The footballer marginalized from the national team revealed details of how the team experienced the elimination of Brazil, Scaloni’s challenge and “Dibu” Martínez’s save against France.
Alejandro “Papu” Gomez35 years old, marginalized from the argentine national team and suspended two years for a case of positive dopingrecalled the preview of the quarterfinals against Netherlands. Before your match, Brazil faced Croatia and Gomez He told how the team experienced it.
“We were going by bus to the stadium, Brazil’s goal. OK, Brazil wins easily; now we have to win. We knew that against Brazil it was the only game we could lose, that it was the game. With the others we had confidence to win; but Brazil Obviously, it’s Brazil.”‘Papu’ began his story.
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“We arrived at the stadium, Croatia scored. We celebrated. We were all already changed for the warm-up, and the penalties. We celebrated the penalty shootout that Croatia won as if it were a game that we won”revealed the footballer.
As other players already said, that celebration prior to the game against Netherlands It bothered the coach a lot Lionel Scaloniwho challenged them and even insulted them.
“Scaloni came and insulted us. He said ‘What the f… are you doing? Let’s concentrate f…, we have to go play’. And we were all hugging, because we had so much confidence because we knew that against Holland it was impossible to lose.”he assured Gomez.
“We knew that outside of Brazil we were more or less on our way to the final”‘Papu’ concluded his story.
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Among other anecdotes, the former San Lorenzo also remembered the impressive save of the “Dibu” Martínez in the last minute of added time against France.
“It was completely crazy. When I saw the ball go past Otamendi I thought: ‘It’s over’. The French bench was also ready to celebrate. But then he made that save… Sensational”hill.
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