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Earlier this week Spotify announced the star signing of Antonio Daimielto star in new sports podcast «2+1», together with the two youtubers from «Drafteados». Although everything seemed to indicate that the announcement would be very well received by basketball fans, a sector of them accused Daimiel of having “betrayed” the members of the program that he left just a few months ago, “Hanging on the hoop.”
Daimiel, who would begin his career commenting on the NBA next to the unforgettable Andres Montes in Channel +, has been the most authoritative voice in our country about American basketball for two decades. Although at the beginning of his career, he worked on The Day After and other soccer programs on the pay network, it was in basketball that he found his place to collaborate with a multitude of media.
However, last summer, after his recent fatherhood, he made the decision to leave one of the many professional responsibilities he had. Among the victims was the YouTube program sponsored by Endesa “Hanging from the ring”, where he had been working for seven years with the former Real Madrid player Iturriaga and Siro Lopez. They were precisely the first to react to his unexpected signing by Spotify. Both, along with the tweeter and communicator Pablo Lolaso, although they joked comparing this signing with that of Mirotic for Barça, did acknowledge that they did not expect Daimiel to make this decision, also leaving with the protagonists of the channel with which they compete in audiences.
In addition, they blamed him for leaving the program, claiming that he needed to rest and have less workload, to now go to the competition. But Daimiel had no qualms about answering them, first tweeting during the live show of “Colgados del aro”, Ironically pointing out “the style” of his former teammates, who spent 20 minutes of the program analyzing his signing. This was the reaction to the video that the program rescued in which Daimiel assured that he would never sign for Drafteados, although it is not exactly what he has done. On Twitter he has dedicated several posts to explaining to his followers that his signing by Spotify has no connection with his departure from the Endesa program. The journalist even jokes with users who compare his change of program with a partner’s infidelity, calling it “horns”.
But what are you saying? What does Colgados have to do with this new project on Spotify?
– Antoni Daimiel (@ADaimiel) February 7, 2022
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But hours later Daimiel would also intervene live Siro López’s Twitch channel, where he explained in more detail his professional decision. The journalist alleged that Spotify’s offer seemed irrefutable to him, given that he stole very little time a week, compared to the long direct ones that “Colgados del aro” broadcasts. Although in networks many followers of the program accuse Daimiel of leaving his companions “hanging”, the truth is that a few months ago They were reinforced with two female sports figures such as María Gómez and Olga Viza.
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