Miguel Del Sel: The club’s thriving, big things coming soon | OneFootball

The second vice president of Unión spoke with Radio Gol ahead of the Argentine Cup match against River, and this is what he said.

I think neither River nor Unión benefited from being so far away, at least for the fans, for the Unión family and the River supporters, Rosario would have been much more convenient.

Hope is the last thing you lose. I’m trying to, maybe with my personality, bring something positive to the squad, to LEO, to the group, to the board. I try for us to be positive, supportive, without resentment—there’s a lot of ego, too.

I’m already very much removed from those things. So, I try to contribute my life experience, from 44 years of working, from having been a national deputy, from having been an ambassador, and well, today I’m the second vice president of the club. I try to add from that side, look for sponsors, run a good membership campaign, because Unión needs more members so that later we can sign, when people complain, maybe sign other types of players, perhaps more expensive or with a different skill set, as they say now.

So, that’s going to be my role at the club, and I do it with all my love, I do it pro bono, I don’t get paid, it’s all time I’m going to give to the club in these years. I hope things go very well for us, and of course, my wish would be a championship and always fighting at the top, not down below.

Totally, of course. That was the name of Tota’s show, totally. I enjoy everything I do, and everything I take on, I do with passion, knowing it’s going to go well for me. I try not to get involved in something I couldn’t handle or couldn’t do properly, so in that sense I’m at ease.

Yes, and bringing calm as well, it’s not easy, as I said during the campaign supporting Luis, it’s very easy to talk, to criticize, because the club is doing very well. The club keeps growing, the other day the box for visiting fans was inaugurated, the new stand is coming, surely there will be a new facility in the future. The club is fantastic, with basketball in the top division, with national swimming champions, the girls as champions, the third team now beating Rafaela and going to the semifinals in the Copa Santa Fe, qualifying for international cups.

The club is doing very well. The school, the social life that Unión has, really surprises me. Sometimes I pass by at noon on my way home, on Wednesdays, and I see hundreds of kids coming out of school, and you see that the front of Unión today must be the nicest block or corner in Santa Fe, it must be Unión’s corner.

So all that needs to be valued, then we have a fantastic squad, we have a fantastic coach, Kily González was too, and Vasco and Munúa and everyone, because I try to make friends in football, because criticizing is the easiest thing and doing is the hardest. So I’m trying to do, to bring calm, the fans need to become members, that’s what I’m asking, for the fans to become members. It’s two fewer beers or a pizza and a beer less, but the club needs the membership fee to be paid, for us to keep growing, and that happens when the fans become club members.

I enjoy this, being there, being with the players, giving them a hug, taking a photo, sending it to my brother, here I am with the guys, to my daughters. So I’m also enjoying this like a kid, because it’s not easy, not everyone can be with a first division squad, come on this bus, on the plane with the guys. So, I’m also enjoying it as a fan, as a person, because I’m still the same old guy as always, don’t think that just because I’ve experienced important things I don’t still enjoy the simple things, and these are simpler than simple, so I enjoy it.

Madelón is great, people are saying it, he’s calm, he’s happy, he’s in a stage of his life, I think, of inner peace, he’s doing very well, I don’t know if mystical. Of course, of course, you see there are players who go to a club and nothing happens, and then they come back and keep scoring goals, and you say, what happened here? It’s like there’s a place in the world, like people find in living in a certain town, or in a certain house, or in a certain apartment, there are also players and coaches who find in a club, because of affinity, affection, history, the ideal place.

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