Néstor Ortigoza, who recently retired from professional football with the San Lorenzo shirt, had a spell on PH: We Can Talk this Saturday where he left great anecdotes. The now former footballer made everyone smile with the funny story of when he met his current wife, but he also surprised the rest of the guests by telling the difficult times he had to go through to reach the goal of making his debut in the Primera. de Argentine Juniores.
On the first of these arguments, the former Buenos Aires midfielder, who played the 2010 World Cup in South Africa with the Paraguay shirt, revealed: “I went to a bowling alley to dance and it drove me crazy all night. I paddled it all night. Just in case, I slowly walked over and picked up the girl’s phone, but nothing happened that night.
After that day he invited her to dinner and the young woman accepted. But first, Ortigoza told Andy Kusnetzoff that he had taken some precautions: “If there is a tense atmosphere at the beginning, I told my friend to call me and “take me out”“.
“We go eat and laugh, have fun and suddenly my phone and hers are ringing. None of us attended and I said: ‘we confess, your friend is calling you just in case and he tells me ‘it’s true’“, Said the nicknamed” Orti “in front of the laughter of the former footballer Juan Pablo Sorín, the journalist Majo Martino, the actor Osvaldo Santoro and the last eliminated by Big Brother, Martina Stewart Usher.
To wrap up the story, he concluded: “We both went there, we said we were having fun Today she is my wife, 11 years ago“.
Néstor Ortigoza, his effectiveness in penalties and lightning-fast tournaments
Ortigoza also recalled when at the age of 12 his father, for economic reasons, told him that he could not continue to pay for his trip to train in the Argentinos Juniors youth teams, the club in which he had finally made his debut in 2004 and with which he is became champion in 2010., by the hand of another historical “Bicho” like Claudio Borghi.
“I played for Argentinos Juniors and my old man didn’t show up. He was a very good leather goods manufacturer and worked for a factory. There was a time when work was stopped and I had to keep training. then he told me I couldn’t do the bank and that he had to stop going, or talk to Argentinos Juniors to see if he could give us an allowance, “he said.
And he added: “Since I traveled every day I made friends with all the vendors (street vendors).. One day I approached one and told him that I wanted to work, when I was going to train, because they wouldn’t let me miss school. And she told me to work for him for three months, because not everyone can come in to sell ”.
“I was with that guy for three months and I started paying the daily allowance and then I stayed another four years. He didn’t weigh me down, I enjoyed it ”, he remarked that he was also a player of Nueva Chicago, Emirates Club, Olimpia de Paraguay, Rosario Central and Estudiantes de Río Cuarto.
After that time, Ortigoza he earned his living in penalty blitz tournaments. That formation led him to be almost infallible from the twelve steps. According to his stats, he has converted 58 of the 62 maximum penalties he has executed as a professional. One of these was the most important in the history of San Lorenzo, because it allowed them to obtain the Copa Libertadores for the first time, in 2014.
“Then I played for silver in lightning-fast leagues. They started on Friday at 9pm until 6am. There were 100,150 couples. I cut and kicked, and so did my uncle, to get to first and second place and distribute more money. we lived on it”, Underlined those who said goodbye to professional football only two weeks ago, in the match against Aldosivi for the last date of the Professional League.
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Source: Clarin
