He took me at night to pee in the two guides

He took me at night to pee in the two guides

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Ernesto “El Tecla” Farías was a killer, but when he went two games without Carlos Bilardo scoring, he jumped into action

Ernesto “El Tecla” Farías was at FC Porto from 2007 to 2010 and currently works in the youth ranks on River Plate. However, he spent most of his career in Estudiantes, his first seven years as a professional, and there he lived with the legendary Carlos Bilardo, the coach who became world champion with Argentina in 1986. In the program “Acá hay una escuela”, Estudiantes’ passion, remember episodes Relationship with the coach.

“When Bilardo came back, I scored in almost every game. But he had a myth, that when he didn’t score, he would bring me to the field the day before to pee in the goals. One day he said to me ‘Pep come on, let’s go to the field.'” It was mid He went to pick me up, he was driving, I was half asleep. And he said to me, ‘There are two games you haven’t scored,’ remembers Farias, who follows the comic: ‘I’ll help you,’ ‘So we went to the stadium and I asked him what we were doing when we arrived. The next day, on the first ball, a goal. He had these things and believed in their superstitions.”

The relationship with the technician was one of complicity. “We were friends, sometimes he called me at two or three in the morning, when he was injured, to see if I slept well, with whom he was, he was crazy … At that time he made me captain with the condition that we have from Tuesday to Sunday. Old people came And they are married on Saturday. There are many other things to tell us… Once we’ve had half an hour to cross the traffic light, it should have been in the green. The bus turns to pass again,” he commented.

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