Oscar Ruggeri It is one of the symbols in the history of Argentine football. World champion with the National Team and former defender of Boca Juniors, River Plate, San Lorenzo and Real Madrid, among others, he has great anecdotes with figures such as Diego Maradona and he also knew how to create a character on television shows.
In an interview with Migue Granados’ program I dreamed that I was flyinghe pigheaded He showed an unknown side when revealing his musical tastes and even dared to sing one of his favorite songs on air. “I like music, but I’m very bad. I see them sing and I wonder: ‘How do they sing so easily like that?’ How I would like to sing like that, with that ease. “I like Rosalía, María Becerra and I go in the car listening to that”he said while singing a fragment of the song Desperate of the Spanish singer-songwriter.
“In the morning, when I go down the Panamericana at a stop, I move a little and people look at you as if to say this is not right,” he continued and added more favorite artists to his playlist such as Camila Cabello, Luciano Pereyra, Diego Torres, Mick Jagger and Tina Turner. He even related that he met the Rolling Stones singer in a bar in Brazil: “I see that there are movements out there and I see that someone rude is coming. I stay attentive and it was Mick Jagger.”
Another of the memories that Ruggeri recounted in the relaxed note in which Natalie Pérez and Lucas Fridman participated was the time he invited the Argentine players who were in Europe to spend Christmas at his house in Spain. The man born in Corral de Bustos organized the dinner with his wife and invited Diego Maradona, Claudio Caniggia, the Cougar Rodríguez and Nery Pumpido, among others, with their respective families.
What the former soccer player had not realized was that he did not have enough plates, glasses and cutlery for all the guests, so he had to buy disposable tableware. “Everyone began to arrive, Diego with Claudia and the girls, and Caniggia introduced Mariana Nannis for the first time, it was the expectation. “She appeared in a long dress, she thought it was the King of Spain’s party, we looked like surgeons.”began.
The story continued at the Christmas table, with the turkeys that Ruggeri had bought to eat. The problem was that the pigheaded I didn’t have a blade to cut the meat. Until Maradona appeared to save the situation: “He grabbed the turkey by both legs and tore it apart.. Then she would ask: ‘What do you want, duck?’ And he flipped it. Imagine that there were 27 of us at a table, the one who wanted brisket grabbed it with his hand and threw it on the white birthday plate. When Nannis saw that we were throwing away the food, she went to the side and was left outside the party.. Then we started dancing, Diego with the tie on his head, and we passed him by.”
Some time later, Ruggeri and his wife were watching Susana Giménez’s program on television, when they were surprised to see Mariana Nannis as a guest, who told what she experienced at that party. “He killed us and Nancy wanted to call Susana to tell her that it wasn’t like that. Then we carried it at the Nannis rallies.”complete.
In another section of the talk, there was no shortage of mentions of Maradona, with whom the 62-year-old former defender maintained a close friendship from his time at Boca to the National Team. He pigheaded He evoked the status of leader that Diego had to fight for his salaries to be paid in the Xeneize: “He made us win a lot of money on the tour of Japan and Malaysia before leaving for Barcelona. We traveled through it, we learned about the bullet train through it… He charged 60 thousand dollars per game and we charged a thousand. He was tremendously generous, when you were having a hard time she would knock on the door (to the leaders) and how could you say no? Later on the court you would kill yourself for him. That’s what it means to be a leader.”
Finally, Ruggeri said that he does not plan to sell the Argentina jerseys with which he won the 1986 World Cup in Mexico under any circumstances. “The only thing I ask of my children is that they do not sell them. They have offered me everything, up to 100 thousand dollars for a t-shirt, but they are priceless. I have already threatened the twin (by one of his children). At the time we didn’t care about the t-shirts and threw them around. How crazy it all was that when the game with Germany ended, Diego threw his away and then it was auctioned for 9 million dollars. We would throw all the shirts in the middle of the locker room, the other team’s prop man would come with shirts and they would exchange them. In all that pile of clothes was Diego’s,” he concluded.
