Fernando Schwartz openly confess details of his painful departure from ESPN in 2015. The now analyst of Fox Sports he admits that he made a very serious mistake that cost him his dismissal.
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However, he explains that his decision was preceded by a strong annoyance he had against the company, as he considered that they were not offering him a fair and dignified treatment for his work.
” I made a mistake, I admit it. I was allowed to post in the ‘This’ any ESPN note giving credit. Out of my desperation for the abuse I received at the 2014 World Cup, where I was not credited, I went as a companion to the U.S. reporter. I was in a very bad mood and I made the mistake of posting some ESPN notes and I didn’t give him credit, I was accused of plagiarism, ” he recalled. Fernando in a dialogue with his colleague Toño de Valdés.
” One day the boss Rodolfo Martínez tells me, there was a human resources team … and Rodolfo got into a very bad plan, he told me that he had stolen this and that from me. I was wrong, yes, but I am not a plagiarist of notes because I am a good journalist, ” he added.
He then recounts how his traumatic dismissal was. ” I was broadcasting the Sports Race program from the news center and it was very painful, three hours in the air, and five meters away was the office where my mother was being broken. Five minutes before the end of the program, Armando Benítez, vice-president of ESPN in Mexico, passes by, pats me on the shoulder and says: ‘I’m going to Mexico, you’re fine’. He did it with an evil smile and in half an hour I was already out of ESPN ”.
He thought it was all over
Fernando Schwartz he expressed that his departure from the famous sports chain was bleak and that he even thought that his career as a journalist had come to an end. However, he managed to overcome the hard blow and continued to do what he loves most now Fox Sports.
“It was very hard, I cried, I thought my career was over, but you know me, I fall for three days and I get up again,” said the 61-year-old Mexican reporter.