A video appeared on the networks that generated a stir: it shows Javier Milei, current Argentine president, as a goalkeeper in a university futsal match in the 1990s. The clip was shared by the Marketing and MBA graduate Javier López, who published the following tweet on June 7, 2024: “Finding. Carlitos Solitro and @JMilei played together in the ideal and @CsdYupanqui of Lugano between 81 and 83. They won three cups. In 90 Javo studied Economics at @ubeduar and Colo Public Accountant at @USalvador (and crack at Ferro) and they faced each other. “Colo left football and is an accountant, Javo too and he is president of Argentina.”
The video shows Milei, during his university years, trying to defend the goal in a match between the University of Belgrano – where he studied and graduated as an economist – and the University of Salvador. He receives two goals and ends up on the floor, without reaction. The scene, rescued from an old archive, circulated again at a time when the president is facing questions about his political management and his insistence on seeking support in the United States.
On social media, users were quick to draw parallels between that young man who had fallen to the ground and the current Milei, who in recent weeks has multiplied gestures towards Washington. From his visit to the White House to the praise he shared with Donald Trump, the president tries to consolidate his bond with the North American power in the midst of the local economic crisis. Comparisons abound: some see in that university image an involuntary reflection of a leadership that, between praise and tension, seems to rely more on foreign diplomacy than on internal politics.
The archive, reactivated by digital memory, not only shows a forgotten sporting period, but also brings into discussion the way in which Milei constructs her public figure. What began as a simple football curiosity ended up becoming, for many, a metaphor for a president who seeks to sustain himself in the midst of imbalance.
