Roberto Martínez told endless anecdotes during his visit to ‘La Fe de Cuto’However, not all the aguadito were funny stories. One of the most serious included a quarrel between the former Universitario player and the experienced coach Sergio Markarian.
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It all happened when Martínez was one of the figures of the Universitario de Markariánin a context in which the soccer player’s mother was fighting against a painful illness.
“The match two dates before, they took the fifth yellow card from me in Lima and Cerro de Pasco was coming. Markarián tells me: “You have made yourself take out the yellow so as not to travel”. I told him no and he makes me travel the same to “accompany the team”, and normal “Martinez began.
“The day before the trip, my mother (who was already suffering from an illness) had a very bad time. So I tell Sergio that my mom was sick and that if she wasn’t going to play, she preferred not to be absent for two days. The Narbarte brothers came and threatened to fine me. I didn’t care and I didn’t travel”he added.
At that moment the conflict began, since Markarián suspected that Martínez was using these arguments to avoid playing in the provinces. Unfortunately, Roberto’s mother passed away while he was with the team in Huánuco.
“Then Huánuco came. The day after the game they call the room where he was, ‘Puma’ (Carranza) answers, it was Gisela. “Your mom is sick, you have to come,” she said. The flight only left at 1:00 pm and Gisela tells me that she has sent me a plane ”he recounted.
“Pum, Dr. Alva, Miguel Silva and I came in the plane. Lego and I see Gisela and her sister dressed in black, that’s when I realized (of the death of her mother)”, he added.
“I did not let him enter the wake”
Martinez’s rancor led him to not allow the Uruguayan strategist to enter his mother’s wake.
“At the wake, when they went, I didn’t let them in, neither Sergio (Markarián) nor the Narbarte. What made me angry is that they doubt me, when it was a subject of my mother. I didn’t see her in her last moments. From there I asked him to play in the middle of the week and I scored a goal”, he expressed.
However, the popular ‘Robert’ did not want the anecdote not to have its share of humor and that is, according to him, the story could have ended in a multiple tragedy, the reason: they let the ‘Puma’ Carranza be the one that transfers them from the airport to the clinic.
“I was so bad, Gisela came with me and her sister didn’t know how to drive, so we made him drive the ‘Puma’. Do you know what it’s like for the ‘Puma’ to drive from the Airport to San Isidro? A worse tragedy could have happened, my compadre is the only one who drives automatic with two feet. And he took us to the mechanic, I don’t know how ”sentenced.
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The day the police thought they were kidnapping his fellow Boys
“One day the police stopped us and we did not understand what had happened. The police thought they had kidnapped me. Firm. It’s a true story. We were going to train with Rivelino Carassa, Barrios, Becerra, Huamán and Huevillo, we were going through El Rímac in ‘Tato’ Pedraglio’s car and the police intervened with two cars and took out machine guns, they got us out of the car and threw us to the ground. And the police told me that they had received information that I was being kidnapped. And Barrios tells Huamán, what avocados you are. Ha ha ha. How abusive they are.”
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