Joaquín The funny conversation with his wife, Susana
Lo de
Joaquín
(39) is a unique case in Spanish football. Not only because of the way they perform in the field, in the band, the natural habitat of the portuense. But for the love it receives from fans and those who are not. For the joy and grace that characterize him and that make him one of the most charismatic players in memory.
Leisure and professionalism were never incompatible
. Joaquín, the oldest outfield player in La Liga, is the greatest exponent of this. With Betic's extensive video library on YouTube, his football career could be traced, full of
highlights
at the height of the best winger, as well as humorous, hilarious like that of a successful comedian.
Joaquín is married to
Susana Saborido
and together they are the parents of two daughters:
Daniela
, 14, and
Selma
, 10. The marriage took place in 2005 before more than 500 guests in El Puerto de Santa María, his hometown, including the Copa del Rey won a few dates before by Betis.
And it is that
Manuel Ruiz de Lopera
(76), the eccentric and funny character who presided over the club during a long period, wanted to give the title of especially relevant importance by placing it next to the altar of the church of the Virgen de los Milagros.
The priest, Joaquín, Susana and the cup presided over the link and there was no assistant who was left without a photo next to the title.
Joaquín and Susana Saborido with the Copa del Rey on their wedding day, in 2005.
He grew up happily as the youngest of
eight siblings
in a family that lived in a humble three-room apartment with a logical distribution of the rooms: parents, brothers and sisters. Special for him was also his uncle
Raúl, 'Chino',
who was in charge of taking him to training sessions and games in his early days. One of the most difficult moments for the Betis captain was his death at 65, without ever seeing him make his debut in the First Division. When even the speaker of Benito Villamarín - then Manuel Ruiz de Lopera, of course - did not announce it with a greguería:
'the feint and the sprint, Joaquín'
. In football, the worst moment, when
Luis Aragonés
He left him out of the call for Euro 2008 after having been a fixture in his calls, coinciding precisely with the beginning of the triumphal stage of 'La Roja'.
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MANUEL RUIZ DE LOPERA
The anecdotes that circulate around Joaquín sew the character and explain it.
Especially funny, those that have to do with his relationship with
Lopera
, whose role in the wedding has already been told here.
A highly remembered episode was a
Halloween party
-according to the players themselves, they were unaware of the event- in which Lopera appeared while the entire squad enjoyed the party's sofrito feet, full of women. Seeing the president appear, many tried to escape.
Denilson
, the most expensive signing in history at the time and with an eight-year contract, considered jumping out the window. "If he sees me here, he won't pay me," said the Brazilian. Joaquín, like the rest of the squad, received an important reprimand. It was the time "in which
more than the garbage truck came out
", as the player himself recalls.
Lopera, according to the footballer told Bertín in one of his interviews, also gave him a private detective to follow him like a shadow. "Joaquín, stop going out so much. The detective has asked me for a salary increase because he says he has not seen his family for five days," the president told him when he confessed the situation.
But the president who motivated the dressing room with
gift checks
from El Corte Inglés for the wives and renewed the contracts before a replica of
El Gran Poder
in his room, after kissing his feet, the owner of the
dog Hugo
who celebrated the goals in front of the television of the team, also played a trick on the portuense.
Lopera was not amused that he wanted to leave Betis in 2006
. With everything closed with Valencia, the president tangled things up so that Joaquín ended up in Albacete. "Didn't you want to wear white? Well, you're going to go to Albacete [Second Division team] where they have a lot of affection for you," he said. After a lightning step, things were soon arranged and Joaquín enlisted in the Valencian ranks.
'HULIO' AND THE ITALIAN
'Hulio' is the most common nickname used to refer to the footballer.
In addition to a recurring name to refer to someone already extended, housed in the collective memory.
Like everything in his life, it arose from an anecdote.
This time televised on
La Sexta
with Julio Baptista, 'La Bestia', in his time with the Brazilian at Málaga, a team in which he played for two seasons in the megalomaniac project designed by Sheikh Al-Thani.
Asking about his hobbies beyond soccer, Joaquín replied that he also liked tennis. He tried to play sober after the answer but burst out laughing after Baptista did: "He has not played tennis in his life and says tennis." To which Joaquín replied:
"I have not picked up a racket in my life,
Hulio
.
"
The expression also names a clothing brand created by the player himself.
This stage ended in 2013 and he packed his bags for his only experience beyond the Spanish competition: Fiorentina.
In
Florence he
played two seasons and became one of the most beloved footballers by the
Tifosi
.
There they put the artichoke on him after one of his first games and he jumped into the pool.
His macarronic Spanish, his Italian tried, is also a remembered video.
BUSINESS
Joaquín has also been concerned about his heritage and has undertaken various businesses, although some have cost him a headache. This is the case of Chino Seventeen SL, the first company established in 2004 and which ended in 2019 with a conviction for
misappropriation
of its administrator,
Eduardo Fernández Triviño
, in whom he "fully trusted", with absolute powers over the footballer's assets, as declared in court. They broke their friendship relationship in 2007.
The
Provincial Court of Seville
sentenced Fernández Triviño to four years and six months in prison in July 2019 for appropriating
781,736.62 euros
of the footballer's capital, who was also sentenced to jointly reimburse said figure together with his wife, also convicted.
But the Betis captain has also set up other companies.
As
Fenomagen SL
., With registered office in Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz), and which is dedicated to the comprehensive management of image rights, especially those for advertising and sponsorship.
Joaquín also
owns a part of Real Betis Balompié
, his club, of which he owns 2% of the entity's share capital since he paid more than one million euros in 2017.
In addition, Joaquín, on occasion, has expressed the tremendous
illusion that would make him preside over the club
.
The footballer and his family live in a chalet in Simón Verde, an urbanization in
Mairena del Aljarafe
(Seville).
His home was raided in April 2019, while he was playing the Sevillian derby against Sevilla.
Fortunately, they only regretted minor losses and the thieves took "practically nothing".
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