Paulo Rosales joined #ADNGol before Unión v Newell's | OneFootball

In the lead-up to today’s Unión–Newell’s match starting at 8:30 p.m., with “Pichi” being a former player for both clubs, he spoke about it with Darío Pignatta.

“Leo (Madelón) has managed to turn Unión into a serious team, a competitive team that goes to any stadium and stands its ground in its own way, with its own style of play, and it’s a tough team. They’re strong at home, Unión is very strong at home. I think it’s going to be a good match. Maybe Unión—if Unión wins today, I think they’ll almost secure a spot among the top eight already, so today’s match is hugely important. Hopefully it turns out to be a good game that people can enjoy, and well, may the better team win. In football, I’ve always liked it when the team that plays better wins.”

When asked about the friends of the champion, Paulo highlighted: “I still have my lifelong friends from Cosquín, I still get together with the people I grew up with. Here in Santa Fe I have many friends; I have people who sat by my side when I went through my health issue, the head surgery. And those are the people who are there, the ones who matter to me.”

Another thing recalled by the current Libertad de Nelson coach was his arrival at Independiente, and he made it clear that not everything is rosy: “When I arrived at Independiente, I had left Unión as a free agent and I didn’t get a single peso when I got to Independiente. I remember I signed everything in Buenos Aires, and the people who handled the deal at that time took it all, took the money, and I went by taxi from Buenos Aires to Tandil for preseason without having received a single peso.”

In that regard, the former professional player says that because of those experiences, he turned down business proposals to stay purely in the sporting side of things: “It’s complicated, it’s complicated. Honestly, after I retired, at one point they told me to get involved with a company, to work as an agent, and the truth is that I personally feel a bit of rejection toward that. I don’t like it, I don’t want to,

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