After his long stint on Televisa Deportes, the historic sports journalist offered statements about his past and questioned his return to the microphones
Televisa took a radical turn in the development of its multimedia content, since the sections of TDN (Televisa Deportes Network) and Univisión Deportes (from the United States ), merged to input TUDN, the company’s new sports space that would be a unique benchmark in Central and North America.
With the entry of this new project, several contracts were not renewed within the company and among those sacrificed was Raúl Sarmiento, one of the most experienced reporters and chroniclers of Mexican sports television, who stepped aside from Televisa after more than 30 years linked to it.< /p>
After opening his Youtube channel and joining the newspaper 24 Horas, the creator of the iconic phrase “The ball is at the bottom” was honest through an interview for Apuntes de Rabona, where he played heartstrings about his present, but he looked back with joy on his successful past as a sports journalist.
Raúl Sarmiento, journalist and sports commentator (Photo: Instagram/@raulsarmientodiaz)
In the first preview of the interview, Raúl Sarmiento was faithful to his personality and through well-structured statements and with a touch of nostalgia, he reviewed the hardest moments of his life, his best experiences in front of a microphone and his particular eagle feeling, since he is one of the benchmarks of Americanism to date.
“There are difficult times, but you have to try to get something positive out of everyone. Lawsuits with teammates, not having played professional football, not narrating now and saying ‘perhaps this stage is over’ is difficult”, Sarmiento affirmed in the first bars of the conversation, after being questioned about the most complicated moments of his career.
Despite the events mentioned, he was emphatic in clarifying that his most difficult moments have not been within his profession, since he gave as an example the day he lost his parents, with whom he formed a very special bond and who even transferred the Americanist sentiment.
Raúl Sarmiento with Ricardo Peláez and a group of Televisa commentators (photo: Instagram/@raulsarmientodiaz)
Before mentioning when the first big change in his life took place, Sarmiento< /b> gave a review of how he came to the top command of Televisa Deportes at the dawn of the United States 1994 World Cup, a stage in which he confirmed his evolution as a commentator and field reporter to soccer narrator.
“There are many great and unforgettable moments. I believe that the best is yet to come, I don’t stay in the past. I marvelously enjoyed a thousand things; I’ve been to the world championships, the Olympics, but if I stay at that, I’m not going to enjoy the next thing anymore”, said Raúl about the most special moments during his career.
“I think I can still do a lot of things, I don’t know if I will narrate again, maybe if there is a good offer”
Raúl Sarmiento with Antonio de Valdés, Televisa Deportes commentators (Photo: Instagram/@raulsarmientodiaz)
In this preview published on the Youtube channel of Notes from Rabona, has more than 86,000 subscribers and is popular for his interviews with great personalities from the Mexican sports media, Raúl Sarmiento also explained what it was like to be an Americanist in the 1960s, in addition to the iconic moments he experienced on stage internationals.
“I have narrated goals for Mexico in World Cups, I have seen him being world champion narrating, I have seen America being champion, playing against Barcelona and Real Madrid outside of Mexico, Club World Cups, Mexicans winning a gold medal at the stadium… Blessed be God, that’s all I can tell you. It has been wonderful”, he affirmed in a farewell tone.
Finally, Sarmiento left a brief anecdote about his beginnings as a journalist that now in retrospective are valued differently: “Many years ago, a group of storytellers said: ‘reaching 60 we finished’. Life, due to different circumstances, has presented me with this opportunity to perhaps say ‘so far’ precisely in the sixties, I don’t know”, he concluded.