Benjamin Galindo had plenty of quality and that’s why some teams in Europe looked for him in the mid-80s, including the Atlético de Madrid, as the former player himself revealed in an interview in November 2017, stating that the then president of Chivas, Marcelino García Paniagua, prevented his departure Heading to spain.
The Master arrived at the Sacred Flock for 1986, where he became an idol and lifted a Liga MX title, but in that same year everything could change if the Uruguayan representative, Paco Casal, had achieved his goal of taking him to the country where Sporting de Gijón also wanted it.
“I had the opportunity to go to Europe just when I arrived in Chivas, we played a game against Tecos that we won 5-1 and there was Paco Casal, a promoter, with Don Marcelino (García Paniagua), “he told Herd Leaders.
“And I remember that in that game they said (to Casal): ‘Sold on 8 and 17’, who were Chepo de la Torre and Yayo de la Torre. ‘I want 9’ (said the promoter). In the end he spent eight days begging Don Marce and no. They already present it (to Casal) and I talked with him. Tells me: ‘I want to take you to Sporting de Gijón or Atlético de Madrid, (but) that you can get the pass’ “.
‘BRING YOU TO NEGRETE’
Benjamin Galindo He assured in the same interview that went to speak twice with Marcelino García Paniagua to ask him to let him meet the test floor in Europe, although that was a great frustration.
“I said to him ‘Bring Manolo Negrete’, to anyone to let me go. I said, ‘Let me go, I will sign you blank and I will return to Chivas if I can’t stay in a year,’ “he said.
ALAVÉS ARRIVED AT 31 YEARS OLD
After that frustrated opportunity in 1986, the Master revealed that at 31 years of age and after a Chivas friendly against Alavés in United States, the rival team coach wanted to take it to Spain, but his seniority took its toll.
“You can’t be 31, you are 25 … In the end he told me ‘If you were 25, I would take you’“
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