Last Thursday, February 24, premiered “Bilardo: the Doctor of Soccer”an HBO documentary that reveals the secrets of Carlos Salvador Bilardo, one of the most transcendental and iconic characters in the history of the Argentine national team, champion as coach in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico.
That’s why below we will review 10 of the best phrases of the 83-year-old protagonist, who since 2017 suffers from a neurodegenerative disease, a man with many customs, always looking for details to take advantage, a true fanatic and passionate about his own. Let’s go there.
″In other shows people shout ‘another, another’. In football, people are suffering because they want the time. It is a spectacle for the impartial, but for the fan it is a spectacle in which the result prevails, Bilardo assured, justifying that winning is more important than playing nice with a clear and concrete example.
Menotti and Bilardo never got along, and their enmity went far beyond the differences they had in their football ideology. “Menotti never messed with my family. And I never said anything about his. The issue was between the two of us. In that we were loyal “
“Sorry, if they keep giving it to those in yellow, we’re going to lose”. The only thing Bilardo said at halftime of the match against Brazil, was that he was giving Argentina a ride, in the 1990 World Cup. And that’s how we beat Brazil in a World Cup for the first time in history.
Bilardo used to offer a significant amount of money on his radio show to anyone who had more titles than him. No one claimed the prize.
– Do you have the money?
– Yes.
– Beckenbauer must have more titles than you.
– No.
– Because?
– He lacks the medical one.
″Kids, put a suit and a white sheet in the suitcase. The suit is in case we are champions; the white sheet in case they eliminate us in the first round and we have to go live in Arabia”said Bilardo, faithful to his style, before Mexico 86. The result was in sight…
Bilardo and his parallels, Bilardo and his inventiveness. He compared the position on the court with that of the intimacy of the man and the woman at the time of having sex.
“I have 50 years of court, you were wrong miss, it’s Gatorei”, said Bilardo in 2004, in the preview of a match for the Closing of that year that faced River and Students. A prosecutor inside the playing field, accusing Bilardo of having entered with alcohol. Despite Bilardo’s insistence, the bottle left the place sealed and was subjected to several tests.
The full sentence: “I ask the team for concentration. A doctor has to be focused for 12 hours so that the patient does not die, I ask for just 90 minutes”. Bilardo said it knowingly, since he is also a gynecologist.
That’s what he told his leaders at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, and the team led by Diego Armando Maradona on the field paid attention to him and brought the World Cup to Argentina.
The complete sentence is as follows: “Winning is not the most important thing, it is the only thing. Being second is not worth it. Do you know who set foot in America after Columbus? I do not”. Many may argue with that thought, but your conviction and the way you explain it with that comparison is everything.
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