Transcript · Spanish → English

Personal Journey to Represent Argentina

Why do they call you Kiki?

Because when I was little they said Kiki, Kiki a lot,

Kiki, and my parents gave it to me as a nickname.

You're Argentine but you were born in Haiti?

How did you get to Argentina? What happened? What did they tell you?

I don't remember much, I was nine months old

when I came here, but from what my parents tell me,

they had already done, before the earthquake happened, they had already done all the paperwork,

everything. Oh, it was from before.

Right, and then this earthquake happens and for them it was a shock,

because not being able to communicate, not being able to know how I was,

everything was very complicated, but luckily I was one of the few

kids that nothing happened to in that orphanage, in the earthquake.

I was in a virtual math class,

I got a message from my physical trainer and it said congratulations, there were two messages,

one at the top that I didn't see, and the 'congratulations'.

I thought, 'weird,' I left it there, and continued with the class.

And suddenly they were telling me, a lot of messages started coming, my friends, 'congratulations, buddy, you really deserve it.'

I opened the message from my physical trainer and,

like, it said AFA, and at first, you know, I was kind of in class,

I couldn't use my phone much. And I misread it, because I read Ramos-Francisco, I said, 'no, they made a mistake.'

But, like, when I read it right, I couldn't believe it, you know, I stopped the class,

I ran to tell my parents, we hugged, you know, everything was so beautiful.

No, it's crazy, it's crazy, the facilities are very, very nice,

the pitches, just being there was, like, a dream for me, you know, representing Argentina.

So, so yeah, everything was very nice, luckily.

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Original transcript (Spanish)

¿Por qué dicen Kiki? Porque de chiquito decían mucho Kiki, Kiki, Kiki y mis papás me lo pusieron de apodo. ¿Sos argentino pero naciste en Haití? ¿Cómo llegaste a Argentina? ¿Qué pasó? ¿Qué te contaron?

Yo no me acuerdo mucho, tenía nueve meses cuando vine para acá, pero por lo que me dicen mis papás, ya habían hecho, antes de que pasara el terremoto, ya habían hecho todos los papeles, todo. Ah, era de antes. Claro, y pasa esto del terremoto y para ellos fue un flash,

porque al no poder comunicarte, no poder saber cómo estoy, todo muy complicado, pero por suerte fui uno de los pocos chicos que no les pasó nada en ese orfanato, en el terremoto. Yo estaba en una clase matemática, virtual, me llegaba un mensaje de mi programador físico y me ponía felicidades, había dos mensajes,

uno arriba que no lo veía y el felicidades. Yo dije, raro, lo dejé ahí, seguí con la clase. Y de repente me decían, empezaban muchos mensajes, mis amigos, felicitaciones, el amigo te lo remereces. Entro al mensaje de mi preparador físico y, tipo, decía AFA, y al principio, viste, yo estaba medio que en la clase,

no podía usar mucho el celular. Y leí mal, porque leí Ramos-Francisco, dije, no, se equivocaron. Pero, tipo, cuando lo leí bien, no lo podía creer, viste, paré la clase, me fui corriendo a contarle a mis papás, nos abrazamos, viste, todo muy hermoso. No, es una locura, es una locura, muy, muy lindo el predio, las canchas, ya estar ahí, ya era, tipo, un sueño para mí, viste, representar a Argentina.

Así que, así que nada, todo muy lindo, por suerte.

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