Josep Carreras: “Messi has been the best in history, and for now”

Joseph Carrerastenor and president of Josep Carreras Foundation against Leukemiais the main protagonist of a new edition of ‘Foros de Vanguardia’, the last in 2024, organized this Tuesday afternoon in MGS Auditorium in Barcelona. In the presence of an audience that included, among others, the editor of Godó Group and count of Godó, don Javier Godó; Ana Godó and the director of Mundo Deportivo, Santi Nolla, Joseph Carreras He gave an extensive review of his career and spoke about the disease he suffered almost 40 years ago, in a fun and entertaining interview they conducted. Ramon Rovira, Màrius Carol and Maricel Chavarria.

At the end of the event, Carreras received a surprise related to his other great passion: Barça. He went to the stage Charlie Rexach, former player of Barça of the 70s and Cruyff’s second on the bench in Barça who won first European Cup of Barcelona club in Wembley. Both had to decipher the images that were projected on the screen and in which teams from different periods in Barça’s history appeared. Carreras, like Rexach, knows them all, except for the team that played in the old field of Les Cortes. “My father was afraid of avalanches and he didn’t take us, so I listened to the games on the radio and I didn’t think too much about the players,” the tenor reasoned. Of course, as soon as the picture of Leo Messi showing off the Barça shirt in the Bernabéu stands appeared, the work of our teammate Pep Morata, career He didn’t hesitate for a moment. “This is the best moment in the history of Barça, the most magical,” reflected the tenor, always proud of his Barça and his native Catalonia. “Messi has been the best in history, and right now,” he added. An opinion shared by Charlie Rexach. “He’s the best because no one has done what he’s done for a long time. He’s the one with the most goals, the one with the most passes, the one with the most Ballon d’Ors…” detailed Rexach.

The anecdote of Rexach’s 0-5

About the picture that came out of Barça of Cruyff player who won the Bernabeu for 0-5, Charlie He explained that “that day Sadurní didn’t play in goal because he woke up dizzy and that’s why Mora played.”

Regarding his career, Carreras explained that “one has to always be faithful to one’s identity. My profession has to be vocational, just like yours as a journalist. And then, I have a great family, my life has been happy, with moments of great gem, in all aspects, not only my privilege has been professional,” explained Carreras, who even in difficult moments of his illness tried to be positive. “In the next room at the Seattle hospital there was a two-year-old child, I got the disease when I was 40,” he said, indicating that he was lucky enough to live a long time. “Perhaps the happiest moment was the return from Seattle, after undergoing surgery, and the reunion in Barcelona, ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ doctor who cured him. “”I was 40 years old and, at that moment, when I was in Seattle, of course I thought it was the end. “I think about my children, and selfishly, whether I can continue my career,” he added.

Carreras, who explained that the person who had the most influence on him was “Nelson Mandela”, whom he met at a concert he gave in Pretoria with Luciano Pavarotti and Plácido Domingo, recalled an anecdote with an Italian tenor, and defended Domingo on the sexual allegations you received. “Before a concert in San Francisco, Pavarotti called me by phone at three in the morning and told me to go to his room: ‘What’s going on? I asked him, come upstairs,’ he replied.” “He opened the door and told me to dismantle the food that was there and eat. We ate salami and drank Lambrusco. I don’t know how the concert turned out,” he laughed. Regarding Plácido, he said that “he has never been investigated or tried, I have never seen him do anything wrong.”