It is a fragment of the nineties, which surprised people on social networks and went viral: the video of a young Lionel Scaloni declaring his love to the well-known journalist Greta Rodríguez. In the video, the Argentine national team coach had the complicity of his friend and current field assistant, Pablo Aimar, who challenged Pujato to play it.
The images are from TyC Sports and would be from 1997, when both were part of the team that was Under 20 world champion in Malaysia and was the second conquest of a youth team under the command of José Néstor Pékerman, who had already led the team to glory. Albiceleste two years earlier in Qatar. In 2001, another team of said coach was crowned in the tournament held in Argentina.
In the testimony, Scaloni appeared shouting wildly with “I’m in love.” Faced with that exclamation, the interviewer (Hugo De Cucco) suggested that Greta Rodríguez go to greet the then youth, who insisted: “Lionel is in love!”
Then the communicator warned him that “now when she comes, don’t get upset, ask her out.” There Aimar shot the man from Santa Fe, “why don’t you dare to tell him ‘I fell in love with you’, here, in front of everyone?” Scaloni did not shrink, he shook Pablo’s hand and told him “I’ll play you whatever you want.”
Immediately afterwards, they rushed Lionel again and challenged him: “The guy not only has to tell her that he fell in love, but he has to ask her out.” There Scaloni argued that “this week is impossible, tomorrow we have to train.” It was then that Aimar encouraged him and told him “when you say you were with Greta, you know what? Don’t train”, in a comment that generated laughter in the studio.
Later Greta Rodríguez herself appeared, who was part of the sports signal in the early years. In her presence, Scaloni stopped, went to greet her and again shouted “I fell in love with Greta.” After the expected meeting with the journalist, she ignored him since she went and greeted Aimar. “They cut your face,” they told Lionel, who made a funny gesture with his arms.
The anecdote stayed there and it was within the framework of a very special moment for those players who made their first weapons and reached the top in their category. Scaloni, after debuting in Primera at Newell’s, moved to Estudiantes de La Plata and later emigrated to Europe. Aimar, for his part, was a champion with River Plate and also played in the Old World.
Both were also part of the senior team and made up the squad that played in the World Cup in Germany in 2006. The friendship continued and once they retired, the Albiceleste brought them together again. Together with another former teammate of his in that 1997 youth team, Walter Samuel, as well as a historic former senior national team player, Roberto Ayala, they were responsible for leading Lionel Messi and company to the unforgettable consecration at the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
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