Born in 1949, poet, novelist, author of essays on arts and travel accounts, Bernard Chambaz is passionate about sports in general.
For an incidental reason, I had arrived a minute late.
At first, I took Mario Varga Llosa for a former Real player from Madrid, a namesake from the writer, who would have played during the time of Pirri and Santillana. A huge photo was posed at the top of the spans of the Santiago Bernabeu stadium and a hundred thousand people applauded it. But yes, it was him, the writer, alongside another photo where we could recognize Léo Beenhackker, the Dutch coach who had led Real to the title of Spanish champion three times in a row at the end of the 80s, that was not forgotten. I do not believe that a writer has already been applauded by one hundred thousand people. If he had known, he would have experienced great happiness. Knowing him a little, he had been able to imagine.
Mario Vargas Llosa during his speech for the Nobel Prize in 2010.
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-It is his passion for football that he owes this distinction. Neither to his playing career who had not exceeded the junior team of the Universitario de Deportes club or his books, but to his status as a luxury aficionado. His club had already shown his gratitude to him, in his presence, to celebrate his Nobel Prize. On the evening of his death, even the sworn enemy, Alianza Lima paid tribute to him.
Installed in Spain, he had first been a supporter of Barça when he was young and “on the left” then supporter from Real when he was no longer as young but “on the right”, that’s how. Press correspondent at the 1982 World Cup, I hope he admired Socrates. Made marquis by King Juan Carlos, he had done himself, with brown lawyers, king of tax evasion.
Two seasons at the academy
But perhaps the spectators have applauded the writer less, whom they probably had not read, that the companion of the model Isabel Preysler, who was once the wife of Julio Iglesias. However, it was Arturo Pere-Reverte who praised him with the most accuracy: “There is always someone to tell the story, although in the end, there are always others who end up telling the story to the one who tells it. »»
Incidentally, Dom Mario sat at the French Academy, in the 18th 18 chair, which was the chair of Alexis de Tocqueville and Michel Serres. It was a feat because he was the first to be elected without having written a book in French. At 86, it was a daring bet. He had started his speech by quoting, among other things, the name of Camus who knew better than anyone what was at stake with a ball. He had finished it wondering if literature could disappear and saying it was possible. Anyway, he will have carried out the two -seasons at the Academy, footballistically speaking.
