And from wall to wall you can hear it in the property, so you must have heard me go to the bathroom, get up and turn on the TV. I don’t know why I had finished with the Cup that night, I was in my room, they had left it for me. I had her next to me, Rodrigo appeared, I stood like that and he told me: ‘Come and I’ll take your photo’ Rodri is used to taking photos. ha”, he recalled in dialogue with Olé.
Di María and his wife’s message before the final
“I sent the message to him because I had felt it in the previous Copa América that we won, that same night. Knowing that I was not playing because Nico (González) was playing and out of nowhere Leo (for Scaloni) had the idea of starting me with Brazil and I found out in the morning. I had sent him a similar message, with Italy I did the same and now for the final. With France I knew two hours before the game that I was playing, nor did I imagine that I was going to do it on the left. But the day before I wrote to him: ‘Go and enjoy. Tomorrow we are going to be champions.’ That’s how I felt,” he expressed in an interview with Olé.
Tagliafico and the visit of his Asian fans to the concentration
“These guys have been following me for a long time. They send me messages all the time. And the guy, I remember, works in China and said: “I’m quitting my job and I’m going to Qatar to see you.” He went to all the games and one day I He said, “Nico. I’ll be at the training door. If you can go out, at some point.”
I said, “Okay. Let me see. This training is calm and I’ll be able to finish it sooner.” I sent them the location and tried to do it as secretly as possible. But, of course, when I arrived and they saw me there, he started: “Nico! Nico! Nico!”
That’s when it started to go viral. But it’s gross. That makes you realize the magnitude of where football and passion go. People from China. Sometimes I receive letters from different countries around the world. One does not realize what it generates in another person and today we are going to be even more under the magnifying glass. “So one has to take advantage of that moment to realize that it can be positive for people and be an example for children or people from other countries.”
The Palo Santo Band
“Before the World Cup, I had four days of fever and a very sore throat. I called Marito, the prop man, and asked him to go buy Palo Santo and incense burners to light. We went to a university and a lot of people passed by, so We didn’t know what energy was in that space. We lit palo santo in order to cleanse the energies that could be in that place and not contaminate us. We started lighting it in the room and ended up doing it with full concentration. We woke up early to sit on the balcony to sunbathe and light a palo santo to give thanks, while we visualized the goal: the World Cup,” Lisandro Martínez told TyC Sports.
“Dibu” Martínez’s yogurt
“Throughout the entire cup I had a lot of confidence for the games. In the middle of the World Cup I was talking to Marito and Juan in the props and I told them: ‘Today I’ll score three yogurts and tomorrow they won’t score a goal’. The next day everyone wanted that I would eat three yogurts again. It ended up becoming a cabal. During the World Cup we ate a thousand roasts and yogurts. It was funny because Lucho, the nutritionist, always made us soy yogurt to maintain our diet. See if I was going to eat That before playing in a world final. How were we going to eat that? Inedible! Every time I put out the soy yogurt, I sent him to buy firm yogurt at a supermarket in Qatar, ha,” said ‘Dibu’ in AFA Estudio .
The incredible cabal that Julián Álvarez and Chiqui Tapia had in Qatar
“My cabal throughout the World Cup was to play trick with Chiqui. The trick had to be two days before the game, at night, and in Chiqui’s room. I played with Lautaro and Enzo, and Chiqui with Dani Ale , our hairdresser, and with the leader Luciano Nakis. The cabal began after the game against Arabia and lasted until the end. Before each trick match we take a photo to remember.”
“Another of the conversations we had with Chiqui and Enzo was before the technical talk before each game. When we went down in the elevator before each technical talk, Chiqui was there to greet me and Enzo. And if for some reason reason we didn’t agree, he made us come back to greet each other and comply with the cabal,” Julián told TyC Sports.
Chucky: the cursed boy who brought luck
“Chucky is a mascot that has a lot to do with the Copa América and the beginning of this cycle. It turns out that one day in 2021, I entered the props and saw a Chucky doll that was missing an arm and a leg. The strange thing is Nobody knew how he got there, so I asked: Who brought that damn doll? And Juan Cruz, the prop man, answered me: ‘Boss, that doll brings luck. They call my son Chucky and he gave me this doll when we were there.’ isolated from our families in the Copa América, so that I remember him and have him everywhere.
“So, we made a promise to see if that doll was lucky: the seven of us who were present at that talk promised to get Chucky tattooed if we were champions of the Copa América. After winning in Brazil, I bought my Chucky doll and I take it to everyone sides,” said Claudio Tapia in AFA Estudio.
Darkness and candles in the preview
“There is a very good and very nice anecdote from that night. We almost always did the same thing: after dinner we would get together to play cards and around one in the morning we would go to sleep. When we finished doing the usual thing, with Gio “Lo Celso and Rodri De Paul decided to go to the prop shop to see if any of our teammates or any prop man were left and it was empty.”
“The three of us sat in an armchair, we played music, Gio lit a candle and said ‘let’s make a wish’, surely the wish of the three of us was the same and after that we knew that it was impossible for us to lose that final,” said Leandro. Paredes, in TyC Sports.
De Paul and his trick team with Messi and Paredes
“I teamed up with Lea (Paredes) and Leo (Messi). We had become champions of tricks in the Copa América and we had to defend the title. We started playing and when the crosses occur, all the spicy teams are left in the same side of the key. In the quarterfinals we played against Ota and Fideo’s team, who we already knew by heart because we played every day. It was as if we had to play in the round of 16 of the World Cup with France. And well, in that match We were left out. The trick championship continued and the team of the prop man, one of the goalkeeper coaches and a leader emerged as champions. When the tournament ends, we approached Lea and Leo, and we proposed to them to hold a Super Cup between the trick champions of the Copa América, us, and those from the World Cup, them.A669 ns And since they came half enlarged, they accepted. We gave them a terrible beating,” he told AFA Estudio.
Brazil’s post-elimination party
Minutes before the match against the Netherlands, the Argentine National Team was happy for Brazil’s elimination and Alejandro Gómez remembered that moment.
“We left the bus, Brazil 1, Croatia 0. We said Well, that’s it, Brazil wins, that’s it and we faced each other… We said we won, we’re going with Brazil in the semis, which was going to be the hardest,” the footballer began. of Seville on that December 9 in which, in the second round, Argentina eliminated the Netherlands. “When we arrived at the Croatia goal stadium and there we said ‘well that’s it, it’s ours, if Brazil loses it’s ours’. We had to warm up, change and everyone watching the penalties. When Croatia qualifies we started celebrating as if we had we won. We said that’s it, this is ours, we won today and we are going to the final. And that’s how it was. That was the pivotal match because we knew it was the push, that if we won that match we would be in the final,” he said in D Sports.
De Paul said that the celebration did not go down well with Scaloni: “When Brazil missed the last penalty we celebrated and Scaloni came in, he insulted us, he screwed us up. We told him ‘no, well, Leo, sorry’, maybe he thought we were going to leave relaxed.” “It touched us a little with that,” he said on TyC Sports.
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