César Menotti was restless . Hurricane template remained concentrated in the hotel to prepare the party the next day, but one of the biggest stars team was not provided. The passage of minutes only increased the concern of Menotti, who led his partner Poncini and asked to accompany him, because he thought he knew where to find Rene Houseman. Bajo Belgrano went to the villa from which came Houseman, and once there they saw that it was contesting a ward sided game, the usual chopped weekends. Menotti was set at the players and saw that among them was not Houseman. Was relieved, but the peace did not last long, how long it took to direct their eyes toward the bench. Houseman was sitting on the bench, Menotti came to him and asked what he did there. René replied: "You saw how he plays on 11!". Houseman Menotti thought he was rebuked for his replacement and not because they were absent from the team's, that the day after a game in First Division to play a pachanga with neighborhood friends. This anecdote, which has Angel Cappa in his wonderful book 'The intimacy of Football "perfectly reflects what has been Houseman, nicknamed' El Loco 'or' West ', a man for whom life has been like football, a game.
Considered one of the best right ends of the history of Argentine soccer, Menotti described him as "a mixture Maradona and Garrincha ", while Charles Babington, another icon of Hurricane, pointed as" the most talented player of all. "This library joined the praise he received from Gypsy Miguel Ángel Juárez:" For me there was never a Style player Houseman. Pele, with all his talent, can not make up in speed and René. It is the only dribbles in the air without touching the floor. Even admiring Pelé, René is most gifted, crazier, more brilliant, more inventor with the ball. "
But the admiration with which the dialogue of his brilliant football, imaginative, straightforward, rapid and destabilizing disappeared when talking about his messy private life. A life hit, enjoyed the most and which has always been as unpredictable as the grass. Houseman, always presumed to be villero and never hid his humble origins, never got familiar with the meaning of the word responsibility. Born in La Banda (Santiago del Estero), moved from child to a village of Bajo Belgrano, Buenos Aires, and say it was precisely this condition which wielded villero makers for not admitting Hikers on the computer. Houseman then directed his steps towards the rival, Defensores de Belgrano. He went on to Hurricane, with whom he was champion of Argentina in 1973 and lived most brilliant era of this club and his own. A full international, participated in the 1974 World Cup and Argentina's triumph in 1978.
In 1980, only 27, began a pilgrimage in the last five seasons of his career that led him to River Plate, Colo Colo of Chile, again Huracán, Independiente, South Africa Amazulu and hikers, the club had rejected and that ended his career.
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left to remember memorable actions on the lawn and a large collection of anecdotes about his way of understanding life. He was a genius of football and the only option was to accept as it was. He never changed, neither do they try, and all that entailed the professionalism never interested him. And the least, discipline. Ensure
concentrations could not stand, much less spend the nights of Friday and Saturday locked in a hotel. They say he escaped to play matches in the neighborhood, but also to party. On one such occasion say it was the hand at a birthday party and returned to the concentration in rather good condition. That day also faced Hurricane River Plate in the morning and afternoon, as usual. No little time to sleep or to recover from the consequences of the 'hard' night, Houseman took to the field and more to play what he did was wandering on the lawn. That was until near the end got the ball, got rid of two plants, perfume and Arctic, and beat Pato Fillol hand in hand. River still had time to tie, but the match was always remembered for the great goal Houseman marked by a nearly party newcomer. Fillol said about it: "I find it frightening that this has happened. Houseman does not speak well and the coaching staff. " René himself later told that after the goal was to convert the injured, requested the change and went straight home to sleep.
That was Houseman, who now, at 55 years old, he is seen as an amateur more in the Hurricane games.
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