2022 will be a year to remember for Giancarlo ‘Flaco’ Granda. The restless narrator from Gol Perú established himself as one of the channel’s most recognizable faces and conquered the networks with his web programs ‘Tiempo Muerto’ and ‘Alma de Mundial’.
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But that hyperactivity that characterizes him has led him to star in funny anecdotes in what has been a short but prolific career on Peruvian television. In dialogue with the Youtube program ‘speak beard’the popular ‘Flaco’ recalled the 3 bravest.
1. The classic blooper
Perhaps the best known story and the one that cannot be missing in all his interviews. “Flaco” was given the golden opportunity of his career, to narrate his first Peruvian soccer classic between Universitario de Deportes and Alianza Lima.
However, the environment and a series of factors led him to commit a blooper that is still remembered to this day. Taking into account that Granda is shortsighted and that the distance from the Monumental transmission booth to the field is very great, the narrator made a mistake that his teammate Diego Rebagliati did not let go unnoticed.
“Darlin Leiton is going to be remembered more for the blooper than for what he did in Alianza Lima. What happens is that I am very nearsighted and at the Monumental the booth is far from the field, so I get as close as I can and therefore I don’t carry paper. When I see a player warming up I think it’s Leiton and it was Arley. When I say: “This game is for Leiton”, Rebagliati will go to me as if to say: “What is this guy talking about?”, commented.
Everything would have happened as a natural error of perception, however, what caused the most strangeness is that Darlin Leeton He wasn’t on the list, so there was no way he was warming up. “You are asking a player who is not called up”, repeated Rebaglliati at the time of the blooper.
2. The ‘fight’ at the Gallardo
Granda is already accustomed to jokes, in fact, sometimes he himself encourages them. But there are some who already cross the line. In this story, “Flaco” narrated one of his first games at the Alberto Gallardo Stadium, where Sporting Cristal plays at home.
That was the first time that Granda almost reacted to a fan’s claim. The journalist could not stand being called “salty” for just doing his job and “patched” the insolent man.
“Once at the Gallardo a guy yelled at me that it was salty because he had lost Cristal. So far I let it go but those around were already getting excited. So I patched it up and told him: “You say that because you’re down there, let’s see, come here and tell me to my face.” In truth, I was not there to fight, I was going to put Mendaña in front (laughs) “recounted.
But the story turned 180 degrees, since the fan wrinkled and did not go up at that moment, but minutes later where he made a strange request. “In the end he did nothing and half an hour later he comes up, tells me that it was all a joke and asks me for a photo. I did not give it to him as disrespectful because he could not have done anything but the 50 that were next to him did “he added.
3. The scolding for greeting his dogs
Granda acknowledges that his style is very natural, when he narrates he behaves as he himself behaves with his friends. But this has caused him some problems. When he narrated for Gol TV, an international network, he had an important game that he should have taken with the utmost seriousness, however, his way of being won over him and he earned a “dose of location.”
“Flamengo was playing, in the final of the Brazil Cup, I was discussing it with Alejandro Vernal. The game was going to be watched by all of Peru, Paolo (Guerrero) was playing, etc. Vernal brought up a list of greetings that never ended and began to send greetings to this one, to this one, and to this one. I tell him: “We have come to socialize, since you greeted everyone, I want to greet Wanda and Benito (their dogs)”, counted.
“Later they told me: “’Flaco’, you’re narrating the final of the Brazil Cup for all of Latin America and you’re greeting your dogs hue…, situate yourself”, but in good spirits”he added.
