After the celebrations in the City of Buenos Aires for obtaining the World Cup in Qatar, ‘Draw’ Martinez He traveled to Mar del Plata to spend time with his family, before leaving for England to rejoin Aston Villa, his team.
The goalkeeper gave a speech on the stage located on the Las Toscas spa, next to a gigantography of him. In addition, the ‘José María Minella’ World Cup stadium will bear his name.
The guard arrived surrounded by a hundred people, who left a space for him to walk to the stage prepared for his tribute and for the speech he would give shortly after.
When he was given the medal as part of the presenter’s tribute, ‘Dibu’ took out the Golden Glove for the Best Goalkeeper of the Qatar 2022 World Cup and raised it above his head to show it to everyone present, with a huge smile on his face. . He also received from the lower boys a flag that said “Draw we love you” and put it like a cloak on his shoulders.
“It is the first time that I see so many people together in the country and especially in Mar del Plata. This third star is not only a source of pride for me, but also for all the boys to have the dream of achieving the fourth one one day”were the words of Martínez towards the little ones who gave him the flag.
After he assured that he “wants to win the fourth”, he was asked where the dance came from in the penalty shootout. The archer replied that he did not imitate “anyone, it was something” natural “.
“That’s something that came to me at the time. In penalties I become strong and I know that they respect me, because they have told me, and when I save the first penalty in a world final, I knew that the other boy was going to I was very nervous. I tried to play him mentally by throwing the ball away, talking to him. And he threw it out, he screwed up everything.”he expressed, about how the shot from the twelve steps that Aurélien Tchouaméni missed was.
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“My dream was to give Leo (Messi) a title in the National Team, like each of these boys. I gave them the Copa América, La Finalissima but my dream as an athlete was to give the best player in the world the World Cup title”assured Martínez about the captain.
Finally, the goalkeeper remembered the coach of the Netherlands, Louis Van Gaal, and his words before the quarterfinal match: “I remember that before the game the Dutch coach criticized our players, our captain (Messi), (Angel) Di María, and that if we went to penalties they would win. And the truth is that he was wrong”.
The story of “Dibu” Martinez
Emiliano “Dibu” Martinez He began playing soccer as a child and at the age of 12 he left Mar del Plata after Miguel Ángel Pepe Santoro opened the doors of Independiente for him.
At the age of 17 he went to England. His first steps were at English Arsenal, which loaned him out to different clubs from the promotion of England and Spainand then, after a serious injury to goalkeeper Bern Leno, he completed the 2019-20 season as a starter for the “Gunners”.
This was the great break in his career since, thanks to his great performances, astonville he finally acquired it for almost 20 million pounds, thus becoming the most expensive Argentine goalkeeper in history. At the same time, he earned the position as starter in the Argentine National Team to raise the Copa América at the Maracana in 2021 and now that of the World in Doha, in Qatar.
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