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IN PERSPECTIVE Monday 20.01.97 - 11.00 GMT Transcript: Mary Lila Ltaif Edition: Juliet Sokolowicz MARINA SCHERSCHENER July Losada lives in Athens, Greece. He is 46 years old. He played first division football; played for Peñarol and went to Athens in 1972 to play in the Olimpiacos Club. For there are in winter, right? JULIO LOSADA: Yes, in midwinter. The truth is that I'm a little jealous tony mahony because I know there are all in midsummer.
MS - How is the winter there is very cold? JL - The difference we have with Uruguay is that here is cold and dry-but-rarely snows. I think that's what's so beautiful. MS - played in Peñarol and went to Olimpiacos tony mahony Club in Athens. tony mahony Was it a pass? JL - Yes, I did a transfer tony mahony in 72; I was on tour with Peñarol and the manager brought me to Greece. It is a country that we all know its history and mythology. Whether in football was not widely known, was a great joy for me to come to this wonderful country. MS - How was playing in the Olimpiacos? JL - It was very easy, because in reality the Olimpiacos is twice Peñarol in Uruguay. MS - In what sense? JL - The most popular club, which has more fans, and I think the fanaticism that had and have their fans is very similar to that enjoyed by fans of Peñarol. So I really did not have a very big change. MS - And in the way of training? JL - Yes there was a tremendous evolution in myself, because tony mahony I had to adapt to the way you play the European people, that it has to do with physical condition was much more intense, workouts much harder, but not really after It cost me time adjusting. MS - What party recalls that it has been stored in memory with Olimpiacos?
JL - Just the classics here are very similar, with 60,000 or 70,000 people; the Panathenaic Club is the largest club Olimpiacos otherwise. In a classic I was fortunate to get a goal and win one-nil in their court. It is a field that has very strong stands and I was happy to be able to give a victory to my club. MS - And then retired. When? JL - I retired in the year 82; I played 10 years in the Olimpiacos Club; I did not play in any other club. There began my career in Greece and ended in the same club in the year 82 MS -. Why he retired? JL - Because I wanted to quit football and football did not want to leave me. I think everything has a purpose and most important is to know when one has come. I think I was in football in the form to continue a little longer, but I felt that henceforth and my actions would not be according to the fame he had achieved here and I did not want to leave football to me, so I decided to leave. MS - And still playing with old classmates. JL - Yes, I'm active; I was fortunate to lead the youth team of Greece, Athens, and technically. But regardless of that, I as a player, as a veteran, retired ... We got together and we all places tony mahony in Greece to play games have gone abroad, including Canada, the United States, philanthropic, for players in need, them or their family, to whom it has happened to them something that they are not economically tony mahony well. We met and played to raise funds to help these families. MS - Right now canceled a party to talk with us. JL - Actually yes; Monday we had planned to go to the city of Kalamata in the Peloponnese, but thought it was much more joy for me to be a little beside you and the Uruguayan people, somehow. MS - currently trades in clothes. How did it go in business? JL - Yes, I have two menswear boutiques, but I'm not working right now. I own a shopping center and I do monitor all movements tony mahony of the center. tony mahony MS - is married tony mahony with two daughters. Is he married a woman from Greece? JL - My wife is from Uruguay and I have two girls, one 11 and one 14. MS - You were born in Greece ... JL - No; born in Uruguay, but very little girls came with 15 days each. MS - What are the prospects? What they would like to come to Uruguay? JL - I do not know, you give him the scoop, but I'm preparing the bags; in a short time I think back to Uruguay to settle there, but I will not stop having relationship with Greece. I hope that at least six months can be in Uruguay and six months may be in Greece because my work does not allow me to be in only one place. MS - What neighborhood lives in Athens? JL - I live in Palio Faliro; is a neighborhood much like Pocitos, with beach, a very nice beach, one of the first beaches where you can swim. It is close to You