“Maligno” Torres argued about Gonzalo Peillat: “He needs to be beaten”

The Lions fell in the quarter-finals of the Olympic Games against Germany, in a match in which the “Hacha” – naturalized German since 2020 – He emphatically celebrated the goal which he scored for the team with which he won the gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

This act raised much controversy, and Peillat was accused of being a traitor by many of his former compatriots. and also earned a wave of insults on social media.

One of the characters who came out to speak out about this was the cyclist José Torres Gil, better known as “El Maligno”, who in dialogue with America TV He was asked about Peillat’s attitude and said: “I heard very little, like he became a German and celebrated in the face of the Argentines.“And between the humor and seriousness that represents the people of Cordoba, “Maligno” was forceful: “We have to hit him, ha.”

The Gonzalo Peillat controversy

Peillat, 31, resigned from the Argentine national team in 2019 due to disagreements with the management of hockey in the country. Faced with this situation, Germany offered him to represent his team while he was playing for Manheimer HC.

In the match that sealed the elimination of the Lions from Paris 2024, Peillat not only wore the German shirt, but also scored one of the goals, celebrating it with an effusiveness that many considered inappropriate, added to the subsequent statements.

“Argentina is a very football-loving country and I think they relate everything to that side. If I have to say something, they would have stood on the same side when they knew that everything was wrong. And they didn’t.“, Peillat said of the country.

“You have to keep a cool head and move forward. In the end, it’s my life. If you like it, fine, and if you don’t, sorry… As Maradona said, let them keep sucking it“, he challenged at the end.