2023-12-05 16:36:00
Indio Solari’s support for Juan Román Riquelme
The conflict over the suspended elections in Boca Juniors added a new, and unexpected, chapter: Indio Solari expressed his support for Juan Román Riquelme publicly through an audio broadcast by the official account of the xeneize idol on social networks.
“Hello Román, Indio speaks. He wanted to support you. Because you deserve it and because I know your honesty and your ability. And so I want to support you in this unfair campaign that they are doing against you. Well, you know how much I love you and how much I admire you. And I admired you when you were a player and I also admire you for your conduct in charge of what you have to do at Boca. And well, I tell you this separately because I am a bostero,” stated the 74-year-old artist in the audio that was released that had as its soundtrack the song Queso Ruso from the album La Mosca y la Sopa.
Solari’s word is the prelude to a compilation of images taken during last Sunday’s mobilization, which Riquelme himself attended. It has testimonies from Boca partners and fans giving their support to the idol and repudiating the opposition apparatus led by Andrés Ibarra and Mauricio Macri. At the same time, the writing of the post published on Román’s official Instagram accounts (@todosobreroman and @soybostero.oficial) mentioned: “I was never nor will I be an employee of them. No to intervention”, along with the hashtag #ConBocaNO.
El Indio Solari and Riquelme in a meeting they had in 2018
This is not the first time that the former leader of Los Redonditos de Ricota alludes to Riquelme, since in 2017 he had talked a little about football and the 10: “He is a very pleasant person in private.” In addition, he had added that he had a pending barbecue with him and that, as a Boca fan, he watched all the games on television and did not go to the field because he is “phobic.”
The following year, the Argentine rock and soccer icons met at the former player’s house: “He had been inviting me to lunch for a long time. We had a nice moment. We talk often. We spent a couple of hours together, we had a lot of fun. It will be unforgettable that he treated me that way.” Journalist Marcelo Figueras, close to Indio, explained that since Riquelme’s retirement, football stopped being of much interest to him.
On the other hand, support through social networks had also been given by the vocalist when a user commented on a photo: “Boca’s goal, Indio,” they told him, to which he responded “they say we played badly and didn’t.” “We do more than win championships…hahaha…” And he closed, in reference to Román: “He was at our house a while ago and we had a very pleasant afternoon. He is a very smart guy.”
The text that Indio Solari dedicated to Riquelme:
“An artist, I believe, almost unaware of such magnitude and gratefully accepting being a popular musician, has the duty to cross the border of common sense of the society where he manifests himself. Visit that unknown land as many times as necessary to observe life from a state of consciousness that quickly escapes from traditions, from the legacy of the dead. His rewards are loneliness, the strong and transitory wind of passion, and drunkenness caused by occasional beauty.
You will probably never achieve that your destiny is nothing more than the echo of your desires. He must, then, be brave enough not to let fear prevent her loving appetite from expressing what she believes she should express. He will accept that his destiny is relatively temporary and violent. Your emotions, your reflections and your personal judgments, if you do not take the elusive beauty by storm, are nothing. Her style must be nourished by the extraordinary and strange (which is never neutral).
Now, after all this chatter with which I have played to describe what is not my own, only now do I see that an exemplary and clear definition comes to me to put an end to this vain attempt. And then I say: AN ARTIST IS ROMAN.”
*Extract from the book “Memories that lie a little” (memoirs in conversations with Marcelo Figueras)
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