Carlos Sobera (Barakaldo, 60 years old) is the most mediatic Basque presenter, And there are a few: Arguiñano, Iñaki López, Ramontxu, Igartiburu, Emma García, Jorge Fernández … First Dates is his legendary program and he has started with The right price.
Tell me this losing finals is over!
I hope the jinx is over, but I don't know what to tell you. In the last ones, I don't understand what happened to us, that we went out into the field stunned. On day 3 we were a different team from the one that won the Super Cup against Madrid and Barça. I hope the curse ends now.
Did it hurt more to lose to Real? Even his partner Emma García threw some pike at him.
It did hurt, but not so much because of the fact that it was Real, which also, because we cannot lose that rivalry, a pique that is one of the healthiest things in football and in LaLiga in general. Apart from that, of the two finals that was the most affordable for Athletic. So the feeling we all have is that we have missed a great opportunity. Without disrespecting Real, which is a great team and, in fact, better than us in the League. We saw it as our great opportunity and against Barça we all assumed it as more difficult.
They go 37 years without lifting a great title. I was a kid.
I was 24 years old, I won't tell you more, I was with a theater group that has already disappeared.
What is it that he is also a member of Atlético?
My team, emotionally speaking, is Athletic, the one that I have nurtured since I was little. The historical alignments of Iribar, Sáez Igartua, Los Rojo, Arieta, Uriarte … how would I tell you. I know. It is true that I like football and, since I spend a lot of time in Madrid and Real Madrid is my wife's team and Atlético, my eldest daughter's, I have joined both of them and so I go with one and the other to the field What do you think?
That always comes out winning, if it does not do it with one, with another.
Well, not always, not always.
With whom would you like to have a 'First Dates', but in football terms?
I like them all! Athletic has players who, in addition to enchanting me, inspire me great respect. The other day when I saw the final against the Real, I took off my hat with the behavior they had. Muniain, Williams, Raúl García, De Marcos, Iñigo, Núñez, Yuri, Yeray, Villalibre how he cried… They are all extraordinary. I am very happy with the team we have on a sporting and human level. They are great guys who can set an example.
La Gabarra, the trumpet of Villalibre … a bit bilbaine, right?
Without bilbainada life has no meaning, damn it. It's the main thing. What are we going to do, put on a large txapela, I wish it were possible to bring the cod casserole, play the trumpet, the trombone, the Gabarra and the 'Gabarrón'… that's what it's all about. That is what makes life happier. If not, of what?
Williams has a clause of 135 million, a lot of money. Which…. ‘The right price’?
Don't touch me, don't screw with me, we've been around for 15 years, every time there's a talented player, he leaves us.
He said that if you have to sign from abroad, that he was even favorable to breaking the philosophy.
I already know that they are going to hang me by the hairs of my armpit, but yes, I love Athletic and its essence, but it is not in our DNA to be eternal seconds because of a sports policy that is very good to maintain and even increase. But we could indulge ourselves. I'm just saying: our team, with Messi and Mbappé, that's it, if I don't ask for more either. But aren't we from Bilbao? It will be for money, milk. We pay for these two and if we do well, another four.
He has a law degree, is an actor and presenter … everyone likes him. If on top of that he played football well, the perfect man.
I stopped playing soccer because I was afraid of getting an Achilles tendon injury. I have played futsal until I was 50 something, I love it, it was the brain of the team, how could it be otherwise being Basque and playing with Madrilenians.
Who is the star of Mediaset: Paquirrín, Rociíto or you?
I am in the caboose, let it be like that, it is convenient not to stand out too much.
Let's talk to Evolé, any 'messages'?
That he does very well. She works hard for interviews and has a tremendous talent for getting great guests. He inspires me a lot of respect and affection. Now, despite all that, pass this message on from me: this Cup is going to be ours and I don't care if you cry or how you wear it.
I'll tell you by raising an eyebrow, although nobody does it like you. Juanra Bonet took her 'Who wants to be a millionaire', but that detail is missing.
That can only happen in Bilbao, I will raise my eyebrow at the same time that Muniain does it with the Cup on Saturday. The two things at the same time. ¡¡¡¡¡Athletic shit in you!