Yes, My Name is Florentino Pérez Del Barsa This Was the 'false' Trolling

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The New York Times published this Friday a report on the restrictions due to the pandemic in Europe: "With the increase in the virus in Europe, the resistance to new restrictions also grows," it was titled. The piece was Image Manipulation Service signed from London, but inside the text there were some statements from a Madrid restorer. His name, surprisingly, was "Florentino Pérez del Barsa". Multiple screenshots went viral on Twitter and various media made their pieces of the alleged trolling. How is there going to be someone in Spain with that name? Exactly, there isn't, but almost. “My name is Florentino Pérez. My second surname is Rato. But my commercial name is Florentino Pérez del Barsa”. The reason is simple: Mr. Florentino Pérez has the El Aliño restaurant in the Chamberí neighborhood of Madrid, but he is from Barça. “Being Florentino Pérez,everyone comes giving me a hard time and I tell them

'Yes, yes, but wait a minute, I'm from Barsa'. There is an impressive mess mounted with that, ”he explains to EL PAÍS. This combination of fondness for the Barça club and the coincidence with the president of Real Madrid led him years ago to create his commercial name. That trade name is what he told Raphael Minder, a correspondent for the New York Times in Spain, when he visited the restaurant last week. Minder stopped by Pérez's premises to ask him about the restrictions and the virus for the article they were preparing from London. When he finished he asked her his name. And Florentino Pérez del Barsa told him. "When he told me his name, I asked him: really? Isn't that a joke?" explains Minder. "And he showed me his card. For this type of reports I do not usually ask for the DNI. Besides,he told me in front of other workers.

I even showed him my notebook to see how I had written it. Let's see, Pérez is the most common surname in Spain and Barsa. .. well, just like there is from the Forest and others, it could be, ”he adds. When it came out and Spanish readers found the name, nobody thought of anything other than a legendary trolling. If it wasn't t a fake, I voted to find that man and make him a statue – Alejandro Benites October 11, 2020 "Well, no, I haven't taken the man for a ride," says Florentino Pérez. "He called me worried at night , that he was in the networks and I told him that nothing was happening, calm down, nothing is happening,” he adds. Minder logically feared that they had slipped the absurd joke on the foreigner.This newspaper contacted Ben Smith, a media critic for the New York Times. Smith asked and said the reporter had a business card with the name on it. So it was.