Hernán Casciari, the narrator who compared Messi to his dog and a decade later made him cry

What Lionel Messi in Qatar 2022, Hernan Casciari He also fulfilled his childhood dream: telling stories so he wouldn’t have to work. At 51 years old, it is the great World Cup that this Argentine has conquered who, when he writes or when he reads, shakes you. At the age of eleven, he set out to “grasp a feeling and put it on another person” playing with words, and boy has he become an expert: a couple of days ago, on his radio program Perros de la calle, his co-host broadcast on air a message from Messi on WhatsApp that was addressed to him.

“Anto (Antonella Roccuzzo) showed me about Hernán. What he wrote, as he told it to her. It was impressive, we both began to cry because it is something very true. He wanted to say hello, thank him and tell him that we heard him, we got excited and he wanted him to know it. I send you a big hug”, was heard. Within the first three seconds of the audio, casciari he was already rubbing his eyes. And when he finished, he who always finds ingenious ways to express himself, didn’t quite know what to say. It’s not every day that a world champion who is also the best in the world thanks you.

The story to which the ’10’ of the Argentine team refers is La valija de Messi which, by the way, illustrates the next issue of the Orsai magazine, that editorial madness by Casciari where intermediaries do not enter to carve. That magazine that has no readers, only fans. What is this text about? How Messi left Argentina, but how Argentina never left him. Before the ‘Flea’ debuted in 2004, he was already the star of Barça’s minor divisions, and Casciari, who had lived there since 2001, never missed a game played by that little boy who was his Argentinian character in Catalonia.

“There were two kinds of immigrants: those who kept their suitcase in the closet as soon as they arrived in Spain, they said ‘okay’, ‘uncle’ and ‘hosts’. And those of us who had not kept our suitcases kept the customs, such as mate or yeísmo. We said yuvia, we said caye”Casciari says. He says that when he heard the iconic “What a look, fool, go paya” he confirmed that Messi had never lost his yeísmo. Something like wearing your country’s shirt underneath wherever you go.

Avellaneda Racing fan, casciari He has the gift of turning the places where he tells stories into stadiums. Unlike football, the best encouragement is silence. Silence that breaks, from time to time, with paragraphs of his, loaded with humor and tragedy, powerful phrases, and devastating endings. Only after finishing with a story does the audience, delighted, applaud him as if he had scored a goal.

ten years ago, to casciari it occurred to him to explain Messi comparing him to his childhood dog. Totín went crazy with the sponge to wash the dishes. Every time he grabbed her he wouldn’t let go. He wouldn’t stop looking at her. And he moved it at great speed, like Messi when he dribbled rivals as if they were cones of flesh and blood. No one could take the ball from him. “Messi is a dog or better, a dog man. Messi is the first dog playing football. He doesn’t understand the rules of soccer, that’s why he doesn’t jump when they lock him, that’s why he doesn’t complain, ”he wrote. The text then became a book, and today it is cultured.

Today, from our computers, Casciari continues to gather us around the fire. A supreme moment where not even WhatsApp alerts can poke their noses. Will it be the last time that Casciari dedicates a story to Messi? There will be hope as long as he keeps crumpling his ideas into little balls.