Antoni daimiel y andres montes

andres montes & antoni daimiel – talking about auteur cinema

Do you remember when you became interested in it?  I started in the mid-80s through specialized magazines. Maybe I bought ‘Nuevo Básquet’ and followed sports newspapers, back in 1984 or 1985. Practically nothing was televised then until ‘Cerca de las Estrellas’ (Close to the Stars), by Ramón Trecet, started on Friday nights in ’87. I watched it all the time.
They complemented each other.  I was of an orthodox line and he was very heterodox. He was dragging me to allow myself certain licenses. It’s funny because when he left to La Sexta our personal relationship intensified, he asked me for advice and shared a lot. We talked every day. And I am surprised that he is remembered so much. He would also be surprised, because he always said that this was a very thankless profession.
Like that space he has on Youtube. Nothing is totally written and today technology allows us to enter into many new formats and dare. Many things have gotten worse for sports journalism in general, but at the same time interesting doors are opening, and ‘Colgados del aro’, which I do with Juanma Iturriaga, is one of them.

andres montes & antoni daimiel – pumpkins and custard apples

Of Latin origin, Montes is incomparable. A mythical journalist with two sons who do not touch basketball: one is a doctor and the other studies cooking. But they share humility and sympathy, as they are spontaneous and sincere in everything they talk about.
We would have to go back to 1995, between November and December. Canal + decided to incorporate the journalist to narrate the NBA and more after a report of El Día Después in which Montes was the protagonist. Nico Abad, surprisingly enough, took him on. The current Cuatro presenter was part of the EDD newsroom and, as if it were a divine apparition, he heard a voice he already knew.
«One night I caught his voice zapping on the radio when he was on an antenna in Madrid. I said: ‘Wow, we have to do a report on him’. And when we broadcast it, they called him to do the NBA,» he tells this newspaper. It could have been a simple flourish by Abad, but it was not. Andrés contacted him to thank him for his report. «I’ve been on TV and people have already looked at me in the street,» he said, clearly «impressed» by the popular clamor.

andrés montes’ great anecdote with antoni

He was not even four years old when a Miguel Ángel Brindisi shirt and a goal by ‘Ratón’ Ayala awakened his love for football. Just ten years after the sad farewell of his inseparable Andrés Montes, journalist Antoni Daimiel (Ciudad Real, 1970) presents himself as a nostalgic of that heterogeneous soccer he discovered as a child. «There are coaches who don’t like their players to smile,» laments this atypical ‘colchonero’.
I understand sport as an enjoyment, as a distraction; even if you are very committed to one of the contenders. That’s why I’ve always liked technical players. I have never been attracted to the physically overwhelming ones. I understand the need to win, but for me the percentage of entertainment is fundamental.
I joined Atlético de Madrid thinking that I was joining a big team, because, besides, it coincided with the final of the European Cup and the Intercontinental. The team endured a few years, went through a crisis and came back, but the gilismo destroyed the regularity of a club used to being at the top.

antoni daimiel remembers andrés montes

It is true that he tiptoes over many, many topics, or that the final chronicles leave a strange taste in the mouth… But it is also true that it is very entertaining. It is a delightful (if ephemeral) journey into the past that I could have read five hundred pages more without any problem. I will be happy to repeat it in the future.
A very good compilation of anecdotes and stories about the NBA, the broadcasts, the passion for basketball and the sleepless nights that marked us. I miss a little more «chicha» in some issues that are intuited (problems in Cuatro, for example) but not concrete and perhaps that is a little better spun. Anyway, I had a great time, full of nostalgia and above all I missed the great Andrés Montes again.
A very good compilation of anecdotes and stories about the NBA, the broadcasts, the passion for basketball and the sleepless nights that marked us. I miss a little more «chicha» in some issues that are intuited (problems in Cuatro, for example) but not concrete and perhaps that is a little better spun. Anyway, I had a great time, full of nostalgia and above all I missed the great Andrés Montes again.