Vol. 26 No. 277 (2021)

Emilio Gutiérrez: tribute to an MVP
We met playing basketball, in the kids category, back in the early '70s. In those years we did not play in the same team. From there we found ourselves at different crossroads of life's roads. We were united by an interest in basketball and to try a social understanding of sport.
Emilio Gutiérrez was a fellow traveler, an honest and dedicated teacher who did everything possible to be where he believed he would be most valuable to others and what made him happy. Along this path, he worked as a teacher trainer in Physical Education, in clubs as a coach and gained invaluable experience incorporating the sport in prison. He was passionate about basketball and affirmed its pedagogical value, which added to the fact that he was a pioneer of 3x3, led him to being Director of School Basketball.
He also approached the history of sport from his perspective as a sociologist. Thus, we put together a team in the adventure of vindicating the 1950 Basketball World Cup champions, interviewing Jorge Canavesi, Ricardo González and Omar Monza, players who were sanctioned for more than a decade by the Liberating Revolution that overthrew Perón and declared them professionals, excluding them from the competition, along with more than 300 high-performance athletes who had had outstanding performances in those years.
A few days before his coronavirus was detected, we were imagining some possible tributes for León Najnudel, on the corner of Villa Crespo where the bar “El Dandy” used to work. And then no more, he was hospitalized and died a few days later. Those of us who were close, we felt that we lost the MVP, that the plague left our star player out of the game.
Tulio Guterman, Director - June 2021

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