Sebastián Piñera died: the day Marcelo Bielsa tried to deny him greetings and his contribution to saving a classic football rival from disappearance

The world was shocked when he found out death in a plane crash of the former Chilean president, Sebastiano Pinera. Like other South American presidents, Piñera was closely linked to footballbut there are two specific events that were remembered after his death: Argentine Day Marcelo Bielsa He tried to deny him the greeting as coach of the Transandina national team and when, a fan of the Catholic University, he agreed to buy the Colo Colo’s largest stock package and thus avoid its disappearance in 2005, being acquired by SA in black and white

How was it? Piñera’s justification was this Seeing the bad situation of Cacique He decided to get involved and this led him to acquire the club’s shares..

However, his brother explained in 2016 in the radio program “Beyond football” who, seeing the fanaticism of the Chilean people for Colo Colo, He recommended that if he wanted to become president he would become a fan of the Register.

sporting success with what he had Colo Colowhere they won six championships from 2006 to 2009moved it to the polls and In 2010 he became president of Chile.

An almost failed handshake

In the same year he received the national team he had just played the World Cup in South Africa and greeted all the members of the team, but when he greeted the coach, Marcelo Bielsa, the Argentine almost took his hand off.

The reason for Bielsa’s anger would have been because I was not satisfied with how the invitation was handled, since according to him there were hidden interests.

In Chile they compared him to Macri

Piñera forged a great friendship with Mauricio Macri when he was president of Boca Juniors. Chilean media also compared him to the then president of Xeneize. The former president of the nation again this Tuesday He fired Piñera via his X account (formerly Twitter).

In 2017 he had to sell his Colo Colo shares because he was accused of having intervened in the elections of the National Professional Football Association. By selling his shares he earned $7 million.