Flavio Azzaro He had a tense moment with a fan who scolded him before the match between Argentina and Canada on the first date of Group A of the America Cup. The journalist was doing a live broadcast for his channel near the stadium when a fan approached him with a camera and reminded him of his criticism of the Argentine team. After the incident, Azzaro shared details on his channel.
“Memory, Argentines, memory. Let it never happen again that cheap journalism makes us feel that we have to go against our players for a little bit of a camera”, the fan told Azzaro while recording it closely with his phone. Although the chronicler laughed and tried to walk away, the man insisted: “Let it not happen again because that is difficult to achieve”. “Shut up, pancho”Azzaro responded, approaching to take the camera away from him when he saw that he was still recording.
Although what happened was not clearly seen due to the struggle, the fan was heard saying: “What’s wrong? I’m going to break your mouth, don’t touch me. Look, there are 50 of us.”.
On his YouTube channel, Azz ContentsAzzaro explained in detail what happened off camera: “What I experienced yesterday was spectacular. There were about 400 Argentines and most of them approach you, congratulate you, talk about your work, ask you for a photo or a video, or remind you of something you said. But suddenly someone shouts ‘Azzaro Bostero’ at you ‘ or ‘vendehumo’. Criticism doesn’t bother me, I live from it. What bothers me is the fake handsome“.
He continued: “The bully who comes and records you makes me uncomfortable. First he filmed me and, seeing what he said, I tried to leave. At another time in my life I would have acted differently. Today I am with my wife working in another country. He wanted to appear recording me to send it to someone else. If he really felt it, he would have chatted with me and even endured insults from him.”
Regarding the moment of tension and the subsequent struggle, Azzaro stated: “When they film you up close, that’s already violent. There comes a point when you don’t allow yourself to be recorded that way. You act, you take the cell phone from him, you push his hand away and say enough is enough. When the camera goes off, these thugs act different. They say ‘look I’m 50’. If there are 20 or you are alone, for me it is the same. In my neighborhood, saying that 50 people are going to hit you while recording with a phone is cowardly.”.
He also revealed that the man provoked him by saying: “Hit me so you go to prison, in this country you go to prison”. “They’re looking for that, for you to act to make yourself look like the bad guy, violent. No, no. I take the phone away because I can’t stand being recorded and making myself look like a fool. The people around me told me ‘forget it, it’s a hot dog’. And they kept asking me for photos.”
Finally, he commented: “I will not tolerate the camera in my face. I will count to 10, as I have been taught, and I will leave or move somewhere else. But when someone crosses the line and follows a person who is working with their woman, stop it. Don’t say I fought because I didn’t. I haven’t fought since I was 16 years old. And even less so with a 40-year-old guy who smells of alcohol and spits his hamburger in your face. When she dropped the phone she said ‘my cell phone, my cell phone’. “Enough of these freaks who want a minute of fame.”