Obra brings together more than one hundred of its columns published in EL UNIVERSO.
Although from the outset, in the opening kickoff of the talk Mario Canessa Oneto clarifies that he is not a historian, due to the 417 pages of At the end of the tunnel, his new book, parades a legion of Ecuadorian sports characters from ancient and present times whose value lies in having made history, even at a universal level (Pancho Segura, Alberto Spencer, Andrés Gómez, Jefferson Pérez, Richard Carapaz, among others).
Foreign stars like Pelé, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Diego Maradona also appear. There is a place for the Clásico del Astillero, the La Plata feat, and even for events and subjects of thankless memory that Canessa includes so that bad examples are not repeated.
Published by Paradiso Editores, and on sale in the main bookstores of the country, At the end of the tunnel brings together 111 of the more than almost 230 Canessa columns that have appeared since June 2017 in EL UNIVERSO.
The author highlights one of the reasons for writing the book: “Witnessing important events in our sports history that must be known and permanently remembered, basically by journalism, which sometimes forgets them”. The ex-footballer insists on a theme -the story- and then links it with another -a pedagogical intention oriented towards the youngest- on the volume in circulation.
“Alberto Sánchez (+) and Ricardo Vasconcellos Rosado are true historians; There are very few such specialists in the country. With great effort they unraveled facts and as a chronicler I want to transfer those emotions from the past, as well as other recent ones, to the new generations and the general public, who have the habit of remembering them only on specific dates ”, he explains.
Asked about what recommendation he would make to readers to purchase the book, the author of 100 years of Ecuadorian tennis and of The doll (novel), says: “I don’t want to qualify myself, but I can say that it is very didactic, it is not complicated to read and you can do it in any order because you do not lose the thread. That is why I would recommend it and because it relates facts about the sport that some do not know ”.
Canessa believes that his background as president of the Ecuadorian Tennis Federation, member of the FEF and founder of River Ecuador “is not an advantage” for writing about sports. “It is more of a lesson. You have to be involved in the events that you usually comment on, although I would not dare to do political columns, despite having ventured into that field, “he explains.
But “about sports, yes, because I have been immersed in all areas of that activity. In addition, by doing journalism I understand that this activity cannot be only to collect information, but it is necessary to complement it with other content, such as the opinion, and leave concepts of things ”.
Canessa says that in each song of At the end of the tunnel The teaching of the one who calls “teacher” is implicit: the famous journalist Miguel Roque Salcedo, whom he met as a child. “Don Miguel always recommended sticking to the truth, because even if it is questioned and saying it may upset many, it is respected. The lie usually wins applause, but never respect ”.
He leaves a reflection on what he calls a tendency to “easy” among a sector of young journalism. “They read little. They don’t go to libraries. That is a great difficulty. Modern journalism believes that it is just talking and having common sense and it is not so much like that. They must have an intellectual file that allows them to have more arguments when giving their opinion ”. (D)
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