President of UEFA Alexander Ceferinconsidering that Lionel Messias the captain of the Argentine national team, must call attention to his colleague, Emiliano Martinezfor his actions and behavior after the World Cup final in Qatar 2022.
in the book’Messianic‘, journalists Sebastián Fest, from Argentina, and Alexandre Juillard, from France, include the statements of the Slovenian lawyer about the best player in the last World Cup, in which he claims that “something should have been said I told him to stop doing that, to show respect.”
“I don’t understand that he makes fun of Mbappé”
“In the end, Messi plays all year with -Kylian- Mbappé”, explained the head of sports in reference to the jokes of Dibu Martinez on the French striker: “If you see how he reacts during the penalties… I don’t understand why he makes fun of Mbappé, the puppet thing and things like that. That’s not sportsmanship, it’s primitive and I don’t like it”.
Ceferinhighlighting the “humility” of the Argentine captain, also highlights in that interview the “good job” of the goalkeeper, but believes that “his reactions are primitive.”
About the famous gesture made by the goalkeeper of astonville when he took the award as the best in his position at the Qatar 2022 World Cup and placed it in front of his penis, the UEFA president thought it was “a disgusting thing”.
“Prove you’re not primitive”
“It’s not over yet. You won the World Cup! Show greatness, show that you’re not primitive. You can be a perfect goalkeeper, but if you’re not a good person…”, he added.
In that part of the book, Ceferin expressing his admiration for the football shown by Messi in the last World Cup and asserts that “without him, Argentina still wouldn’t have reached the quarterfinals”.
“When you don’t know what to do on the pitch, you pass the ball to Messi. I’m sure the final ended, which was incredible, that the cup was Messi’s. And in the end it was deserved, Argentina is better than France”, he sums up.
The latest edition of the book “Messianic” (Sudamericana, 2022), an investigation into the life and football career of Leo Messiwas published last week in Spain and the current one in Argentina.
Source: La Verdad
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