“I was scared when I first met and that’s why I arrived worried at that meeting. As I say this, I also assure you that I did not like it when they offered him a contract of only five months, but later I understood that there was time. The merit of the election belongs to Tapia, not mine,” Menotti clarified, in a report to the Noticias Argentinas agency.
However, he clarified: “In the first meeting I had with Tapia, where we still did not have a coach, there were some words that made me think that we were on the right track. He told me ´We have to get people back with the national team´. That phrase led me to lunch with the current coaching staff of the National Team and I heard the same thing. That’s when I realized we were on the right track.”
Menotti, 82, and for a long time a sort of counterpart to Carlos Bilardo (“lyrical” versus “laboratory” soccer), is currently an adviser on national team issues.
Regarding the suspension of the match against Brazil, due to Qualifiers, which was interrupted shortly after it began, due to irregularities in the control of Covid, he said that it was “a success” since Argentina “You have to save your energy to compete in the World Cup.”
Finally, the coordinator had words of praise for Messi, about whom he said that “even if he wants to play bad, he can’t. It’s the only thing Messi can’t do: play badly”, to add that he “always” expects “the best” and ponder: “In this National Team commitment is guaranteed for their game”.
Menotti also compared the management of Claudio Tapia with that of Julio Grondona, when he himself was the coach of the National Team. “The Grondona that I knew, who managed Independiente, had the humility of the neighborhood and the other Grondona was devoured by success. Tapia has everything: it has a neighborhood, it has a streethas the ability to understand, often hidden, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t have character”.
Source: Ambito
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