Well, this is over.
With those five words, without expressing emotion,
José Ramón de la Morena
arrives
on the
bench of a deserted Metropolitan Wanda after two hours that close 40 years.
Those whose voice was sneaking into the night of the houses to take over a large part of the transistors in Spain with
El Larguero
and now some smartphones with
El Transistor
.
"Who was going to tell me?
40 years".
Didn't you expect to be on the radio for so many years?
No, never, never.
When we started
El Larguero
, Roberto Gómez told me a phrase that has always made us laugh a lot, he asked us why we hadn't named it
El Arbol
until we endured because it would not last long.
It seems that the premonition about who entered the sports writing of Cadena Ser in 1981 was not very aimed, he was 27 years in charge of El Larguero (with a small stoppage due to a departure from tone in the war with José María García) until 2016 and has culminated with its last five in Onda Cero, which at dawn on Wednesday closed from the intestines of the Wanda Metropolitano.
Nor did the CEO of Cadena Ser Augusto Delkader aim the shot well, although he was closer.
“He
told me it was going to last at least 10 years and it seemed like a lot to me
.
In the end there have been 40 and they have been precious ».
And looking back now.
What feeling do you have from all that race?
Satisfaction?
Or would you change some things?
Satisfaction, no doubt, but all the mistakes I made if I could I changed them.
Everything that someone's suffering has meant I would try to remove and, in that, I do ask for forgiveness because I know that some of the things I have done have caused suffering.
I can justify them by saying that I did it looking for truth and purity and that I did not make radio to harm anyone, but I would change them without thinking about it.
This is not the only time that the announcer apologizes neither in his radio life nor on his last night because he also does so in his farewell monologue. "I have tried never to disappoint you [the listener] who has always been there (...)
Finish it since I am caught by the bull of emotion,
" he ends sitting on the Atlético de Madrid shield before the gaze and applause of his eternal producer, Carlos Bustillo, and his team as a whole; the president and CEO of the rojiblanco team, Enrique Cerezo and Miguel Ángel Marín; his family and former footballers of his team such as Abel Resino, Esteban Suárez or José Eulogio Gárate. And it is precisely a question to the mattress myth, after he confessed on the air that
he was the one who turned a 10-year-old boy who was a Real fan into athletic Madrid
, which now returns to De la Morena.
I'm going to repeat the question you asked Gárate, how is life expected when the lights go out?
They just turned off for me, but I'm going to turn on others, life is wonderful while you breathe and those who are with you do it too and it's worth living.
José Ramón de la Morena, together with GárateP.
RR
That is the lesson that De la Morena has learned now far from his great figures of absolute dominance in
El Larguero
and with a son of just a few months who he cradles in his arms in an already almost empty stadium. The reason he has alleged for separating from the microphone: to enjoy it as he had not done with the previous ones. "This is a special night for solidarity and company that I never expected because the night is lonely, there
have been many nights of returning home alone amid fogs, snows, robberies, accidents
..."
And yet he never left the night radio ... It was not the same at the end as at the beginning because now they even took me home, but at the beginning everything happened to me. I never thought that I would have this, I knew that one day I would leave the radio at night because it is very hard and I would have to do it sooner rather than later, but I never thought that I would leave it in such an exciting way and so many years later. After such a long time, don't you feel that vertigo of leaving, missing her and wanting to return? I'm not going to miss her because I'll keep listening to her and I'll do something, I don't know where or how, but I'll do something. Now I don't even want to think about it, I need to disappear and evaporate, enjoy a summer without the pressure that I have had for the last 40 years because of what came after.It is something that I do not want to consider and when September arrives I will begin to shine a light in my head, but it is impossible to separate from something that has been in your life for 40 years, you will understand.
What will come has to do with the José Ramón de la Morena Foundation, focused on bringing sport closer to children since it was born in 2004. «This is my way of giving back everything this life has given me because I always dreamed of being journalist and the dream came true.
I never wanted to be a radiophonist, I was a journalist taking notes, recording,
I never dreamed of doing this radio station, I would have settled for being in a newspaper working
and life gave me much more than what I asked for ».
It gave him the possibility to change the night sports radio, one of the most famous and mythologized wars in this country with José María García and which both regret, or the option of saying goodbye at his club's stadium with his friends.
"It's nice, eh."
And, there, the lambs sang and the wolf rested for the last time.
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