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Paola Rojas has caused controversy on social media and among the Argentine soccer fans after revealing details of an uncomfortable encounter she had with former footballer Diego Armando Maradona a few years ago.
As she recounted in an interview with José Ramón Fernández, the Argentine made an uncomfortable proposal while she was asking him to grant her an interview during the World Cup in Brazil in 2014. What do I say to him? Below, we tell you the details.
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The Mexican journalist recalled that she had done everything possible to get an interview with Maradona in Brazil. Because they were staying at the same hotel during the sporting event, they happened to cross paths several times, but it was during one of those times that Paola managed to evade his security detail, approach him, and ask for a chat.
It is worth mentioning that Paola Rojas and Maradona were in Brazil for the World Cup for work; while the journalist was there on behalf of Televisa, the former player was a commentator for the media outlet Telesur.
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Rojas recalled asking him for an interview, but it never came to fruition because Maradona only agreed if it were done in his room.
“I admire him a lot as a footballer, for what he did for Argentina and Napoli; however, for me, it was a great disappointment,” she pointed out. “It was very difficult to approach Diego Armando Maradona, but we were staying in the same space and so we bumped into each other all the time,” she recalled, adding that their encounter where the interview was being arranged was in an elevator.
“He said to me: ‘I do want to talk to you, but in my room.’ Of course, I stopped insisting; I was no longer interested in doing that interview,” she detailed to José Ramón.
Upon hearing the response, Paola Rojas decided not to go ahead with the chat since she interpreted the response as harassment.
And she added: “He probably wouldn't have been alone in his room; he was shielded, he always had someone stuck to him. He wanted to isolate himself from people; he was so popular that people followed him everywhere. They couldn't go to a restaurant.”
The journalist said she had not told the uncomfortable anecdote until now and did not do so to tarnish the legacy he left in Argentine football and his international popularity as one of the world champions in Mexico '86, but to make visible the conflicts that women go through in the industry.
“It is part of the problems that we women face in this effort to do journalism and share what is happening.”
[Publicidad]