The 32 jerseys he wore, the Copa América won with the Uruguayan national team and the penalty kick he scored in South Africa 2010, put Washington Sebastián “Loco” Abreu in a privileged place in football. However, the former San Lorenzo striker River and Rosario Central, among other teams, he had an unfinished business and I revealed it this Saturday, tearson TV.
“I had a very sacrificed childhood, through my old man. Nothing left. I had a neighbor, Calabria, who had a BMX (bicycle), a skateboard, and he went out there and said to play. I was running and he was on his bike, “he started reporting on the program “PH: We can talk”which is issued by Phone.
The man born in Minas, 120 kilometers from Montevideo, continued to retrace his “difficult childhood”, following the theme raised by the driver, Andy Kusnetzoff: “Once I was told that if I had passed the sixth year, with full marks, they would give away the BMX I always had enough, but last year I arrived with 12. I ran home with my license so they could buy my bike. My old man didn’t know whether to laugh or cry “.
“One day he tells me to go to my house that there was a surprise. When I arrive I see a large package. I thought it was BMX. But I opened it and it was a “Graciela” (bike) they bought me when I was 6. I couldn’t pedal. They painted it all, put colored patches on it and changed the wheels, ”he says he left professional football in mid-2021, at the age of 44.
It was there that he was introduced to the most exciting part of his story, the one he told together with streamer Coscu, urban artist Lit Killah, actress Mirta Busnelli and model Sofía Zámolo: “In that transition from child to teenager I stayed with a great anguish with all that I had to go through afterwards. It’s just that I couldn’t enjoy with my grandparents, who were so passionate about football, about Peñarol, what I had to experience (as a footballer) ”.
“Loco” Abreu: “This guacho is coming”
The former footballer, who emerged from Defensor Sporting de Montevideo and with passes into football in Brazil, Spain, Mexico, Israel and Greece, among other countries besides Argentina, said that his grandparents always trusted on your terms.
“As a boy they always said ‘this guacho is coming’, but me He was from a humble neighborhood and they didn’t come much. And when I had to arrive and do important things, especially with the national team, Not having them is an anguish I have in mindHe acknowledged.
The host asked him what his grandparents would say if they saw him on the Uruguayan team. And there the exatacanth broke: “One would be with his tobacco, he would go to the stadium and the other would be with his radio, with his glass of wine and excited, because they always visualized it as a child.”
“I was able to make it with my grandmothers, when we came out as American champions. They were already half screwed, but it was time. They all came to the Monumentale, with scarves everywhere and everything because it was winter ”, he recalled, about the tournament he won in Argentina in 2011.
Finally he expressed: «That thing about the grandparents has remained with me, having enjoyed everything they have passed on to me. I think they are there and see me. But sometimes you would also like to hear them ”.
The “unforgettable night” with Diego Maradona and Nelson de la Rosa
In another passage of the program, with his characteristic smile on his lips, Abreu recalled an unusual anecdote he lived with Diego Maradona and Nelson de la Rosa, considered the smallest man in the world, in a bowling alley in Buenos Aires.
“Anyone who has had an experience with Diego becomes a unique night. It happened to me in those years at the Sky Ranch, where many people from the entertainment world mingled and gave me the opportunity to get to know Diego. They invite us to go and they did nelson photographic night“, I count.
And he added: “Diego entered and the whole security circle was there. Later they told him that Nelson was there, he was calling him, and Diego was already accelerating ”.
“Nelson was with the lady at a table and when he sees him he says ‘Nelson, I introduced myself, I saw you today’, because he had been with Susana Giménez. He kisses him and throws him up, but it wasn’t like he stayed, he kept walking”, He revised.
Then he completed:The confidence that we had packed it in the best Goycochea style and deposited it on the spot. Nelson was white because he was passing fabrics and you could see he wanted to flutter. “
“After that we obviously shared a good evening with Diego, but we started like that and I thought he would be angry. But everything went well, ”concluded Abreu.
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Source: Clarin
