In his first interview after winning the World Cup in Qatar, the Argentinian star confesses that he did not like Van Gaal’s ‘Topo Gigio’ gesture or the Dutch Weghorst’s ‘go there’.
They were expected to know the contents of Leo Messi’s first interview since winning the World Cup with Argentina and he did not disappoint. In TyC Sports, the PSG player looked back at the competition in Qatar and especially the grand final or, as he himself said, the day that everything changed.
“I always thank God. I knew he would give me a World Cup, I don’t know, I felt it. Fortunately, what we dreamed about so much happened. Fortunately, it finally happened. From that day everything changed for me. Now can we say it, “reflected the best player in history. The man from Rosario revealed that he has not seen the final again and that he slept well the night before the game and did nothing special.
“I’ve seen summaries, plays, people parties when we became world champions, but the final itself, the 90 minutes, I haven’t seen them again,” he explained. In addition, he said that a lot has been remembered about Maradona in the past month. “I would have liked that if he hadn’t given me the cup, at least he would have seen all this. I think from above both he and many people who love me were strong not only for this but for everything in general.
Messi remembered the historic moment when he kissed the Jules Rimet trophy. “I saw it there and I couldn’t not do what I did. The cup called to me. He said to me, ‘That’s it, come and get me so you can touch it now’. I saw her beaming there, that she was shocked in that beautiful stadium and I didn’t think about it, I was going to kiss her because I was passing by. I needed it,” he recalls. In this sentence, he described all the festivities after arriving in Argentina as “madness”.
In addition, he confessed that he did not like what happened in the hot cross against the Netherlands, where the tension left many controversial images for history. Among them the gesture of ‘Topo Gigio’ for Van Gaal or his pique with Weghorst. “I didn’t think about it, it came out at this time. Yes, he knew everything they had commented on before the game, what he (Van Gaal) had commented on. Some of my classmates even told me ‘did you see what he said’ on purpose. And well, when that’s all over, I don’t like what I did, I don’t like “going there” and stuff. Anyway, these are moments of great tension, a lot of nervousness and everything is moving very fast. One reacts as one reacts, but nothing was planned. It was giving. I don’t like to let go of that image, but these are things that also happen,” said the Albiceleste captain.
In this interview, the former Barcelona player also showed his most personal side and told how his children and his wife experienced the World Cup. “It has been an incredible month for me and my family. Thiago was crazy. See how he enjoyed it, how he felt it, how he suffered… because after the game with the Netherlands he cried. Or Mateo doing the math after the game we lost against Arabia. Ciro is the one who knows the least about it, but the other two experienced it as fans. Suffer, live life to the fullest, enjoy it. Even when we returned to Paris we missed the days in Qatar. We had a great time,” he recalls.
Source: La Verdad
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