2023-06-16 14:01:05
Be careful, one Marcelo Gallardo can hide another. As the story goes Provencea 62-year-old journalist, namesake of the Argentine coach and working for a local news site in Punta del Este, located 140 km from the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo, has been receiving messages galore on his Twitter account for several days supporters of OM but also of Monaco.
These are certainly deceived by the famous blue dot on Twitter which confirms that the account does indeed belong to Marcelo Gallardo. Only here, it is not about the former player of Monaco (1999-2003) or PSG (2007-2008), who has been free on the transfer market for a year after leaving the bench of the Argentine club of River Plate and could succeed Igor Tudor on the OM side.
“Marcelo, come to Marseille. It’s the same as River Plate, it’s hot, 65,000 people at each game. We have the preliminary round of the Champions League. Don’t go to Monaco, they play in front of 8,000 people and no European Cup. Marseille is River Plate, we’re counting on Marcelo! “, tweets an Olympian. “Don’t sign in Marseille please. Come to Monaco, especially not to Marseille. It’s false what they tell you in Marseille. It’s a trap, you’ll be better off in Monaco,” writes a Monegasque.
The journalist in question takes this story with a lot of humor. Moreover, he does not miss the opportunity to respond to messages from Marseilles and Monegasques imploring him to sign in their club. “I insist: I’m staying in Punta del Este,” he replies to some. “I receive messages from Marseille. By this means, I deny the information given to me as the future technical director of @OM_Officiel. Don’t insist,” he replies to others.
In the defense of the Marseillais and Monegasques, this is not the first time that supporters have been wrong. “Since I have a Twitter account, I have been confused with Gallardo, he explains to La Provence. Colombians have repeatedly asked me to bring players from their country to River Plate. Many parents also ask me for jerseys, balls, pennants. I send them all back to the club. »
Even before social media, confusion existed between the footballer and the journalist. “In the 1990s, I participated in an article in the Argentinian magazine Noticias on the corrupt police of Bonaerense. I provided information on the multi-million dollar properties of two commissioners in Punta del Este. The article had a considerable impact. Its author, Carlos Dutil warned me that the aforementioned commissioners believed that the player Marcelo Gallardo had provided the information implicating them. My name had appeared in the production of the note,” he recalls.
Ironically, Marcelo Gallardo, the journalist, is a supporter of Peñarol, the most famous Uruguayan club and also the great rival of the other Montevideo team, Nacional… Who was a player and coach Marcelo Gallardo, the former Argentinian international footballer . This can sometimes cause unexpected situations. “Once, I reserved a table in a famous restaurant in Montevideo. When I arrived there was a welcoming committee made up of cooks, employees and other restaurant managers. All were Nacional supporters. When I told them my first and last name, they turned away in annoyance. My wife was worried that they put something in our food. Luckily, I didn’t tell them that I was a Peñarol supporter,” he clarified.
The journalist also admits that he also benefited from it: “It amuses me a lot. Before the pandemic, I went to Buenos Aires almost every month. I always got a table in their splendid restaurants. Even on Saturday at 10 p.m. It was enough to pronounce my name and my first name during the reservation by telephone for a table to become available. »
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