For 20 years, he taught sports journalism at Argentina University of Enterprise Uade. He has published articles in several countries, including Argentina, Colombia, Scotland, United States and England. His latest book, The Greatest Work of Stories, has been published by Niyogi Books and has got extremely positive reviews. And me personally, one of them, yes, I read it, and I absolutely loved it. It was a great read
Hello, Abigan. Thank you very much for the invitation and greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Well, do not worry about merchandise. You can say Barnique or Wernicke or whatever you want, no problem. I have no problem with this is German. The correct pronunciation is Wernicke, but in Argentina everybody call me Barnes or Wernicke, so no problem. And I am very glad to be here today with you. I'm ready for your questions
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@Futbol · 1:31
Additionally, how long did this whole process take writing the book and researching all these stories? Because each chapter is filled with multiple tidbits of stories and all of these stories are something that requires a lot of detail, a lot of research, and I wanted to know your entire process. So let me just sum it up. What was your inspiration speaking about the stories surrounding the World Cup and how long did it take to research it? And how long was the writing process as well?
But the idea was to present every tournament with the most important sport information and then the stories, as you can get in the niche of book edition. I prefer to write about stories with human sense, because the football players are human beings, like you, me, all the people. They have the same problems. They need to eat, to have clothes, to play and to travel, to go to bed, to go to hotels or houses. So they live as human beings
So I think the book is really complete from several sites or point of view because you will find in this book information, sport information, but social, cultural politics also. So I think the book is very funny and very educational also because the readers can confound on this different size of the workouts
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@Futbol · 3:59
And this is about football, because you're talking about something very beautiful, in my opinion, and I personally think it's the greatest thing ever invented. And that basically is that in our quote, it says, putrefaction does not always contaminate passion, love and nobility, which is talking about how you've used these objectives to determine our love and passion for the sport
This one could be, for example, organized by Qatar, plus, I don't know, the Emirates or Bahrain, for example. Three countries or two countries. Yes, that could be possible. I don't know. Anyway, let me please tell you something about politics. I was watching the last week, a TV series on Netflix about the FIFA and the supposed conspiracy to give the last two World Cups to Russia and Qatar. And I watched something very interesting to me
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@Futbol · 2:11
So these sort of stories gives you goosebumps in terms of what people are willing to do for their country when it comes to playing the sport that is just kicking a ball, but the pride they have in kicking a ball. So what is it that makes this work up special? What are the factors of what makes this whole experience as something every single person is willing to lay down their lives for? I mean, I remember John Terry diving onto the ground to head the ball away, stuff like this
And it offers a mix of passion, entertainment, emotions, a lot of things. So, yes, I think it's a special festival, of course, and we have the most important players in every edition. And also the spirit of the former stars, like the I think Diego Madonna's spirit is flying around Qatar now
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@Futbol · 1:58
An interesting tidbit over here is Messi's Got, a very similar goal against Getafe, which was again, very beautiful to watch, and I think it was ironic that it was second coming. But getting to my question, the work up is considered the greatest sporting event in the world, in my opinion and in the opinion of a lot of people. But I want to know, in your opinion, was this the most controversial moment in the work of history?
Well, I am a big Diego Maradona fan. Last year, I wrote a bulk in San Diego with his former personal physical criminal. And the history is really it's really touchy and very rich, full of anecdotes and situation and know about Diego. But despite this, I have to recognize that the hung of God is one of the most yes, I have to say this. It's one of the most controversial moments in the World Cup history
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@Futbol · 2:10
And when you did bring out conversations on, like, these controversial moments, it puts things, like, into perspective a lot of times. But, yeah, I think, like you pointed out yes. The England goal, I think the England goal in 66 is sort of like the Frank Lampard one, where it's called against Germany in the quarterfinals. I'm not particularly sure with you
All the players are very talent, but just the players who give you emotions are the best. So my eleven maybe is not possible because I put four very skilled players in the midfield. But anyway, I give it my best eleven to you, ubaldofillo argentina goalkeeper, champion in Manuel Amoro. Wonderful, wonderful. Right defender from France in Spain 1982 and Mexico, 1986. Franz Becken Bower and Daniel Pacella. To me the best defender in football history. And on the left, of course
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@Futbol · 2:46
And what they did with football was absolutely beautiful. And even, like when you said, yes, miroslav klose Mirosa close a Germany. Watching him score those goals, germany especially like, being now top score, I think it's a 15 goal is what it stands at. Beautiful. And then, like you pointed out, the original Ronaldo. I know there are a lot of Cristiano fans, but for me, there's only one Ronaldo, and that's the Brazilian Ronaldo. Very difficult
It's wonderful for me specialty because my new book was launched in Japan three weeks ago so in Japan now is a wonderful time to buy football books but I think France and England now are very hard, very tough. They have great players, but they play as a real team, you know, real teams, not in individual team. I mean, they play all together, the eleven players. And I think they could be the finalist
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@Futbol · 2:03
And this whole interview, let's say, was just very eye opening to get perspective as you know, how much you have researched into it. So, please, everybody, enjoy the World Cup. And yeah, that's it