2023-04-28 00:28:26
It’s 10:00 a.m. and Dani Lorenzo, aka Dani Kongi, starts his live on Twitch. He hooks more than 500 viewers until three o’clock with his comments on the games of the shooter Valorant. In the afternoon, he reconnects, uploads content to other social networks, manages his bills as a freelancer and does not neglect his original passion, basketball. Despite the bitterness of his years in LEB Oro with Araberri, the point guard continues to compete in Madrid’s Real Canoe. “My father does not want me to leave him,” he noted yesterday for ELCORREO before starting a work day of more than eight hours. The man from Vitoria, who has lived in Madrid since last summer, maintains his intense routine a week after rising to fame. He participated in the second edition of the 3×3 tournament of Ibai Llanos, the Basque who triumphs with everything he touches, took the victory with his team, ‘Champi’, and won the MVP of the tournament in front of more than 100,000 connected spectators to the screen. “The repercussion marks me that my parents found out, that they never find out about this.” Jesús and Ángela used the carrot and stick technique. “They congratulated me and told me that now let’s see if the one who had to win won.” The game of the weekend at LEB Plata. Related News Dani Lorenzo standard If Cristiano Ronaldo gives a hair implant to this man from Vitoria Iván Benito The prize for the Ibai Llanos title is four tickets to see the Olympic Games in Paris, although the reward is much higher. The definitive boost to his work as a ‘caster’ or video game narrator, which already has 28,500 followers. «My mobile phone was lost. Now I don’t notice it much, but in the long run it sure favors me, ”reflects the content creator of Revels, the video game team formed by Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea. Broadly speaking, the Internet now feeds him and places him in the orbit of those who have made gold, which basketball has never given him. Known in the Álava capital for his dedication to the Araberri, for nine years as a speaker for Araski, his perseverance has led him to succeed as a ‘streamer’, producer of live broadcasts. Hours and hours in front of a camera that began in confinement. “I was a bit bored and I set up a Fornite tournament – a computer game – that the Hernangómez brothers ended up playing.” He encouraged him to open his Twitch channel, where he experienced “the worst feeling in the world.” «The first year I was eight or ten hours in front of the computer and one, five or ten people saw me. I didn’t earn anything.” He liked video games since he was little. “My father would reward me with a Pokemon game if he got good grades.” He grew up with the evolution of consoles and switched to the computer on the sly. «He played in secret. He was frowned upon. People think that you don’t sleep and that this could alter my performance on the track. Now, entertainment profits from its creators based on donations, subscriptions and advertising. A nickname for skin tone It was in 2021 when his community, his number of followers, began to grow. The name ‘DaniKongi’ stopped being one of millions of frustrated attempts to succeed on the Internet. “The name derives from conguito and it’s my nickname since I was little because I get very tan in summer,” he clarifies wistfully. Still without excessive income, in June 2022 he decided to take the most complicated and most important step. Leaving Vitoria and settling in Madrid. «The first months were screwed. He was up to date and barely left home. He only needed money to eat and rent ». But earnings continued to rise, and in December he broke yet another barrier. There was a boom in ‘esports’ teams and he received eight succulent offers. Despite not being the highest financially, he says, he decided on David De Gea’s. «He came to the meeting in person and told me I want you on my team. Go figure”. The jump was unstoppable. To the point that last Friday Antoni Daimiel narrated his statistics as if he were an NBA player. The echoes of success for a Judimendi neighbor who finds it difficult to say his age. The Internet gives you away. Born in ’93, he turned 30 in January. He speaks without mincing words to his beloved Baskonia of him. «He has never done well with the quarry. The people from Vitoria play in the Basque league and for the Spanish championship they bring six scholarship holders. It is taken for granted that foreigners are better and then not many have risen to the first team. And in the subsidiary, some by decree have 25 minutes. He is also critical of Vitoria as a city. “It is a town in this world and does not have the feeling of valuing the home.” The initial comments of “who believes himself” or “nobody sees him” come to mind. This week many of those ‘haters’ write to congratulate him and Lorenzo leaves them this message. “I’m not even going to answer them. If they read this, let them know.”
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