The midfielder Argentine Rodrigo de Paul He revealed this Thursday that, after seeing his team’s captain, Lionel Messi, crying on the bench with an injury preventing him from finishing the Copa América final, the other players conspired to “win for him”.
In the 66th minute of the match played against Colombia in Miami (United States), the 37-year-old player had to be replaced by a right ankle pain that led him to the benchwhere television pictures are offered a disappointing Messi because of the inability not to help his teammates in the match that, in the end, Argentina won a goal from Lautaro Martínez in extra time.
The Atlético de Madrid midfielder said in an interview with Argentine media Olga that it is unusual for stadium screens to show images like this, but that the captain’s vision through tears he made the players feel that they had to win for him.
“When Leo came out, I don’t know if we thought: ‘Oops, we screwed up’, you say ‘the fucking motherfucker’, the one who rubbed the lamp came out. And when we saw the image, it generated a total scream among the man. We saw it and said: ‘For him’. I feel, because of him,” said De Paul.
The 30-year-old former Racing Club player has accumulated four consecutive titles, all of them from the ‘Scaloneta’, as the team is known under the direction of Lionel Scaloni: Copa América 2021, Finalissima 2022 , World Cup 2022 and Copa America 2024.
The red and white man stated that he really enjoyed the latest conquest because it gave him “peace”, although he did not elaborate on why.
Source: La Verdad
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