“For A I don’t exist, for Nacional B I don’t work, in B I’m a good player, in C I’m very good and in D I’m the best defender in terms of football. Dario Dubois (2/2/1972-3/17/2008), a football worker who played for several teams in the larger suburbs of Buenos Aires. Be sure that he is not noticed and does not have any popularity if he does not distinguish himself from other players by painting his face in a dark way. Those who know him say Darío is different. Personally and in football.
Tribute to ‘black metal’
In the great amalgamation of the clubs of Greater Buenos Aires where dreams are left behind as we grow older and the only value is leaving the dirt with dignity, Dubois He might be one of those people who, with a bit of luck, gets into a club with the possibility of promotion.
The first sign that he is different is his war paint to intimidate. Although, not only to surprise rivals but to pay tribute to a type of music that he admires. He said, “I listen to ‘black metal’, very rotten, mind-numbing music and I want to play like that, this is who I am.”
A beautiful day, wearing a shirt Midland Railway Athletic Clubhe thought it would be a good idea to paint his face to play in a match. “Why not de-dramatize what is a simple game, no matter how much competition there is?” he wondered. He asked the referee for permission to use the mirror in his locker room and to use black and white makeup, relating to the aesthetics of his taste in music. And so he came to play. He would repeat this for 13 games until AFA (Football Association of Argentina), warned by this unusual personal motivation, issued a regulation prohibiting this practice.
One card and 1500 pesos
His career as a footballer spanned between 1994 and 2005. He played Yupanqui, Lugano, Midland, Deportivo Riestra, Laferrere, Cañuelas, Sacachispas and Victoriano Arenas. Everyone in Greater Buenos Aires. He played 146 games and scored 13 goals, an incredible figure for a defender. your brother Alejandra Anna explains that for Darius “He loved football as a sport, but he did not feel an identity with the institutions that represented it, he trained it because he had free physical training.” Dubois He intended to play until he was 40, but he always declared that his main passion was music (he played in several bands and was a sound operator) and that football was a way to make a living.
What angered him the most was the corruption of the system in the world of football, of which he was the direct protagonist when, playing for MidlandEditthe referee sent him off for a double yellow card and when he gave him the second card, 1,500 pesos fell out of his pocket. He chased the referee all over the field and had to be restrained by his teammates to prevent him from getting worse and receiving a heavier penalty. In 1995, Dubois defended the shirt Lugano. A local company offered the club to put advertising on the shirt in exchange for 40 pesos for each player for each victory. After 3 consecutive successes the money did not appear and Dubois He thought of wearing a black ribbon to cover the sponsoring brand. But he forgot. He then decided to collect mud from the playing field and spread it on the part of his shirt where the advertiser appeared. Even though the club wanted to suspend him for that, everyone stayed there. And the sponsor showed up and paid.
Injury, retirement and tragic death
In 2005, Darío was forced to retire from football. A torn cruciate ligament put him out of circulation and the club where he was, Victorian Arenasdid not want to bear the costs of the operation and the treatment he needed to recover. But his end came at the beginning of March 2008, when he left his job as a sound operator in a place in the suburbs of Buenos Aires where rock bands played. They tried to attack him and shot him with one bullet in his leg and another in his stomach, and after suffering for almost two weeks, he died at the age of 37.
“I’m a clown who paints my face, but kills for my shirt,” he once said. Beyond the odd or weird, Dario Dubois He left his heart on every court to the rhythm of ‘black metal’.
Source: La Verdad
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