“You don’t look like a soccer player, you,” he snapped. Mirtha Legrand a Adrián Maravilla Martínezthe scorer of Racingchampion of the South American Cup and one of the best soccer players in Argentina. At 97 years old, the driver did not need too much time to realize what the environment learned this year, the team’s lethal striker Gustavo Costas He is a weirdo, and with a life story that seems straight out of a movie.
Maravilla began by talking about his tough past, when before deciding on professional football he had to spend seven months in prison by mistake and behind bars he had to face serious episodes in which he was almost murdered. “They want to rob you, they want to stab you,” he once said, in one of his few interviews.
This Saturday, in Mirtha’s nightthe cycle eltrece which has Legrand always in force, the footballer spoke again about that difficult time. “Were you imprisoned, Adrián?” the host of the cycle shook him to the bone.
“Yes… I have a younger brother who had problems with a family, and his friends went and burned down his house,” Maravilla commented, leaving the host speechless. “The curtains set fire to him and he grabbed the wooden ceiling. That’s why I, my brother, my father and two other friends were imprisoned,” he explained.
“Later we were able to get out of that, free, without guilt or charges. And that’s when I decided to play soccer, in prison they asked me if I would dare to play when I was no longer in prison. And I said that I would dare. Because I had an accident here on my hand, almost 12 years have passed, and at that time I couldn’t move much, I couldn’t do any other work with my hand. I went, tried it on, and then the doors began to open,” Maravilla summarized. with a naturalness that impacted no not only to Mirtha but to the other guests at the table, Rocío Marengo and the actors Roly Serrano and Federico Bal.
In that context outside of football, without a cassette in the statements, Maravilla also spoke about his future in Racing, told which team he is a fan of, although he has already lost his fanaticism, and clarified which teams he could no longer play for, including Independiente.
“Until now (Sebastián) Saja called me, (Diego) Milito has to call me and see…” said the scorer when Mirtha asked him if he was still going. And he stressed to the host that they had a great year and that they are waiting for offers. The diva and Marengo wanted to know if he would stay at the Academy, and Maravilla was sincere: he avoided commonplaces and left a pall of doubt.
“Personally, I am thinking that one day football will end. I enjoy the process but time passes, this is a job that forces you to be away from your family for a long time, miss dates, I am clear about it. “If I were well off financially, maybe I wouldn’t play anymore,” Maravilla responded with the same coldness that he shows when facing goalkeepers.
It was there that Mirtha told him that he didn’t look like a soccer player, but she wanted to know something else: “Why did you agree to come to my program?”
“I came because I think it is a very important place to be with you, it is an honor. I hardly appear on television,” said Maravilla, who had yet to leave another title. It was Mirtha who asked him what painting it was from.
“My family is all from River, and so am I, but I’m not a fan,” he commented very dryly, without leaving any type of doubt. “You said it, I don’t look like a soccer player,” he added.
Of course, he clarified that he would never play for Independiente. “That is something that I respected my entire career, I cannot play for the rival of the club that fed me. I played at Instituto and received offers to move to Talleres and I said no,” shot the scorer, who is now 32 years old. but he started playing at 23 and is on the lookout for a sale that will ensure him a good sum of money.
“Wonderful… you are a Wonder,” Mirtha ended up saying to her Racing’s scorer.