While giving a live interview, Emmanuel Gigliotti surprised by announcing his retirement from football at the age of 38.The forward, whose last experience was in Colón de Santa Fe, which fought to avoid relegation in the Primera Nacional with a squad with several renowned players, put an end to his career in silence, but now decided to communicate it in an interview with Matías Martin in Urbana Play.
“I left football,” he said during the note.“But no one found out,” the driver questioned him.”I’m breaking the news with you. I’m going to get nervous, I might even cry. My wife made a video of me the other day and I almost started crying,” Puma revealed.
“I made the decision to leave football, I had been preparing it all this year with a psychologist. At one point I wanted to do it when I returned from Chile, the Colón thing came out, I started looking at what to do, and then as the year went by I decided that I’m not going to play anymore,” he explained how he gradually hung up his boots.
At that moment, the base of the screen appeared with the legend “soccer player”, which shocked Gigliotti.”It’s the truth, when a friend asks me, I tell them that I don’t know if I’m happy with the decision, but I do know that I’m not sad. I’m calm. And I made the decision, for my ego, when I still had opportunities. They kept calling me. Physically I felt good, my knees and ankles weren’t broken,” he confessed.
Last season, he scored seven goals in 31 games with Sabalero.ElAnimal – another of his nicknames – built a career from the bottom.He burned the nets in Lamadrid, in the Promotion, before making the jump to Argentinos Juniors.It was in All Boys where he finished exploding -21 conquests-.
From there he went through Atlético Tucumán, Novara in Italy and San Lorenzo – where he was a vital piece to maintain the category.In his first stage in Colón he scored 23 goals and it was his springboard to Boca Juniors, where he had an interesting start. He also inflated the net 23 times, but was marked by the penalty saved by Marcelo Barovero in the match against River Plate for the 2014 Copa Sudamericana, in which he ended up becoming the Millionaire.
Then he emigrated to China and returned to the country to defend the Independiente jersey, where he added 27 shouts and won the Copa Sudamericana and the Suruga Bank.
Toluca and León of Mexico, Nacional of Uruguay and Unión La Calera also enjoyed its power.Today, his objective is to stay linked to the ball, but from another place.”I’m a technician. I want to direct, I’m preparing, because I consider it to be like a carnage and you have to be well prepared for that,” he said.
I don’t have the coaching staff assembled because I’m still developing my idea.In fact, I do not rule out the possibility of, to gain experience, working with someone,” he added about his plans, which will no longer include his own goals, which already arouse the nostalgia of those who celebrated them.
