The rivalry between the Argentina national team and its Colombian counterpart has strengthened after the crossing in the semi-finals of the Copa América 2021, played in Brazil, where Argentina eliminated Colombia in a penalty shootout with the exceptional performance of the goalkeeper Emiliano “Dibu Martínez”.
That was the day El Dibu became a figure and left the phrase in memory “Look How I Eat You, Brother”before the penalty that saved him Yerry Mina.
“Boludo, I know you” and “Look, if you cross it I’ll cut you short… eh”were other sentences of Dibu that day, in the psychological game that finally hit the player.
After the setback suffered by those led by Lionel Scaloni at the start of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, a Colombian journalist took the opportunity to making fun of the starting goalkeeper of the national team on social media.
The world echoed the surprise defeat suffered by the national team against Saudi Arabia 2-1 at the opening of the staggered in the World Cup. Some international media have criticized the team’s performance and others have directly targeted players such as the I drew Martinez.
Colombian journalist Caesar Augustus Londonus posted a message on Twitter which caused a lot of repercussions on social media.
“I don’t know whose photo this is, but it’s amazing“, began the letter from Londoño, from Caracol Radio, accompanied by an image in which I drew He can be seen on the ground watching the ball go into one of the goals scored by the Asians.
And then he continued with irony: “If someone knows that it matters, give him the respective credit. Competition. And to ‘Dibu’ Martínez, that everything is fine, say hello to yerry mina”Cesar closed with some provocation in the tweet.
The rivalry between the players was born in that remembered semi-final, where I drew he spread his figure and stopped three auctions on penalties.
In between those saves, the penalty was stopped by the Colombian defender Yerry Mina, a former Barcelona player, with whom he had had a cross. It should be noted that the defender, currently at Everton in the Premier League, had celebrated with his usual dance the penalty that transformed Uruguay in the quarterfinals.
In that round of penalties where the sentence of I drew “Look how I eat you, brother”, which he used to distract the players as they prepared to shoot from twelve paces, the goalkeeper saved Mina’s penalty and Martínez celebrated it with great euphoria, which was questioned by the Colombian press at the time.
In the tweet made by Londoño, where he referred to this rivalry forged in the previous year, many comments they disapproved of the reporter’s attitude referring to Colombia not classified at the World Cup.
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Source: Clarin
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