“We are going to fight to win the World Cup, because we are in a good moment, we arrived in Qatar after winning the Copa América and the Finalíssima against Italy, we have a strong and consolidated group and the weapons to fight every game. That is why our hope is that of all Argentines, that of always”Di María remarked in the first of a series of interviews carried out by Conmebol before the ecumenical event.
Conmebol launched a new cycle of interviews with South American figures who are going to participate in the Qatar World Cup 2022 and it is called “The Sacred Game”, and that started with Di María and will continue with Lionel Messi, the Uruguayan Federico Valverde and the Brazilian Neymar, among others.
But the man from Rosario made a difference with his supporters, the two Lionels, the captain Messi and the coach Scaloni, who in his last notes stated that winning the World Cup “is very difficult, because there are many candidates” and some considered that they are even ” better than Argentina”.
In fact, Scaloni maintained that for him there are “at least 10 teams in a position to win the World Cup.”
However, “Fideo”, at 34, was especially different from Messi because he also took it for granted that this would be his last World Cup and left no doubt about it.
“A World Cup is coming and it’s something unique. There is immense expectation. The change of coach (Scaloni for Jorge Sampaoli) gave us players peace of mind and some of us made the decision to keep trying and the coach took it in a good way, mixing the youngsters with us, the older ones, and thus he was able to form a beautiful group”he highlighted.
“And to think that leaving the National Team once crossed my mind, but luckily I had my wife nearby to insist that I keep trying, that I not give up. Because at that time my parents told me that I was done, that stop suffering, that everything lived was enough”he remembered.
This last reference was also extended to another that, according to what he said, is the one that persists in the relationship with his mother today and comes from his childhood.
“Always, every time I leave a hotel to play a game, he called my mother to give me her blessing. It’s like going back in time, to my childhood, when she would take me by bike to school or to play and I always wanted luck. Now she does it by phone, but I have to call her yes or yes, at any time, “he revealed.
“And there is also my wife, the one who was always supporting me and supporting me, especially in bad times. The truth is that having such a pillar in my house, especially when I’m not there and she stays with my daughters, doing everything for them , for me it is something fundamental”, appreciated.
The talk took another tour of football, but already in “memories” mode, and in that category he highlighted “the best moments” of his career and “the most remembered goals”.
Regarding the former, he pointed to the “World Cup in Brazil 2014 and then the Copa América that was won in Brazil last year. With a seven-year difference between one and the other, those were the two most important years of my career,” he said.
“And as for the most beautiful goals, which were also the most important because of the instance in which I converted them, there is the one I scored against France for the 1-1 partial in the World Cup in Russia, of course the 1-0 of the final with Brazil, and also the 1-0 win over Nigeria that gave us the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics”, he listed.
From those moments he then jumped into the future, elusive of course, but which he has had in mind to achieve for a long time, although now he does not seem to see it as clearly as before.
“The truth is that for a long time I have had in my head to finish my career at Rosario Central where I started. It is true that nowadays things at the club are not easy, but I support that idea, because I would like to, even if it is for a year just to fully enjoy Argentine football and the team I was born into,” he confessed.
Later, and after talking about his mother, his wife and his daughters, the reference was for his father too, and in this regard he maintained that if he had not been a footballer, “he would have been a charcoal burner like him.”
And in the epilogue of the interview, the ellipse finally arrived that made him coincide with Messi regarding Qatar 2022, perhaps without so much conviction and more attentive to his recent past at PSG.
“When talking about a candidate for the World Cup, France immediately emerges as the last champion (Argentina could cross it prematurely in the round of 16), but it is difficult to expand that list because other important teams such as Germany and Spain seem to be doing well, but as they go through replacement processes with many young people who are arriving, and then you never know what can happen to them in a highly demanding competition like this”, he concluded.
Source: Ambito
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