent us with their teams during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Pocho Lavezzi will be the conductor of the conversations with the stars of the 4 countries”, he announced. Nery Pumpido, Deputy Secretary General for Football and Director of Development of the South American entity based in Luque (Paraguay), a position previously held by his compatriot Gonzalo Belloso.
In a long journey, Ezequiel Lavezzi visited Lionel Messi and Ángel Di María in Miamiwhere the team led by Lionel Scaloni was on the last World Cup preparation tour that ended with victories against Honduras and Jamaica.
Pocho’s former teammates in the National Team were pleasantly surprised and even joked about his effectiveness in his new role as interviewer. Di María and Lavezzi recalled their childhoods in the proterosboth in Rosarioand the Fideo invited him to play together in Rosario Central. While, with Messi se chicanearon because of the rivalry between Newell’s y Central.
Already in Europe, more precisely in Paris where the popularity of Lavezzi is very great for his brilliant time at PSG, where between the 2012 and 2016 seasons he won twelve titles, talked with Neymar and Marquinhosthe current stars of the French team.
There, Lavezzi played at home and enjoyed an entertaining moment with the Brazilians. With Ney they focused on how he leads his career in the new world of networks socialwhich brought him so much trouble.
The interviews continued in Spain, where there were meetings with Federico Valverde and Josema Giménez in Madrid, where the Uruguayans defend the colors of Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid, respectively.
The note with Valverde had the particularity that in the same His wife, the Argentine journalist Mina Bonino, participatedwho asked him the most spicy questions.
While, in ValladolidLavezzi and Flematti visited the Ecuadorian Gonzalo Plata and in TroyesFrance, completed the crossing with Jackson Porozo.
These interviews will be seen on all Conmebol communication channels starting in mid-October.
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