Paco Casal

Paco Casal (born Francisco Casal) is a Uruguayan entrepreneur.

Emerged as a football agent, Casal quickly acquired total relevance in the market of his country. He owns the company Tenfield, and the television channel GolTV.

History

Born in São Paulo, with only seven months of age, Casal moved to Montevideo with his family. He was ball boy of the Estadio Centenario and according to his own rating, a "mediocre" footballer, who in 1968 joined the training divisions of the Defensor Sporting, at the age of 19 he was transferred to Atlético Madrid and later transferred to Racing de Santander.

Representative of footballers

In 1980, while still a player of Vasco, Casal was wounded, and at the same time he received the opportunity that would change his life: his friend (footballer) Juan Ramon Carrasco asks to be represented by him in a negotiation. He would start a successful career as a representative of players. In the end of the 1980s he was the representative of the best players in the country (among them, Carlos Aguilera, Ruben Sosa, Enzo Francescoli, Hugo De Leon and Nelson Gutierrez). In the 1990s, Casal had almost a monopoly of representation of Uruguayan players, since "everybody wanted to be represented by Paco".

Paco

Paco is a Spanish nickname for Francisco. Another nickname for Francisco is Pancho.

One theory says that the nickname has its origins in Saint Francis of Assisi, who was the father of the Franciscan order. His name was written, in Latin, by the order as Pater Communitatis (Father of the community); hence, "Paco" was obtained by taking the first syllable of each word.. Another possibility is it comes from little children's defective pronunciation of their name as "Paquico".

Sometimes people with the name Francisco are also called Kiko. However, this nickname is more commonly used for Federico, Ricardo, or Enrique.

Paco is also a slang term for cocaine paste.

People with the nickname Paco

Paco (film)

Paco is a 2009 Argentine drama film written and directed by Diego Rafecas, an Argentinian film director. The film was shot in Buenos Aires and South Africa.

Plot

The film is named after the protagonist Francisco Black aka "Paco" (Tomás Fonzi), a college student who starts using cocaine paste, a cocaine byproduct known as "paco".

Son of a senator, Francisco falls in love with a cleaning worker. He follows her into Buenos Aires' underworld only to find that his girlfriend has committed suicide after accepting to prostitute herself in exchange for drugs. Seeking revenge, Francisco places a bomb in the drug factory murdering several innocents. As a result of being accused of terrorism charges, his mother uses his influences to try to exculpate him, but she is forced to confine him in a detox clinic, where Francisco finds a bunch of lost souls.

Reviews

Variety has called the film «an emotive character-driven rehab drama with a strong ensemble cast».

References

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Paco (disambiguation)

Paco is a nickname for the Spanish name Francisco.

Paco may also refer to:

See also