Guillermo Salatino is a Sports journalist, he is one of the fifth best tennis journalists in the world. He decided to play tennis because when he was a child, Guillermo played tennis in a club with his father. He worked in Radio Continental, Radio El Mundo and Radio Mitre. Also, in the newspaper La Prensa. Now he is working in the radio, but he is not in the studio. Guillermo makes the interviews in his house through a phone call. He created and is the vice president of the commission of the ITF (International Tennis Federation).
When he was younger, Guillermo worked in the company of his father at the customs. But as he was not happy with his job, he decided to study journalism. “I studied Sports journalism because is something that makes me happy. Working on something that you like and enjoying is not a job, it's a game”, expressed Salatino.
“Sports are vital for life: the ones that play sports have a healthy body; physically and mentally. It teaches you to respect the law, as in sports you have to respect the rules of the game and in the daily life it is the same. As we know, there are two types of sports: The Individual sports and the team sports, both of them are not complete because in one you learn something that in another one is wrong. The individual one teaches you to defend yourself, but makes you selfish because you have to play one vs one. If you play an individual sport, such as tennis, you have to learn to neglect that selfishness in daily life”, advised Salatino. The team one helps you to take out the self - interested and makes you share time with friends and this is necessary for life, to have friends.
When we talk about professional athletes, the sport is not a game it's a job and more demanding for your body and dangerous to your life. “All the professional ones that are my friends end the career with a broken bone or ligament”, the sports journalist told us.
When you dedicate yourself to sports, you have to prevent injuries because if you do not retire, you will not be completely healthy. The difference between the professional and the amateur is that the professional uses the sport as a job and it is also demanding for his/her body, and the amateur is playing sports for fun and for the good health of his/her body.
The secret of being a great and famous journalist such as him is that you have to be informed about the theme that you are going to talk about, you need to read every day to have a great vocabulary, and also you have to learn different languages, but first you need to know to talk perfectly well your own language. “It is ugly for the audience to listen a columnist talking in a bad way”, confessed Salatino. Not all the journalists know all the information of all the sports, so the trick is to specialize and talk about a sport that you like and one that you are informed.
Guillermo worked in radio and television, but he prefers radio. The reasons are that radio is more natural and you also have to give more information to the people that are listening to you to create to them an image of the theme that the journalist is talking about. Another cause is that in television your image is shown and that makes you a famous person and he is not free. Guillermo can ́t go to a cinema or to a restaurant because he is recognized everywhere.
The sport journalist wrote his books as an accident. As he knows a lot about tennis, a friend told him that if he didn't write a book before he died, he would be selfish because he knows many tennis theories and if he didn't share them with the world, he would be selfish. He wrote “40 – 0” because he wanted to write his life. It was called “40 – 0” since Guillermo had been working as a journalist for 40 years.
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