Alan Brandi Cuasnicú He is the scorer of the Argentina futsal team in it Uzbekistan World Cup 2024where he waits for the round of 16 matchup against Croatianext Friday. But he could also be a journalist, writer, engineer, translator or any other profession. The thing is that the left-handed center, who was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on November 24, 1987, is above average compared to any footballer, whether on the field or in the courtroom.
With the same ease with which she scored five goals in the same game – against Angola, last Saturday – or defined with a superb backhand inside the area – against Ukraine, in her debut -, Brandi surprises outside the park where she inflates nets with the albiceleste t-shirt. He speaks several languages and is capable of releasing data while walking the streets of Tashkent, the Uzbek capital where the National Team’s bunker is located in this World Cup.
“93 percent of the population of Uzbekistan is Muslim”he states, to which he adds why the majority of the city’s automobile fleet is linked to the same brand (Chevrolet), based on the participation of the State, independent from the Soviet Union in 1991, in the manufacturing of its models. in the country.
But there was one fact that Brandi did not know when she was the figure of Matías Lucuix’s team in the 9-5 victory against Angola. With his five goals he equaled a record that Lionel Messi had won the albiceleste shirt in a friendly against Estonia, after being champion of the Finalissima against Italy in 2022. They had done it before Juan Marvezzy (in 1941) and ‘Charro’ Moreno (1942). It had also happened in a futsal World Cup, in Hong Kong 1992, when the Rosario player Gabriel Valarin he scored a ‘re-poker’ for Nigeria.
“The truth is I didn’t know about the record, but well for me Messi is my idol, he is untouchable. We’re not going to make those comparisons either, I didn’t know that information but it’s a joy to have scored five goals,” he told the official AFA Futsal account.
“He is a 10 with numbers of 9. He is often compared to Cristiano, who is a scorer and for most of his career he lived in the area. Messi catches him in the middle of the field and has goalscorer numbers. And what connected me a lot With him, always being very good, he maintained humility. I admire him as a player and that, being the best for so many years, he has that humility, that behavior, like when he stopped the National Team players who wanted to charge Brazil after winning the Cup. America,” he once compared.
And his story has points in common, beyond his year of birth and his election to represent Argentina, with La Pulga. It is, more precisely, a curiosity. And the day he debuted with the National Team, he was expelled shortly after he entered. Yes, like Messi’s incredible debut with the Major against Hungary.
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He was born in the Canary Islands in 1987 and a call from his father to the AFA was key to being called up to the national team for the first time.
Brandi treasures the drawing that her grandfather, a dentist who decided to try his luck in the Canary Islands, once made of her with the albiceleste shirt, a ball and the captain’s ribbon on her left arm. As things went well for him, his parents Marcelo and Roxana set out on a trip to Europe. His father, precisely, was the one who called the AFA to notify that his son wanted to represent the National Team. Almost ten years and three World Cups have passed since then.
“The recognition is a joy, I am playing in my last World Cup and winning that recognition will remain in my memory as something very nice,” said the center, who has two daughters with his Portuguese wife Ana, whom he met during his time in the Benfica.
“Luckily I didn’t have to decide between journalism and futsal because if I had had to, I think I would have stayed with journalism,” revealed Brandi, who also has a futsal academy in Jaén and started a beauty business with his wife. .
But he hasn’t stopped writing. In fact, during the preparation for this World Cup in Uzbekistan, he resumed writing a book about his experiences in Futsal, which he knew “when he grew up”, at the age of 23. But be careful, there are still chapters to write and continue dreaming about the National Team.
“In the end we can leave happy with the classification as first in the group, not in the way we would have liked because we had talked about what Angola’s strengths were, but we didn’t know how to stop it, but well, the important thing is that we got the three points and we secured first place and we are in eighth place,” he concluded.