“Falucho, come”: 23 years later, Julián Weich told his truth about the traumatic moment he experienced in Surprise and 1/2

It was the year 1999 and Julian Weichdriver surprise 1/2one of the most popular programs of the time, which fulfilled the wishes and dreams of people who did not belong to the medium, announced that its production had been deployed shortly before being seen on television.

During that program, which aired on Sunday 12 September and averaged 22.5 on El Trece, Julián told viewers that they would block Avenida 9 de Julio, at the height of the Obelisk, with everything this represents in organizational terms – a fulfill the dream of a man who hasn’t seen his friends for over 30 years.

This is how in the heart of downtown Buenos Aires, and thanks to a valid TV-only super production of the 90s, they greened a section of 9 de Julio Avenue to simulate a soccer field.

And Weich came over there to surprise Falucho, the antagonist protagonist of this unfulfilled television dream.

It was Noemí, Falucho’s wife, who contacted the production of surprise and 1/2 to tell the story of her husband, who on the eve of his 50th birthday had the illusion of finding himself with childhood friends, with whom he had no more contact since adolescence.

The original idea or plan was that Falucho could play picadito with his friends and then had a dinner planned for everyone.

So they called up two teams, Juventud Unida on one side and Acherenza on the other, the Falucho childhood clubs, to create this game that was sold from 8pm, beginning of the cycle, until almost the end of the program, around 10am. pm, when surprise usually happened.

Falucho, meanwhile, would have been held in a hotel bar near the Obelisk, with the excuse of having to wait for a relative of his wife.

“We are cutting the 9 de Julio. We will knock it down any moment. Falucho turns 50. He does not know that he will play football in that place, on the 9 de Julio. He will play with more than 30 friends he does not see more than 20 years ago. He is hidden in a hotel, waiting very close to the Obelisk, “Julián promoted during the cycle, one of the most successful of that decade.

“We will surprise Falucho and they will meet this character,” Weich was also thrilled as the time to surprise this live man, who had prepared them, was approaching. a rare achievement to see on TV.

It is that in the culminating moment when Julián personally confronted Falucho in the hotel lobby where he was waiting, he realized that he was the protagonist of the complicit camera and decided to avoid the driver and run away from the hotel.

Therefore, Julián started chasing Falucho and I also ran half a block down Via Pellegrini to warn him that they were about to make a dream come true. “Falucho, come here. Falucho, stop, stop. I’m Julián, stop,” Weich heard excitedly as he pursued the individual.

“No, I’m going to hell. I don’t want to”the man apologized at that moment.

“Your wife wrote to us, don’t you want to? This is unusual. She’s gone,” Julián managed, incredulous that she had witnessed a unique moment. It is that until that moment no one had dared to refuse the guest during the successful cycle, and less so on live television, with very high ratings peaks.

This is how the production effort to cut July 9, divert all traffic for hours, and a game where everyone but the award-winning was ended up in nothing itself.

After the episode, Weich devoted himself to filling the remaining 15 minutes with air and as a closing shot: “I am sorry that I have prepared something so beautiful and that Falucho cannot appreciate it. I can understand and assume that maybe it is too much emotion “.

Eventually, the story ended a week later. The fact is that the following Sunday, Julián announced Falucho’s presence in the studio.

During those days, several programs had echoed the unfulfilled dream and discussed various rumors about why he didn’t want to go on TV. One of the versions, the most controversial, was that This man had a parallel life with another woman and even trafficked weapons. All unusual speculations, without foundation.

Following various rumors that were rumored about his surprise decision, Falucho himself denied those versions and claimed to have suspected from the start that he would be the victim of a trap or a complicit camera and that he had fled out of shyness and fear of excessive emotions.

On the Sunday when Falucho fled, the match was finally unable to take place near the Obelisk. But although he was not filmed in front of the cameras, the winner met the same at dinner with old football team mates, realizing, in fact, his dream.

Julián Weich’s memory of that surprising episode

Twenty-three years after that televised moment, Julián Weich spoke with Clarione and asked him if he remembered that moment in detail, he assured: “Of course, how can I forget? I remember everything. It was unexpected. Because it happened that someone didn’t react to the dream they were having or was incredulous, but that they escaped had never happened “.

Then, he detailed his feelings about that unfinished moment: “Look It was a bit traumatic, but not violent. I walked slowly to the corner of the hotel and had seen it, but not in person. When I enter, I see that she was moving away from me. This is what is on the air running towards Falucho shouting ‘Come’ “.

“I remember a producer about 2 meters tall told me ‘I’ll bring it to you, no problem’. Alive, I realize that it made no sense that Falucho was in front of the camera if that wasn’t what he wanted. And actually the idea was to have fun, “the driver recalled.

Speaking of the decision made at that moment as a bicycle driver and before the negative effect of not being able to realize the dream, Julián recalled: “I gave the pass to Maby Wells, who was on the ground and We timed the last 15 minutes of the show. “

“It was 1999, at that time there were no networks, no cell phones … His reaction was a bombshell. In addition, in the programs they began to say that Falucho had a double life, that he trafficked weapons. It made me angry that they didn’t believe in Falucho, because when we chose someone to make a dream come true, the production investigated and it was because he deserved it, he had good energy, he was a good person and it also made me mad at the fact. who slander our chosen one. Our dreams were real … “, justified.

“However, the opposite effect occurred. The crazy thing was that they began to believe more in the program and in the dreams. Because someone could assume they were armed, but this was proof that it was all live and His reaction gave the show more credibility than it already had. “he remembered.

Later, Julián confessed that that week he personally went to Falucho’s house to find out what had happened to him: “On Tuesday I went to his house in Quilmes to ask him what happened to him. We went without a camera, or whatever. Not. we invaded it “.

Regarding the meeting he had with Falucho and the explanation he gave him, Julián highlighted: “He told me ‘I always swore that if they gave me that surprise I would go away’. He promised it to himself and fulfilled it. He wasn’t going to allow it, but he had no arguments. It was that “not me” thing. The fact is that he finally came to the next show. “

Finally, Julián said that during the pandemic he received a private message from Falucho: “I recently received a message from him. He gave me something as simple as ‘Hi, I’m Falucho’, he told me he was singing tango and left me a big hello. “

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