Agustín Marquetti and Julita Osendi They returned to the roles that identified them years ago: that of the interviewed baseball player and the interviewing journalist, always waiting for the successes of the former Industriales, who gave so much joy to the Cuban fans.
This time, a graphic testimony of the conversation they had in Miami, was collected on the “Cuba Sports Network” channel of the platform Youtube.
In that talk Marquetti confessed that he felt happy. “In sports I had important moments with Industriales, with the Cuba team, and one of the greatest things that has happened to me is having come to this country.”
And Marquetti's happiness is related to the feeling he has towards the island. “I came in 2010 and I'm going to be 14 years old… This is Cuba for me, I don't know for other people,” he reflected.
The stellar baseball player recalled that after his arrival in the United States in December 2010, the following year, they paid him a tribute that had never been done before in his life.
“Not because of the money they gave me, because they gave me more than 30,000 dollars…, but the love of the people, because unfortunately when one retires he is no longer the same. But hey, the people still love you and this is full of Cubans. “Some like the ball more, others less, but I feel very good here,” he said.
There was no lack of space to talk about the home run, perhaps one of the most famous in the National Series, against pitcher Rogelio García from Pinar del Río and that gave a desired title at that time to the Industriales.
“For me that was big because I gave the home run to Rogelio at 40 years old and it had been 13 years since Industriales had won. That for me is immense, eternal joy,” he added.
However, Marquetti was conservative in the face of the challenge posed by Julita of forming a historic Cuba team.
His answer was not forceful, because “if you make an all-time Cuba team, you don't put Chávez, you don't put Urbano, you don't put Cuevas,” he said, reflecting on teammates of the time with whom he shared memorable moments of sport. Cuban national.
“Each one defends his stage; we consciously played baseball. Here people play for millions. Are these players the same as us? How many of us would have played here?” was his question to compare the past times with the present in world baseball and in the performance of Cuban players.
It was a conversation based on anecdotes, family and sports stories, jokes that revealed the affection that the journalist feels for the baseball player's career.
Marquetti is a figure linked to the development of baseball in Miami, especially with the Cuban players based in that city.
Shortly after his arrival in the City of the Sun He opened a baseball academy with his son Agustín Jr.
In 2022, returned to the island after eight years of absence. On that occasion he said that "being poor there (in the United States) I feel and live as rich, because I compare it with my times here, when I had nothing. Now I am happy, I am living in paradise."
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