The elite soccer player and now commentator, Diego Latorre hid nothing to himself in the interview he gave 90+3, the podcast produced by Conmebol. His life, his beginnings in the sport, his transition from tennis to football, his stay in Boca and in Europe and how he conducted his new profession, were some of the topics of a very rich discussion. But the most resounding was the explanation of the phrase that marked his final step at the Ribera club: “Boca is a cabaret“.

Always linked to sports, Latorre began practicing tennis until at the age of 14 he tried himself in the lower parts of Boca. Far from rejoicing, his wish was never to return. It was stolen in the first practice. And the story didn’t end there that day: they took him somewhere else to run and he couldn’t do what he wanted, which was playing ball.

“The first practice was they stole my clothes. I have sports clothes and I usually wear brick dust on my shoes because I play tennis. My world is country and school in La Paternal. I am middle class, not high social class either. I did not belong to the aristocracy, but we had a good economic life within the stability of the neighborhood. Clearly when I arrived in Boca I noticed a change”, He maintained in an interview on the 90+3 podcast, produced by Conmebol.

In the beginning, shrimp She had to grow up with men who did not share the same social status, even if not by chance.

“I have talked to children who have lived in poverty, in humility, in violent families. You understand what the world is. Before that, I settled on a capsule because my parents raised me that way. From school to country, every weekend I played, competed, tennis, soccer, intercountry and talked to kids on my status. I later understood that life was not that, that I had lived in a world that was exclusive, of the few. And that fact is different. I understood football and the situations I experienced, ”he recalled.

For his goals, his game, certainly his gambeta, the times he had to be crowned and in addition to the fact that he came from the famous quarry, Diego has always been a beloved football player in Xeneize. Until the hand changed when he uttered a word that shook the world of Boca.

“I kept 80 percent and answered 20. I was very sanguine, I lived holding myself back. I answered when I exploded. You heard everything everywhere that made you want to go out and clarify. I regret the misunderstanding, but there was a mole within the campus who passed information to the press ”beginning his explanation.

He continued, “That’s the gist of what I said. It’s not Boca as a club is a cabaret. I meant to say whoredom and I said cabaret. It was later given the connotation without comment. Now I understand the business of journalism, taking it out of one context and putting it into another. “

To his left, as he speaks, Latorre has a large replica of the Copa Libertadores. Its failure to lift was one of the great thorns in his career after losing that semifinal against Colo Colo, in 1991, which ended in a scandal.

“I would have touched him, very close. I think they let us down. During these times we will be champions. In that game in Colo-Colo that I obviously choked, like all Boca fans, it was just 1-0 short of La Bombonera. It’s a great Colo-Colo team, it has a great coach (Croatian Mirko Jozic) and experienced players. We had an epidemic of fever and cold on the way out. Three or four players did not play and some played with disabilities ”, he declared.

“I always ask Batistuta for a play that goes along with the goalkeeper and I’m the only one to push it.. He doesn’t give it to me, Colo-Colo’s counterattack and goal. Well, it was a fatality, then he scored a thousand goals. They beat us 3-1 in the most embarrassing game I have ever experienced on the court. I think we should have won that battle, it was an early final. That’s where the champion came from because Colo-Colo easily defeated Olympia ”, he analyzed.

The times are different and Latorre is still too young to catalyze everything he experiences. At the age of 20 he had to emigrate to Italy but nothing happened as expected and it cost more than he thought.

“Europe is an unknown world. In Italy there are the best soccer players and playing there is an honor but also a brutal request that costs me. First, because I didn’t make the preseason. I was caught two months behind. When I arrived, they put my representative in jail, with me Cholo Simeone and Caniggia, and they took him in. Fiorentina did not want to take care of me and sentenced him to tax evasion for the passage of Caniggia and Troglio to Verona. I know what you do do, “he admits.

Now, far from the field of play as an athlete or coach, the former Karera speaks about two lives: the former, that of football, and the new, where he decided to join journalism from the review side and chose to be different. from others in the face of anything.

“It was as if I had two lives. It’s been a long time since I retired… Now I’m in a different activity, which although it’s linked to soccer, I don’t see myself on the field. I looked into the distance. It’s not me and I don’t have the perception that I’m there. I’m a great player, I’ve overcome a lot of hurdles and bias. “

And he concluded: “There is a belief that doing journalism is criticism, debate, shouting, and me I will not fight the journalism industry, I’m not who. I believe that communication is training to have a better society. At least that’s what I suggest and I see that journalism is going the other way. I don’t know if it will stop at some point, hopefully it will and we can change the rules. If this continues, I see no life. I will continue to take care of myself. I will never go beyond that“.