Josep Manuel Pinto, the football goalkeeper who triumphs in music and jumps rope

BarcelonaIn 2014, José Manuel Pinto played his last match as a footballer for Barça. The Andalusian goalkeeper, born in El Puerto de Santa María in 1975, won a lot of titles in the blaugrana goal, even though he didn't play more than thirty matches because he was usually Víctor Valdés's substitute. A decade later, Pinto doesn't stand still. Five years ago, he announced the birth of P13Fit, a project that unites his two great passions: sport and music. "I thought the best idea was to merge them," he explains. The project consists of an ideal training method "for all types of people where you have a good time," as you jump rope while following a pattern of exercises and movements to the rhythm of music.

Pinto has promoted the idea by acting as a monitor himself in videos that have gone viral on social media. Now you see him dressed as a dinosaur, now he jumps to the rhythm of flamenco, or now he gathers hundreds of people to jump for more than 48 hours straight.

Pinto, who is very active on social media, where he has millions of followers while improvising joking videos, still works as a music producer with his company Wahin Makinaciones. In fact, in 2016 he won a Latin Grammy in the category of best flamenco album, as he participated in the recording of the album "Love me as I am, by Niña Pastori. In addition to producing, she also continues to release her songs. The latest, Why?, has just premiered. In this topic, he takes the opportunity to make a bit of a joke, recalling that famous press conference by José Mourinho from the era when Barça won everything. He even imitates him. Just now that Mourinho has returned to Madrid.