Nicolás Massú recordó lo complejo que fue combinar estudios con el tenis.
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00:00We are with Estefano, we are with Nicolás Massú
00:02and the truth is that we are very happy because we are going to start classifying history.
00:06How was your day at school, Nicolás, the truth?
00:08With the grades, not so bad, but with the behavior it was a devil.
00:14But you also put an extra pressure that perhaps not so many sports children have,
00:18but you had to comply with the heavy grades because if you did not comply with the grades,
00:22you would not have permission to play tennis.
00:25Yes, well, the truth is that in the basic quarter,
00:29when I started to take training a little more seriously and everything,
00:33obviously it was complicated to have good grades.
00:36So I lowered my performance every week and my grandfather told me,
00:39I had won the option to go to Europe for the first time because I had qualified,
00:43I had won the right on the court, let's say.
00:46So young?
00:47Yes, well, because at that age I started to leave, I was 11 years old.
00:51And in the end, well, I didn't do well that year and I couldn't go.
00:56They cut you off?
00:57They cut me off.
00:58So you don't go to Europe for the grades?
01:00No, and they were all the others except me, so it was very hard.
01:03But that helped me to have a responsibility or a different character.
01:10And well, the other year I had all the blue grades, well, I could travel.
01:14Nico, beautiful hair, but let's be clear, I'm going to get into the conversation.
01:18Now that we're old, now that we're grown up,
01:22can you explain to me what happened with the class book?
01:27I'm going to summarize it.
01:28But give me the context, please. Do you know this story, Gustaf?
01:31Of course not.
01:32Of course not.
01:33Let's see, I think this story has never been told well,
01:36but I'm going to try to, well, it's long, so I'm going to try to summarize it as much as I can.
01:40I went to another school after Maccai that was below my house.
01:43Below, literally?
01:45Below, below.
01:46Five meters.
01:47Five meters.
01:48San Patricio, San Patricio.
01:49I went in at eight, I got in at five, I got in at eight.
01:51So you lived above the school, right?
01:53Of course, I lived in the courtyard from the window of my room.
01:55Perfect.
01:56So the owner of the school was the mother of one of my big brother's best friends.
02:00So there was closeness.
02:02Familiarity.
02:03Of course.
02:04And that school, Maccai is all about men.
02:05So when I got to that school, it was mixed.
02:07In the end it was a little shy because I was 12, 13 years old.
02:10You're just in that year, you're not talking.
02:13The first day was very hard.
02:15And I met one of my great friends, Eduardo, who lived outside the country for many years.
02:22So he came from Santiago and also had more experience.
02:25He had more experience.
02:26I came traveling the world.
02:28So we were a little more, maybe mentally a little more mature than the age we normally had.
02:35And we behaved badly.
02:37So we already had, I don't know how many negative notes.
02:41So when I completed a sheet, they kicked us out.
02:43We had completed one and a half.
02:45They had forgiven us so many times.
02:47So the head teacher arrived the next day and had noticed the day before.
02:51So the next day they were going to kick us out, both of us.
02:53And you were ready to go to school.
02:55Yes, I was ready.
02:57There was no possibility that we would stay.
02:59So we, with my friend and another friend, made the textbooks disappear.
03:05From our course and two more.
03:07Two more?
03:10So there would be no more suspicions.
03:12So there would be no more suspicions.
03:14So in the end...
03:16Can you tell us how you made them disappear?
03:18We went to play football in the afternoon.
03:20And suddenly we were there in the afternoon.
03:22There was a guard.
03:24So we started to hit the ball.
03:26And we knew that the textbook was there.
03:28It was next to us.
03:30So we hit a couple of...
03:32We kicked the ball over there.
03:34We realized that everything was quiet.
03:36I came in, I took one out.
03:38And then we went to Reñaca.
03:40And we disappeared.
03:42And at that time...
03:44The textbook.
03:46There was nothing online.
03:48There was nothing online.
03:50This was a thing to keep.
03:52Hey, I only tell this here on TV so that no one knows.
03:56Because I still meet people from school to this day.
04:00And I say, I didn't go.
04:02It was Eduardo.
04:04And what happened next?
04:07They called the police.
04:09I was one block away.
04:11Because I had to turn around.
04:13I remember that the school inspector grabbed me.
04:15And how did they find out that it was you?
04:17I always said that I didn't go.
04:19Some of them knew.
04:21Did Eduardo confess in the end?
04:23No, I don't think so.
04:25You said, here I die on the wheel.
04:27So they grabbed me and took me like this.
04:29And I went into the apartment.
04:31My parents were upstairs.
04:33So I grew up.
04:35They started to ask me why.
04:37And I said, no, I didn't go.
04:39I didn't go, I didn't go, I didn't go.
04:41Always.
04:43It was a problem because my brother's friend's mother
04:45was the owner.
04:47I put her in trouble.
04:49So it became a family issue.
04:51Totally.
04:53But I was 12 years old.
04:55And you continued in school, right?
04:57No, outside too.
04:59It was useless.
05:01And then I changed to another school.
05:04I finished high school.
05:06I could play tennis.
05:08I was 14, 15 years old.
05:10I was a little older.
05:12Between 12 and 13, I was very bad at sports.
05:14Well, it's also an age to be bad at sports.
05:16It's the age when you're defining things.
05:18What do you think, dear Stefano,
05:20when you hear this story?
05:22Imagine, when I joined Macay.
05:24I was 10 and 14 years older than my brother.
05:26And both were like that.
05:28So I really joined much later.
05:30So I arrived.
05:32Another human Masu.
05:34But you were there.
05:36But it was the opposite.
05:38Because I grew up alone.
05:40In the background of Nicolás Potenciaga and Jorge Andrés.
05:42So I was calm.
05:44And then I made my own path.
05:46What do you mean?
05:48Look, I don't know how many Masu
05:50have gone through Macay School.
05:52I mean, imagine.
05:54Thousands of years.
05:56The only one who didn't go to that school was me.