“I still wonder what Salt Bae is doing walking around with our Cup”

‘Papu’ Gomez spoke in an interview with the Italian program ‘Cronache Di Spogliatoio’ where he recounted some unknown anecdotes that took place in Qatar World Cup, where his team, Argentina, was crowned champion. The Monza football player, who is currently being punished for testing positive in an anti-doping test,

“We will play against Holland and played Brazil-Croatia. We are on the bus going to the stadium, Brazil’s goal. OK, Brazil won easily, now we have to win. We know that against Brazil is our only game We can lose , that This is the game. Together with others we had the confidence to win. We arrived at the stadium, the goal of Croatia. We celebrated. We all changed for the warm-up… and the penalties came. We celebrated the shootout won by Croatia as if it was a match We won, but Scaloni came and shouted at us: ‘What are you doing? Let’s concentrate, fools!’

After the tie, came the penalties. “We will shout ‘Kiricocho’ to all the Dutch, because this is the shout we try to bring bad luck to the rival,” explained Papu. Argentina won and became world champions. “After the final, it was crazy. We were all crying. There was an anecdote that amazed me: we were on the field and there was Salt Bae, the chef who is famous for sprinkling salt. He was on the field. of the game and he “He brought the cup, our cup. And we and our family had to wait to take a picture with it. But what was he doing there? I still can’t explain.”