Scaloni sticks out his chest: “There was a time when the National Team was not so respected”

Scaloni sticks out his chest: “There was a time when the National Team was not so respected”

“There was a time when the National Team was not so respected. For me it was strange, because any player wants to play in the National Team, it is the maximum for a footballer to play at least one game. It is something unique”Scaloni pointed out in the Podcast called “La Selecta”.

And I add: “My greatest virtue was always being a positive guy in the groups. When I had to speak, I spoke. I was never worried about speaking frankly and directly. Before the first game I was not very calm, but we knew very well what we wanted and we aimed. The objective was to add players and for everyone to feel that they could play in the National Team”.

Regarding his relationship with the campus, he stated: “I am only a soccer coach and nothing more than that, in a country like Argentina you can get confused, but we in the coaching staff are clear about it. We always speak from the role of training the players and having exemplary behavior, as it should be when they enter the premises. Afterwards, each one has their life and we no longer enter there”.

“I was in many groups in the National Team and there was never a bad atmosphere, it was always spectacular. What happens is that when you win, everything always seems to be better than before. In the National Team that played the 2015 and 2016 finals or the World Cup 2014, the atmosphere will have been the same as this”Scaloni added.

In that line, he continued: “It is evident that the atmosphere of the group is very good. If the one next to you is more than a colleague, surely it hurts you more that things go wrong or that they make a mistake, then you double your efforts. If the vibe is good, the negative things like a goal against, an expulsion or a missed goal, you take them in another way. That helps.”.

In addition, he stated: “The good thing about this team is that it knows that at some point you have to suffer. There are moments of difficulties. There is no National Team that dominates 70-80% of the game, but there are teams that intend to take the expense of the game. There are moments that you have to entrench yourself, feel that we are in difficulty. That is what we try to tell the players and that we get along quite well “.

Regarding the process, he considered: “A bit of merit is that after the 2019 Copa América, our work was continued and it was not changed. Not always when you don’t win is a failure, in this society I know that it is difficult to understand”.

“It doesn’t make much sense to continually think about the World Cup. There are so many games left, so many days that many things can happen. You have to keep looking at the players who are and those who can fight for a place. We already have the rivals marked, we look at them, but you can’t spend three months looking at them constantly”closed the technician of the albiceleste cast.

Source: Ambito

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