Oscar Moreno He climbs to the collective in González Catán and gets off at Morón station. There begins its tour. Morón-Moreno, Moreno-Once and start again. when he runs out of products, he moves to Constitution, where a wholesaler offers him “better prices” to make a difference in his new stadium; train cars. Before the miter branch brought. Today is local in Sarmiento, where people take when they hear their harangue-alocution of sale, grabs it by the arm, confirms its identity and falls meekly in the song of sirens, as the rival strikers did before the implacable Wall.
The speech is honest, direct: “good afternoon, my name is Oscar Moreno. I was a baton of the bats, the Argentine soccer team for the blind. I won two world Cups and I am also Olympic medalist. All that can be searched on the Internet, in case someone wants to corroborate it. Now I am selling biromes and pencils. Four per thousand pesos, four per thousand pesos, ”repeats the former footballer, and his word takes effect. Buyers multiply, although contact is hardly reduced to a mere commercial exchange. There is always a word of breath, a brief dialogue. Also the incredulous owner of a cell phone that inoculates it in the networks and makes viral; pushes it to one, two, ten notes telling its present.
“I always thought that the Biromes were more for the start of classes, but in the end they always sell. People need to have one on top. I decided to sell out of necessity. Gold medals don’t feed you. I have a sales instructor course and I said: ‘I’m going to work’”, Says the 52 -year -old wall, the genesis of his excursions on the tracks.
His career in football for blind was upholstered with glory. Together with discipline stars such as Silvio Velo and Diego Cerega, the former player of River Plate won The World Cups in 2002 and 2006, the Copa América 2005 and the silver medal at the 2004 Paralympic Games. The climax with the ball, as evoked, came in 2006 “in the final against Brazil as premises. In one arm I had the trophy and in the other to my daughter Karen, who is 23 years old today.”
At present, the booties are saved together to memories; They leave in some occasional chopped. Perceive the equivalent of two minimal retirements by the Paralympic Medal. And he has seven children; Four of them still small. Enough reasons to decide to go outside. “I don’t complain. I am grateful to God for everything I have. I cost me the first car, but I made a speech and the rest is being given day by day”, Naturalize its fluidity when it comes to the potential buyers.
“Eye, they do not buy me for what I say or because it is me, it is relative. Sometimes I pass through a formation and I do not sell anything and in the next they take out the biromes out of my hands,” analyzes the oscillations of the market in which it develops. In addition to money to complete family income, the wall harvests stories, anecdotes.
“There comes one and tells you ‘how good what you are doing.’ Another asks you what can help you. There was a man who asked me for an autograph for the Nietitus because he was a collector. That makes you feel good,” he lists. But there was a scene during his tours that was worth a world title.
“One day, after my sale speech, a boy asked me for a birome. I extended my hand and said ‘approach’. I was in a wheelchair. “When I knew who you were, I knew I had to talk to you,” he told me. And he told me that he wanted to play adapted basketball. I replied: ‘Why not? We put the limits ourselves. ‘ He gave me a hug and said: ‘You motivated me’. That moved me a lot, “he tells with the tattooed smile.
In recent weeks, which implied barely his routine became novelty. And again his name mutated in news, as in his times of reference of the bats. “I couldn’t believe it, I wasn’t in my plans. I am grateful to all those who approached and interested me. My children see it as normal, they tell me ‘you went out here’ or ‘You appeared there,” describes this second wave of fame.
Meanwhile, the family cooperative for sale was expanding: its son Braian attends a tortilla position in Isidro Casanova, in Marconi and Juan B. Justo. “They have offered me some fixed, formal work, but it was not completed. I would like it,” he reveals. And has projects together with Adrián Almasioanother former staff of the albiceleste selected.
“We want to give talks in companies, in clubs. It is a way of motivating, to tell our experiences; May the people who see, put their glasses and face life from our perspective. Maybe there see that with all the senses the problem that is there is not so serious. I have several proposals, I dream of being able to take them to the president one day, ”he sells with magnetism, as if he were in the Sarmiento car; another day in the office for the Moreno Wall.
