Javier Milei, the soccer past of the surprising winner of the Argentine elections

The Economist javier mileiwho this Sunday became the most voted presidential candidate in the primary elections held in ArgentinaHe has a football past: he was a goalkeeper for Chacarita Juniors.

‘Crazy’ Milei, as he was called then, was a goalkeeper in the lower categories of the club ‘undertaker’ -nicknamed like this because of its proximity to the Chacarita cemetery, the largest in the city of Buenos Aires and where legendary figures such as Carlos Gardel, Alfonsina Storni, Aníbal Troilo or Benito Quinquela Martín rest-.

The far-right deputy, who obtained the support of 30.04% of the electoral roll, became the biggest surprise of the primaries by defeating the two great fronts of Argentine politics: the opposition Juntos por el Cambio (center-right), who achieved a 28.27% support, and the official Unión por la Patria (Peronist), 27.27%.

With a very fine type and a bulky hairstyle, well representative of the 80s, which made him similar to the British singer Rod Stewart or Bono from the early days of the Irish band U2, the goalkeeper Milei looks smiling in the photos that, in the framework of the electoral contest, circulated in the last days in the Argentine press rescuing its football past.

However, the wild hair, which today characterizes the disruptive politician, who has defended ending the Central Bank, the sale of organs as part of the free market and the use of weapons, was blond and not dark, as seen in the photo. present.

Milei was between 12 and 14 years old when she arrived at Chacarita Juniors, as ex-soccer player Gabriel Bonomi recently explained to the digital media Infobae, who said that “exactly the same as it is in life, he was an archer”because “He threw himself everywhere, he didn’t care about anything.”

“He was one of those strong, big, half crazy guys, because we called him ‘El Loco’ Milei”added the former member of ‘Funebrero’.

Some of those who shared those times with him define him as someone “shy”although most emphasize that “he was already a leader” when he was on a soccer field and Bonomi himself reiterates that “If you had to throw yourself into the mud, you would throw yourself into the mud.”

Milei, who will be 53 years old on the same day that the general elections are held, in which she aspires to occupy the Casa Rosada (headquarters of the Argentine Government) or, at least, to go to the second round on November 19, left the football when he had to choose between sport and his studies, as he has recounted in several interviews.

This Sunday he became the great protagonist of electoral day in Argentina, ‘shortening’ the rise of the opposition member Patricia Bullrich, very close to him in some of his approaches and who was emerging as the winner of the night, and loudly defending the ‘bow’ of his ideas that could reach the title in October.

Source: EFE