Rogelio Funes Mori dreams of scoring a goal for the Argentina national team: “I celebrate with a crazy scream”

Rogelio Funes Mori could start this Saturday, when Mexico and the Argentina national team will face each other in a key match in Group C for qualifying for the round of 16 of Qatar 2022. Although a defeat automatically leaves Lionel Scaloni’s team eliminated, the Mendoza forward and the nationalized Mexican will not he hesitated to state it dreams of scoring a goal and that he celebrated with a “crazy scream”.

The team led by coach Gerardo Martino made their World Cup debut with a goalless draw against Poland. Given the lack of offensive weight, the DT assesses that the ex River Plate be part of the starting eleven.

His present at Rayados de Monterrey is not negative at all: he is the top scorer in the club’s history with 139 goals. However, that’s not why he’s exempt from fan criticism. Even a large part of Mexicans resist his presence in the national team.

For this reason, Gemelli believes that this match against Argentina is a unique opportunity to overturn its image: “It is only required of good players. It’s an important requirement, but it’s what brought me to the national team and I want to show that I can give much more”.

Faced with the hypothetical scenario of scoring a goal against Albiceleste, Funes Mori is clear on how he will celebrate it: “Definitely with a crazy scream, it would be a dream for me to score a goal in a World Cup and to do it against Argentina would be very cool”.

“Dreams are here to come true, but the most important thing is to dream first,” he completed in an interview with The San Diego Union Tribune.

The truth is that the presence of Funes Mori in the list of 26 called up by Tata Martino for Qatar 2022 was discussed until the last moment. In polls on who should be barred from the World Cup, the 31-year-old forward led with the highest percentage of votes. Mainly due to some injuries which allowed him to play only 16 games in the year.

However, Martino decided to leave Santiago Giménez, another Mexican-nationalized Argentine forward, off the roster. After an unused substitute for Poland, Funes Mori could add his first World Cup minutes against Argentina.

Mexico has failed to beat Argentina in the last ten games playedincluding eliminations in Germany 2006 and South Africa 2010. Indeed, the toughest defeat of Martino’s cycle was a 0-4 defeat in which Lautaro Martínez finished with a hat-trick.

A fall will leave Martino against a rock and a hammer. El Tri has not been eliminated in the first round since Argentina 1978. And he has seven consecutive World Cups, since the United States in 1994, reaching the round of 16.