My favourite piece of technology

My favourite piece of technology is not something electronic, mechanical or very complex, it is very simple: The goalkeeper gloves. They were created by soviet goalkeeper Lev Yashin (the best in his position in the history of football) during their first years as football player, being the first goalkeeper who weared that kind of gloves.

Lev Yashin with their gloves

The reason why goalkeepers wear them is because they protect the hands from injuries and also from extreme weathers, mainly cold ones (Lev Yashin played his entire career in Soviet Union, where the temperatures are usually under 0° C)

My father bought me my first gloves when I was a little kid. Some years ago I bought a new pair of gloves that I used in the school. I still use them when I play a match with my friends here in Santiago, or with my family in Puerto Varas and Valdivia.

I like it because they allow me to play better and protect me from injuries on my fingers (I like to play guitar, so I really need my fingers…). My life wouldn’t be very different without goalkeeper gloves, just would be a little bit harder to play football.

Why did I choose this career?

Public administration

It was so hard to choose a career and where study it, but finally I chose Public Administration at Universidad de Chile, because I always wanted to help people, and this career will allow me to do it, solving public problems in education, health, quality of life, etc.

Also the Public administration is a multidisciplinary career, which includes topics as administration, economy, history,  political science, etc.

Finally I decided to study Public administration because my other options were not too good as a I tought, as sociology or anthropology which have a very reduced laboral camp.

I’d like to work in the government, maybe here in Santiago, but in the future in the south of the country, in the zone of Puerto Varas.

When I was a child, my dream was to be a football player, a wrestler or a Power Ranger.

When I was a child, I wanted to be a wrestler

My auto biography: Who am I?

This is me and a prehistoric creature

“Who am I?” is a very hard question which can be answered by the existentialism, but I will do it in a easier way.

My name is Vicente Díaz Arteaga. I was born in Puerto Varas, a southern chilean city in 1996. My parents are Marisol and Edgardo and I have a teen brother called Renato.

I studied all my life at Colegio Felmer Niklitschek in Puerto Varas and now I’m studying Public Administration at Universidad de Chile.

In my free time I like to play the bass with my heavy metal band “Bersek”, also to play football (my favorite positions are goalkeeper and centerback”) and practice wrestling. I like to read too, my favorite writers are Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, Horacio Quiroga, Arthur Conan Doyle.