Within the framework of his state visit to the Republic of Argentina, the president of Chile Gabriel Boric had the luxury of meeting his two idols from the Catholic University: Alberto Acosta and Néstor Gorosito.

Beto himself shared the meeting via his twitter account: “Great soccer talk with a crossed fan, Gabriel Boric, president of Chile”, the words of who, now, the Historic scorer of the trans-Andean club at the international level and the seventh highest scorer at the overall level.

It wasn’t that long ago that Acosta and Gorosito shared a team in Chile, but it was very fruitful. They lifted two titles in just two seasons: the 1994 Inter-American Cup and the 1995 Chile Cup, in addition to the Pre-Libertadores League in the same year. Beto also won the Opening Tournament in 1997 when his strike partner returned to San Lorenzo.

Before starting his third cycle as a Ciclón player, Pipo was selected as Chile’s best soccer player of the year and earned the recognition of all Católica fans. That’s why Boric is so impressed.

When he became president in March, he received the greeting of the current coach of Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata via Twitter and he didn’t take long to return his greeting with great applause: “An honor dear Pipo. Your blow was engraved in fire in my illusions when I was young“.

And this is not the only time he has expressed his passion on social networks. In April 2017, he responded to a tweet from Beto where he greeted San Lorenzo, his club idol, on his birthday: “Beto Acosta is great. Childhood idol. Thank you very much :)”

Also, not only were they the Argentines he showed admiration for, he also did it with Maradona. In a tweet in 2017, he featured Diego’s style at popular warm-ups in Napoli to the rhythm of “Live is life” and didn’t hesitate to put him above Pelé.

Far from promoting the rivalry that has always existed between Argentina and Chile, now fueled by the Copa America finals that La Roja won in 2015 and 2016, he was happy when Messi and Scaloni won the title at the Maracana: “It gives joy to me Argentina, good joy. Congratulations brothers “

In any case, his adoration for Argentina goes beyond what is strictly soccer. He is a music lover and one of his favorite artists is, certainly, an Argentine. “It’s amazing that Indio Solari isn’t known in Chile,” he posted in 2017 and left a video of a song by Los Fundamentalistas del Aire Acondicionado, a band that includes the famous Argentine musician.

We even found Malvinas Islands in the search engine of their social networks. As far back as 2013, when he was only 27 years old and had not yet begun his political career, he responded to a tweet to Jon Benjamin, Britain’s ambassador to Mexico at the time, who spoke about the “Falkland Islands”. “Old Malvinas, Argentine Malvinas,” Boric retorted.