Marcelo Tinelli reappeared publicly in an interview with the American Business Forum held in Uruguay. An intervention in which, among other topics, was consulted for his role as president of San Lorenzo, from which he officially resigned on May 30 this year.

“I wanted to save my club, San Lorenzo, which was about to collapse and had never won a Copa Libertadores. These were my two goals. And one day bring the Cup to the Pope who could take it with him: he has it there. on the shirt and the Libertadores “he commented recalling his arrival as a leader in 2012, after the resignation of Carlo Abdo.

However, throughout his career as a sporting director, he also marked what he felt was a sort of breaking point: the elections for the president of the Argentine Football Association in 2015. “Everything that has happened since then, 38 to 38 out of 75 in the AFA, are things that have not gone well and I have not felt comfortable in many circumstances”revealed.

“You are realizing it while you are living it. And you feel that you are going there, damaging your own club, that you wanted to help at that moment. But the television code has nothing to do with that of sports politics.” she compared Tinelli. “Mauricio Macri once said that sports policy was more difficult than national politics and I have no doubts.”

However, Tinelli He went further and explained how he dealt with that “risk” of losing the prestige he had earned as a man of television listening to immerse himself in a crack-prone environment.

“It wasn’t something premeditated. I love to do television, I love to communicate, I love to have fun, I love to have fun. I am a person who always bets positively. I was already there and I did. For the passion of helping my club. If you told me today, going back, I wouldn’t do it again: I love what I’m doing, “he said, insinuating that at this moment he would no longer enter football.

The obsession of the Libertadores, the conversation with Pizzi and the fanaticism of his son Francisco

Tinelli He has repeatedly stressed that one of the things that led him to commit to San Lorenzo, in addition to saving himself from relegation in 2012, was the victory of the Copa Libertadores. And revealed how that obsession came about.

“When we were little we used to come by train to see San Lorenzo every 15 days, from Bolívar to Constitución station and from there to the camp. And my father always told me Saint Lawrence he has never won the Copa Libertadores. And I asked him if it was important and he said yes. And that the leaders had sold them, because we had to play against Peñarol and we sold the venue and the two games were played in Montevideo. And I have those things left, I said ‘how crazy’. So I kept that in mind. He wanted to be a coach and once he was saved from relegation he wanted the Copa Libertadores”He recalled.

In that line, Tinelli He said that after becoming champion of the initial 2013 tournament, he had an intimate conversation with Juan Antonio Pizzi, the then leader of Saint Lawrence. “We won and we went to celebrate. I told him: ‘Juan, now let’s go to the Libertadores’. And he says to me: ‘No, it doesn’t matter, the most important thing is the local tournament.’ moment I hit my son from below and said, ‘Look what he tells me.’ I insisted and he repeated that he had to be calm, “she recalled.

However, he later pointed this out “Pizzi ended up going to Valencia and I went to look for Patón Bauza. And that year we ended up winning the Libertadores”.

Although long before that Barça glory, Tinelli also revealed a private round trip trip with his son Francisco in 2006. “One day Francisco came and said to me: ‘Everyone spends me: I don’t want to be from San anymore. Lorenzo ‘, that’ he has nothing ‘… We came after losing 1-7 with Boca. So I asked him:’ It’s true, today he has nothing, but you don’t know what he will have ‘”. he started.

“There I ran to talk to Rafael Savino: I told him he had to put together a team … And why he didn’t become Boca. It worked: he’s a San Lorenzo fan”, concluded Tinelli.