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UTD UNSCRIPTED: EXCEPTIONAL STORIES, BRILLIANTLY TOLD

But not me.

I was about to get in my car to set off for the dinner when Seba stopped me.

“No, no. Come with me,” he said.

At the time, there was talk of me having an offer to leave Argentina and play in Russia, and he wanted to talk to me about it. This was Seba Veron. My hero. Everybody’s hero at Estudiantes.

So I got in his car and we talked. And talked.

The whole way to his house, we chatted. He told me that it was an opportunity for me to grow as a player, as a person, to learn new things and live in a different culture.