Ramiro Conti is 12 years old, he lives in Mendoza and his story is moving because of what it tells, but above all because how do you tell it. With a genuine passion for football and a disarming sensitivity, this boy found in communication a place to express yourself despite certain stones that life put in his path.
Hoy, with more than 52 thousand followers on TikTok and an Instagram account that he was about to lose forever, Rami is much more than a boy who talks about football: he is an example of tenderness, perseverance and love for what he does.
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“A few years ago I started watching football, I got hooked until My dad took me to the field to see Godoy Cruz and I started to like him more and more.“, he tells TN with a smile so big that it can even be heard during the telephone interview. That time, without knowing it, he began the path that would lead him to become a small figure of football analysis on social networks.
Between the court, TikTok and a story of resilience. (Video: Ramiro Conti)
One day, almost like a game, he decided to upload a video to TikTok commenting on a game. The response was immediate. The followers began to multiply and his clear, respectful and passionate way of talking about sport It made him a recognized voice among those who love baseball.
your brother Gonzalo Contijournalist and narrator, was a key inspiration: “He He united his passion for football and communicationand something similar happened to me,” says Ramiro.
The fake account and the Bizarrap gesture
In the midst of public growth an unexpected blow appeared. Someone created an Instagram account under his name and started replicating its content.
That account began to add followers, while Ramiro I didn’t know who was behind I didn’t even have a way to access it. What seemed like just another injustice in the digital world ended up becoming a story of unexpected solidarity.
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In one of the publications of that fake account, Bizarrap commented: “Great Rami”. That’s when the boy decided write to him privately and clarify the situation: “Biza, I don’t own that account and someone is using my material.” The music producer’s response was immediate and moving: he promised him that he would help him.
“For a month we talked every day with Bizarrap,” Ramiro said excitedly. “He told me that I was harassing the owner of the account to give it to me, I couldn’t do that to a boy.”
Bizarrap even proposed an unusual gesture to the creator of the fake account: a video dedicated to his family and the promise not to reveal his identity in exchange for returning the profile.
Bizarrap’s conversation with the creator of the fake account. (Photos: Courtesy of the Conti family)
Finally, yesterday, Ramiro recovered his Instagram account. He did it at the best moment: while he is intensely experiencing the run-up to the World Cup and plans to cover each National Team match with the same emotion with which one day he stepped onto the Godoy Cruz field for the first time.
There is something about Ramiro that is disarming. Far from anger or anger, when talking about the young man who stole his account, he said with total sincerity: “Maybe the guy who made the fake account was pretty cool.“His look is not one of reproach, but one of understanding. Of a kindness that seems intact, despite everything.
“My parents support me in everything and admire me“, he states proudly. And that support is not minor.
Ramiro with his brother and his father. (Photo: courtesy of the Conti family)
Gabriel, his father, told TN that Ramiro is in oncological treatment since the age of two due to a diagnosis of the presence of nodules in the brain.
He was hospitalized on several occasions and, although today he is stable, must take daily medication: one pill in the morning and another at night. He can do almost everything, but not high impact sports. He also had a gastric button as part of his treatment.
Football from another place
Ramiro comes from a family of professional players, and the desire for football is marked in him almost like a mandate. However, his body didn’t always respond the way he wanted. At school he was bullied because he did not have the same skills as his classmates..
“There are still some who carry him because he has no eyebrows due to the medication,” his father said with pain and pride at the same time.
But far from giving up, Rami found another way to live his passion: talk about football, analyze it, feel it from a place different from that imposed by the logic of competition. Today, his voice is heard. His friends support him, his followers grow, and his story inspires.
“I want to meet Bizarrap in person“he confesses, still with latent emotion. But perhaps, without knowing it, he has already achieved something even bigger: showing that love for what you do can get the ball rolling, even if it is in a different way.
