The night before the final
“The night before I was very calm, I slept very well. Throughout the World Cup I was very relaxed, I felt that we were fine, that I was fine, that we were doing everything to make it happen. I was very calm. I was able to sleep well.”
“With Antonela we continue to do what we did throughout the World Cup: we talked before going to sleep but without touching much on the game or anything special. We did the same routine every day before the games.”
The “That’s it” dedicated to his family when the final ended
“It meant that that’s it, that it was over. To her, to my family, after so much time, after so much suffering. Because there were times when I suffered a lot with the National Team. Many disappointments, lost finals. Always having been so close and that never happens. I had received a lot of criticism of all colors for a long time, and I know that my family suffered the same or more than me. “
“And well, winning the World Cup was like closing the cycle… we won the Copa América, the World Cup. That’s it. There’s nothing left, it’s over.”
The moment in which Montiel kicked the last penalty
“It’s hard to explain what I felt at that moment. Many things cross your mind and at the same time nothing, it’s like you’re gone, enjoying yourself. You can’t believe that we finally got it. You say that’s it, it’s over, it was given to me. I achieved everything with the National Team, as I always dreamed of. It was to close my career in a unique way. I never imagined it would be this way, reaching that moment was the best”.
The moment that kissed the World Cup
“I saw her there and I couldn’t not do what I did. The Cup called me, she told me ‘come and grab me, now you can touch me’. I saw her there, shining in that beautiful stadium, and I didn’t think about it.”
The celebrations in the country and the caravan in the micro
“It was beautiful to come back that way. It was a long trip. We arrived at Ezeiza and it was full of people. I slept for one or two hours, got up and there were already people at the Obelisk around five or six in the morning. I realized that It was going to be crazy and it was. You see the happiness of the people, big and small, it was inexplicable. The best of all was how the people behaved, because there were five million people and nothing happened, what could have happened because The people on the bridges were crazy, bursting. Someone who wanted to jump into the bus… Crazy.”
The explanation of the “Topo Gigio” to Van Gaal
“I didn’t think about it, it came out at the moment. I did know everything they had commented before the game, what he (Van Gaal) had commented. Even some of my teammates told me ‘You saw what he said’, by the way. And Well, when all that ends, I don’t like what I did, I don’t like the ‘go there’ and all that. One reacts the way he reacts, but nothing was planned. It went on. I don’t like to leave that image but they are things that happen too”.
Source: Ambito
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