“I couldn’t believe I was so close to a piece of history. He is a charming person who resorts to any means to seduce you.  It is said that he started off with twelve men and three rifles in the Sierra Maestra mountains, and now I know why he won: he is a man of ironclad convictions. Fidel Castro is a personality impossible to forget. He is a living history. I defend soccer as much as Fidel defends his people.”