On February 6, 74-year-old former Chilean Sebastián Piñera was killed in an accident. He, like former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and former Argentine Macri, is also a footballer.
Piñera is a sports enthusiast who once played football matches with former Morales Morales of Bolivia. After leaving office, Piñera still drives himself from time to time, and he wants to keep enough driving time records to keep his driver's license valid.
At the time of the Feb. 6 accident, Piñera had just gone to southern Chile to visit an old friend of the entrepreneur. After lunch, he and his 3 entourage left in ***, which witnesses said had problems shortly after take-off and ended up falling into the lake. All 3 people on the same plane survived, and they had already put on life jackets before falling into the lake and swam to the shore by themselves. According to their statement, at the critical moment, Piñera, who was driving ***, did not unbuckle his seat belt and put on a life jacket, saying that he had to continue to control *** to avoid it completely losing control and injuring other passengers who were escaping. Eventually, Chilean rescuers fished out Piñera's body from the bottom of the lake at a depth of 40 meters.
Sebastián Piñera was born into a family, and his eldest brother was a royal economic adviser to General Pinochet of Chile. Piñera returned to Chile shortly after completing his studies at Harvard University in the United States, and took advantage of his family's investment convenience to skyrocket his wealth, and before his death he was one of the ten richest people in Chile.
Chilean football is not much in the spotlight around the world. Piñera's most famous football story is probably the 2010 attempt to publicly snub Argentine football coach Bielsa. Previously, Bielsa was very respectful and intimate when he met Michelle Bachelet, the left-wing before Piñera took office, but when he returned from South Africa in the 2010 World Cup, Piñera received the team, Bielsa obviously avoided shaking hands with him, and then shook hands on another occasion, but Bielsa's attitude was very cold, and he almost couldn't wait to withdraw his hand.
It was popular at the time that Bielsa hated the close past between the Pinochet family and Pinochet, a history that Piñera could not erase, despite his own insistence that he was an opponent of Pinochet. Bielsa himself did not explain, and a more convincing version appeared on the ** later: Piñera wanted to get rid of the then president of the Chilean Football Federation, Mene Nichols. This is a journalist-turned-president of the Football Association, a former press officer for the Chilean national team and FIFA, who opposes the total privatization of the club, which is a huge disagreement between him and Piñera. Later, Mine Nichols ceased to be president of the Chilean Football Federation, and Bielsa did resign.
In fact, Piñera's real football story is not the handshake turmoil, but the fact that he used football to rise to the top and was successfully elected **, which is almost a Chilean copy of Berlusconi. Piñera lost his first campaign in 2005, and he has a younger brother, Miguel, who is a pop, and Miguel advises: "You need to invest in Colo Collo." ”
Colo Colo is the greatest club in the history of Chilean football and a national team. But Piñera is a die-hard fan of the Universidad del Catholic University club in Chile, and he doesn't want to betray Universidad del Catholic. His younger brother Miguel analyzed the value of the votes of the three giants in Chile: "You must know that the Catholic University brings you 10 votes, the University of Chile 30 votes, and Colo Colo 50 votes. ”
Colo Colo was in debt crisis at the time, and in 2006 Piñera became the majority shareholder of the company that owns the club, and he quickly brought the team out of trouble and regained its glory. In 2010, Piñera participated for the second time, and this time it was indeed a victory, and it was a historic victory, as he became the first democratically elected right-wing in Chile after Pinochet's rule.
Piñera is a ** that has sparked a huge controversy. He has shown excellent management and organizational skills in dealing with emergencies such as **, mining accidents, and the new crown epidemic, and Chile's economy has shown the envy of other countries in South America. Piñera has a strategic vision, like the new crown epidemic just broke out in February 2020, many countries in Europe and the United States are indifferent, Piñera has sent a delegation to China to learn about epidemic prevention.
On the other hand, Chileans believe that his economic course has deepened the problem of a sharp divide between rich and poor in Chilean society, with wealth concentrated in the hands of a very small number of people. When he was re-elected in 2018, Piñera had already sold the Colo Colo club. At the end of 2019, a large-scale social outbreak broke out in Chile, and fans of Colo Colocolo, Universidad de Chile, and Universidad de Catholic, who were at odds with each other, gathered against Piñera and sang an insulting song to him: "Piñera, x your mother, you are a murderer, Pinochet's egg." ”
In general, Chilean society is nowhere near as good as Brazil, Argentina or the United States. After Piñera's tragic death, Chilean society mourned him extensively, and the left-wing Boric praised Piñera as a true defender of democracy. All kinds of resentment before have now turned into smoke and clouds.