Diego "Mono" Sánchez, footballer: "The goalkeepers are super rare"

The Monkey is a gigantic man who is looking for a bow. El Mono is currently a goalkeeper without grass, his name is Diego Sánchez and he has lost his job.

-It's hard.

-What he wants?

-Be on the field.

The Monkey likes to scream and fly. He likes to face the striker, face the press, the leaders. This Monkey is the mix between dexterity and courage. And before the philosophical query, "How are you, Monkey?", he says, to the point:

-I am as I am.

-What is it like to be like this?

-I'm going straight ahead. But I don't get into other people's rolls.

-What is he up to?

-Huh?

-What interests you?

-Live the day-to-day.

-What else?

-To be with those who love me.

The first month unemployed is fulfilled and the Monkey chokes. He gets upset. Damn, eight years of leadership and a brief end. Eight years in the Spanish Union, titles, jineta knotted on the left arm, and with two sentences and a monetary argument they come off the idol. And the idols are not subject to contracts, they are only subject to the epic. Idols, they say in Argentina, are poems wearing studs. You can't throw a poem. The poems are forever drawn on the flag.

I go forward. But I do not get into the rolls of others.

-But well… that's it- Mono Sánchez sighs, subtly resigned. It is that he, this 34-year-old athlete with an excellent quality scalp, is a man who goes beyond football. There is life without the ball. There are two children and a girlfriend who appears on television. Yamila, the actress and comedian. Jamila, the queen.

-And Yamila Reyna, what does she say?

-La Negra -says the Monkey- is the best. And she makes me angry...

- What's up, boss? -The reporter suddenly, footballed, begins to speak in Argentine.

-Look, before Yamila, I ate a thousand goals and the fans used to put me down and tell me: bad ass. Since I've been with Yamila, if he sends me a shit, if I eat a single goal, the fans say: he got sick because he got into show business.

-...like a Yoko Ono that distracts him from the objective, Diego- the reporter ventures thoughtfully.

-No... all that has no logic...

-I don't doubt it: she is the opposite...

-Sure.

-In football there are embarrassing salaries. I have colleagues who, due to the situation of recent times, have had to go to work in construction.

Raise your voice:

- Angry bitch!

The Monkey doesn't filter his emotions. He says that he comes from a town and there he teaches himself to go straight.

Is there a mafia in football?

I think that is known. There's all that betting stuff.

El Mono has twice been offered a stimulus in money to accommodate a result. He twice said no.

-What do you think of women's football?

-I love it.

What are you going to think, asshole, when a forward with the face of a murderer comes at you and is going to throw a missile at you!

-Christiane Endler could play with men?

-I don `t believe. There is a lot of difference between the strength of a man and that of a woman. The kick of a man is not the same as that of a woman.

- Is there homosexuality in football?

-I haven't seen it. But that would not cause any problem.

And he reviews glimpses of his glory. And he says that he was once in the Red and that the dressing room was nice. And he thinks that Charles Aránguiz is a genius. That Arturo Vidal makes a lot of jokes. He confesses that he does not admire many sports journalists, only Negro Palma, he emphasizes, because of his oral skills. He has no affinity with Solabarrieta. Yes, he had it with Bonvallet.

-And you, Diego, are you the best?

The Monkey adopts a sudden seriousness.

-I always feel that I am the best. Every day I wake up thinking that I am the best.

And he feels a muscle, undaunted.

Not everyone leads the majestic life of Alexis Sánchez

To stage

Now the Monkey becomes a citizen.

-How do you see Chile?

-I think the town is uniting little by little.

-On Monday, December 20, 2021, after the elections, was his marraqueta crispy?

-That day the toasts were very rich.

Diego smiles.

-Do you trust Boric?

And the Monkey, after admitting that he was raised in a family linked to communism, to a forceful left, highlights something much simpler in the new authority:

I like Boric.

He pauses and comments:

-Boric looks with tremendous eggs.

-In what sense?

-I mean… I'm not even shitting myself in charge of a country!

And he laughs with a hint of nervousness.

-And how has he got along with Yamila's friends? How has he been linked to the world of television?

-I hate the actors.

Boric looks with tremendous eggs

-Why?

-They are very human. And they have a big head.

Sometimes, to cite one case, el Mono plays tennis with standapero Juan Pablo López. And Yamila is shocked and says:

-Juan Pablo López is MY friend!

And Monkey Sánchez replies:

-No, Juan Pablo López is MY friend!

So the Monkey enjoys the show and this reaches such a point that, unexpectedly, the archer confesses:

-I want to do stand up.

-As he says?

-I'm interested. I love that environment.

"What are you going to get yourself into, Monkey?"

-I want to tell the life of football. All the jokes.

-As which?

-Chis…I'm going to tell about that at the Viña Festival…

And the Monkey does not laugh because he is saying it realistically. He wants, in the future, to dedicate himself to stand up. Others advise him to work on television. He has the presence and command of orality. He has the advice of the queen from him.

-And you are jealous?

-He used to be jealous. But I am next to a woman who gives me all the confidence.

-The world of football is very macho… does she get uncomfortable when she takes photos in a bathing suit?

I love that she shows herself.

And then the Monkey's eyes open, love and passion sprout from him and he gives a Tarzanesque cry:

-If I had Yamilame's body, I'd take a ball down the Alameda!

He bursts out into a musical laugh.

-And have you decided if you will have children?

I want to do stand up

The Monkey does not evade it:

-We will not have children. We decided. There in Aruba we looked at families with children, all hysterical, while we were lying in the sun. And, of course, we're fine like this...

And the goalkeeper smiles. And then Diego Sánchez, alias el Mono for Mono Burgos, returns to his position as goalkeeper. And he meditates on his future with inner peace. He deduces that he will already have another team, an arc will come, it is imminent that the hero will soon return to the flying. And he will continue to be the real player and the Playstation player that he plays with his own son today.

-I need to go back…- whispers the idol, the Red, the one who was fired but has the Union tattooed. And it is clear that very soon, again, the Monkey will climb a crossbar again. And from there he will start thinking.

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