Andrés Ciro Martínez It is synonymous with football. Not only because of his fanaticism for the sport, but because he composed one of the best rock songs in honor of Diego Armando Maradona. ‘Maradó’ was one of the great hits they composed The Lice in 1996, in the remembered album called 3rd arc. But it is not the only thing with which this 56-year-old artist can ingratiate himself, since The Argentine National Anthem performed only with the harmonica also caused a sensationespecially in the last World Cup that the National Team won in Qatar 2022. This impact allowed him to meet another of the best players in the history of the country: Lionel Andres Messi.
The renowned singer and composer participated in “Líbero vs”, the former leader of Los Piojos He referred to his meetings with the two world football stars and he referred to his meetings with the two great exponents of Argentine soccer. He also talked about how he became involved with the Argentine national team and the pride it generated see a country united behind the conquest in the last World Cup.
“I know Aimar (Lionel Scaloni’s field assistant) and I wrote to him congratulating him and telling him my opinion. That they achieved something that we had already assumed: Argentina is a country of individualists that we cannot do anything as a team, that we cannot unite. It was a radical change from that.. We left that thing of ‘it’s magic’ or ‘God is Argentine’. No no. It’s here and it’s as a team“, he expressed in the preview of the interview that will be known this Wednesday on the screen of TyC Sports.
In dialogue with Matías Pelliccioni, Ciro said that he will be traveling to the United States at the invitation of the AFA to sing the Argentine National Anthem. “I’m going to play the anthem and in the process I’m going to shut down those who criticized me because I touched it before the game against Arabia (it was a defeat in the debut at the World Cup in Qatar). I mean, I always played it and I played it later and we came out champions. We’re going to be in Atlanta, then we’re going to Los Angeles, New York and Miami.”
Regarding what it meant to meet Lionel Messi, he highlighted that he was struck by the humility of the Argentine captain. And he revealed a funny anecdote about La Pulga with his son: “’What’s your name?’ Leo says. ‘Alejandro Ciro Martínez’, he answered as the boys say. ‘Which team are you a fan of?’… ‘Boca and Barcelona. What’s your name,’ Ale tells him. ‘Lionel Messi’. ‘Ah, like the one on the play’. They walk a few steps, I take a photo of him and Leo asks him: ‘And what painting are you from?’. ‘I already told you!’, as if to say I’m not here to waste time, hehe. I was struck by (Messi’s) simplicity and good vibes. It seems to me that there was a change in him, that enjoy more now, his present, the games, his personality. He opened up in a different way, before it was like he was carrying a terrible weight of being who he is.”
The leader of Los Piojos also remembered Diego Maradonathe special song he dedicated to her, how he met Pelusa and the historic meeting with Diez on stage. “It’s the most rocking song for Diego. He told me, ‘what do you want’. And I told him, ‘Nothing, Diego, what am I going to ask you?’ And my friend tells him to come to the next show. He gave me three telephone numbers that he had and I waited days to call him as if he were the girl that you loved and that you are waiting for… counting the hours.”
And he provided more details of the day that Diego was the historic national rock band. “I had said that we should play Maradó when Diego arrives and I think he arrived right on the tenth song. When I left I told him, ‘if you want, sing, do whatever you want.’ ‘Calm down, teacher, you sing,’ she said. We finished playing and he He came out to say hello, which was the most intense and longest ovation I had ever experienced in my life.. Up on stage I saw the energy of the people, who were going crazy. He invited me to the Boca field, which was playing against River. And then at night I went to play at Worksand he came again and there He brought the boots, which were the last ones Diego wore professionally.and he gave them to me.”
About those renowned ankle boots that Ciro Martínez used to hang over the microphone in his shows, he revealed an incredible story. “Every time Maradó played I wore them until I didn’t wear them anymore. In fact I brought some crutches. We are going to play a fifth of Macri, one last game before going to Russia. And I didn’t have boots and Matías Martin (journalist) was there and he gave me some boots that he had to spare. Then we played a couple of times and that’s it With the risk that Maradona’s boots will spoil us, I grabbed and put Matías Martin’s. ‘Wow, Matías Martin once played with those boots,'” the singer joked.
