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Ramiro funes mori interview9/18/2023 ![]() ![]() “He never got a contract with FA Dallas and we wanted to play professionally, so we went back to Argentina when we were 16 years old.”īoth imagined they would one day move on from Argentina to Europe and both did, just not together. “Rogelio won and nothing happened,” he says. The prize for winning was supposed to be an MLS contract, though it did not work out quite like that. Along with his identical twin brother, Rogelio, he gained a degree of fame in the United States by taking part in a football reality show built around young players trying to break into the big time. When I screamed I heard myself, and so did the rest of the ground.”įunes Mori speaks in fluent English, a result of spending his teenage years in Texas, where his father moved to work as a mechanic. So in the last derby it felt like it was 45,000 people versus 11. For that reason, they don’t allow away supporters at games any more, there is too much trouble and fighting. “People are crazy about it, and sadly there have been fatalities. “What you have to understand about football in Argentina is that it is life and death,” he explains. An experience, he says, that allowed him to remain reasonably calm about making his Goodison debut against Chelsea then appearing in the Merseyside derby. This 24-year-old is not just a veteran of the superclásico derby between River Plate and Boca Juniors, he actually scored the winning goal for River Plate in his last one. The chance may have come slightly sooner than he expected or wished but it is unlikely to faze him. ![]() Whatever they choose to call him Everton supporters had better get used to their new defensive recruit, because with Phil Jagielka out for two months Funes Mori is in for a prolonged run in the first team. ![]()
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