Gaspar Rosety was born in Madrid, in 1958, but he always felt Asturian, from Gijón. There he grew up, began to work as a journalist and there he planned to grow old: “Walk, read, write and see the sea, that’s what I’ll do,” he said. Yesterday, at dawn, he died in Madrid at the age of 57. He is mourned by friends, his widow Adela, three daughters, radio, which he defined as “rhythm, talent and wisdom” and journalism, “the science of seeking the truth and knowing how to tell it.” He wanted to be a lawyer until the day his father died while interviewing the player Tati Valdés; He inherited the recorder and began to practice following the lessons of his brother Manuel, his renowned teacher.
This Sunday started badly. At dawn my brother Gaspar died. The consequences of a blow to the head from a fall took me away in three days
— Manuel Rosety (@manolorosety) March 6, 2016
Graduated in Journalism from the European University of Madrid, Gaspar exuded passion for his profession and thus he practiced, with a magnificent voice and singular talent, from his first steps at Radio Gijón in 1974, where he learned the trade “doing everything, not just sports.” . He lived the years of learning in the SER of Asturias with his inseparable Pepe Domingo Castaño, and in the Noroeste newsroom, under the direction of Alfonso Calviño, until military service took him to Madrid and he entered the media. capital: La SER and Radio Intercontinental, with Héctor del Mar, first, until in 1982, José María García signed him for Antena 3 Radio. His voice becomes inseparable from Spanish football, whether at night, on weekends or in matches of the Spanish National Team, in World Cups, Euro Cups and European Cups.
Official Master in Sports Law from the University of Lleida, Graduate in Management from FIFA-CIES, university specialist in sports directors from the RFEF and the Camilo José Cela University, and International Master in Sports Management and Law from ISDE, little by little his career moves away from the editorial staff and towards sports management. In 2006, he joined Real Madrid, initially as the club’s Media Director and later as Director of Institutional Relations and Deputy to the Presidency. At the end of the 2008/09 season he left Real Madrid to become Media Director of the Royal Spanish Football Federation. In what he always considered “my second home”, he promoted the creation of the official website, relaunched the Radio Federación project and launched a WebTV. Later he became an advisor to Ángel María Villar. But he did not stop collaborating with the written press nor abandon his legal vocation, as demonstrated by the fact that he served as president of the Madrid Sports Law Association since January 2014.
Although he narrated the goals of the best Sporting, before those of the Quinta del Buitre, those of Cruyff’s Dream Team or those of Mijatovic, Raúl or Zidane for the Champions League of Madrid, none of them made Rosety happier or moved him like that of Iniesta, already in the semi-clandestinity of the RFEF radio, on the night of July 11, 2010: “Long live Spain and long live God!” he bellowed. At his side, of course, Julio Menayo, his inseparable sound technician since they met at Antena-3 Radio in 1982, the friend who, like so many others, will say goodbye to him today in Almudena, at 12:30 p.m.
Cultured type, an inveterate reader, one of those who give away books when they are finished, fun following dinner, very Catholic but not at all evangelistic, observant and intuitive, Rosety lived dedicated to the care of his friends, ignoring the enemies, who, if they had them, came to consequence of his professional honesty. He was very critical of the practice of current journalism —“I don’t like it at all, there is a lack of work and there are plenty of mediocre and cowards… messing with power is always uncomfortable” he was heard saying—, the last sentence of his last article, published in The voice of Galicia last Wednesday ended like this: “Today’s children want to be Messi.” Maybe he didn’t know it or didn’t want to find out, because he was modest, but there was a time when many children, listening to the radio, wanted to be Gaspar Rosety.
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