Few people know you as much as your primary school teachers. Know your virtues and abilities and fears and pranks… Alejandra León was Dibu Martínez’s teacher in fifth and sixth grade at the Sagrada Familia School in Mar del Plata.
And, indeed, it remembers everything in great detail. It tells the most genuine side of Emi: how diligent she was with her tasks, her obsession with soccer, and a great anecdote about her fellowship.
-I had Dibu as a student when he was 10 and 11 years old, in 2003 and 2004. I was his general teacher in fifth grade and the language and social classes in sixth grade. Just in that year that I had him, he asks for the change to move to tomorrow’s shift due to training schedules. And I was the teacher who reneged because I didn’t want more kids to happen to me overnight…
-How was Emi at school?
-He was always a very cute, humble and affectionate boy. Very diligent, he was not a ten student, but he was very diligent. He never gave him a bad grade for not doing homework. I still keep a page of him with the beautiful handwriting he had. He was always a very diligent boy and a very good companion.
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-And… yes, some other mischief was sent, but the typical mischief of fifth grade boys. His batons were mainly for the ball: when he touched the recess he was the first to run out and the last to return because he was still playing the ball when the recess ended.
-Surely he lived glued to the ball…
-In all breaks he played ball with his classmates. Sometimes we didn’t let him play, but he managed and put together something to kick. I remember that at school he also did little dances when he stopped.
“He would run out to play ball,” he says.-Was half a character always like this?
-As a boy he always had that charisma to make faces and gestures out of nowhere. What’s more, when they were about to give him the medal in Qatar after beating France, he was jumping behind his teammates. When I saw that face it reminded me of the moments at school because he did the same.
The little dances: a custom that started in primary school.-How did you handle school and soccer?
It was a whole thing. I remember that the father would pick him and his brother up beforehand to take them to train. On one of those afternoons, the director tells him: “But, sir, we can’t always let you out earlier. They seem to care more about football.” And the father replied: “Yes, of course.” Ha ha.
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-How did you experience your departure to Independiente?
-When they told me, it was a revolution. I wished that all his dreams come true, for him and for his parents who fought so hard.
-On the day of communion, all his classmates were lined up to take the group photo and he was just dirty by a dove and he yelled at me: “Señor, the dove stained me”. So, in the photo, instead of coming out with a little angel pose like everyone else, he came out holding his face with his hands, like in “My poor little angel.” All because he had been caught by the dove.
El Dibu and his “My poor Little Angel” face.UNPUBLISHED: DIBU LEAVES IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Drawing’s folder.
The letter of a World Champion in seventh grade.