Christian Martinoli rejected an offer from Televisa (Instagram/ @cmartinolimx)

Among sports commentators, Christian Martinoli has become a favorite of Mexican football fans since the duo he formed with Luis Garcia He brought originality and grace to the way of telling the matches of the Liga MX. Your success in Aztec TV was imitated on other TV channels, such as Televisiona company with which they are in direct competition.

For this reason, the Chapultepec television channel tried to approach Martinoli to convince him and take it for televised sports, as it was called before, and there to exploit the personality that the Toluca club fan had already built for himself. However, the offer never materialized, it did not even reach the offices of Ajusco.

It was Christian Martinoli himself who accepted that had an offer Television, but that did not materialize. During an interview with David Medranothe creator of the expression “what happens Doctor García” recounted how representatives of his competition approached him to try to take him and sign him with the rival chain.

Martinoli has revealed that he hates Televisa for José Ramón (Photos: Instagram/@cmartinolimx)
Martinoli has revealed that he hates Televisa for José Ramón (Photos: Instagram/@cmartinolimx)

at the end of South Africa World Cup 2010representatives who took former players Television They contacted Martinoli to see the possibility of arranging a meeting to discuss, but they never told him why they wanted to meet.

“Once, after the World Cup in South Africa, Jorge Berlanga, the representative of Paco Memo. He told me about Spain: ‘Hey, I’ll send Greck Taylor because we have an offer for you.‘, and I said ‘hey, what are we talking about? these promoters what,’” he said.

Since he had suspicions about what was going on, he decided to cite them in a visible place as he had nothing to fear. At first, he thought it had to do with branding issues, but even so, he didn’t have any specific information about the meeting.

Javier Alarcón was in charge of Televisa Deportes when the offer came to Martinoli (Photo: Instagram/ @javier_alarcon_g)
Javier Alarcón was in charge of Televisa Deportes when the offer came to Martinoli (Photo: Instagram/ @javier_alarcon_g)

“So I thought they had a deal with a strong brand and they were interested in something. So here I am meeting them in a hotel there in Polanco but on the terrace facing the street. S they are going to see us, let them see us well because I already felt something strange“, he recalls.

Once at the meeting point, they talked until the subject of the offer of Television: “I spoke with Greck for about two hours, we talked about a thousand things, very nice and suddenly he told me ‘I took for Television to Zinedine ya Figo and then, then, then’ and I ‘ok’…”.

So from then on the tone of the conversation changed, he turned around to see how Christian Martinoli could move on to Television and leave Aztec TV after the 2010 World Cup.

“Well, they told me that ‘if you want to accept a job offer in Television‘ and I was like, ‘Look, any offer that comes to me, the first thing I have to do is talk to Aztec and if Aztec I match the offer that anyone who comes to me, I stay in Aztec'”

TV Azteca consolidated a style with Martinoli, Luis García and Jorge Campos (Instagram/ @cmartinolimx)
TV Azteca consolidated a style with Martinoli, Luis García and Jorge Campos (Instagram/ @cmartinolimx)

Once the representatives heard this, they thought about the possibilities of convincing Martinoli, they were even in accept the offer of Aztec TVbut as the sports commentator explained, that never happened.

“Well, yeah, no, they never made me a formal offer, but it was like the approximation that if I was interested,” he said.

Due to rumors that may have arisen, Christian took the initiative to discuss it with his direct boss in Aztec to avoid any misunderstanding and to clarify that he wanted to continue on the Ajusco television channel.

“As soon as I finished the meeting, I came with my boss, Mr. Suárez, and told him ‘this has just happened so that they don’t come and throw the four at him’ and that was the only time “, he concluded.

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