Scaloni was seen out of focus for the first time and at the worst possible moment

For the first time he was seen out of focus staircases.

Strange, because the coach was able to ride the waves with style that risked pushing the national team to elimination in the first round. Strange, also because the coach’s strange excess means a strong contradiction in his message to defuse the drama, of what this is a sport in which you can win or lose. that is not a war. That’s what he said.

So what was so bad?

It’s all strange, especially that in the context of that message of lowering a couple of changes of football madness, so healthy, Scaloni launches an unusual “I don’t know if we play for Argentina or the Netherlands”. If we play who, the journalists?

It is understood that the technician’s anger was due to information leaked from the inside. “Does it make me angry? He didn’t make me angry, it was behind closed doors”, he insisted, as if to insinuate that the closed door works in practice as an insurmountable shield. Strange in a football man, with just four years as a coach but many more as a player and in major leagues. If the annoyance went inward, why did it explode outward? Is it the fault of journalists who want to know why De Paul didn’t train normally hours before a decisive match? Shouldn’t they be doing this as a matter of world patriotism?

Then another peculiarity, between the paranoid and the advantageous, inappropriate for his style: “I don’t understand the need to raise the alarm, the rival is attentive to those things”.

This suggests returning to a request for complicity with the press which not only goes against what journalism should do but also demonstrates that the national team does not realize how badly it manages communication. All this push and pull between the fact that De Paul is torn and that he has nothing, perhaps it would have been resolved with an official medical report and not with a message from the player on Instagram which has generated further doubts.

For some time, the national team has seemed stubborn in not understanding the function of the press, which, given the closed training sessions, the lack of official information and even non-mandatory conferences by FIFA, is driven to look for alternative sources. Look for information, no more, no less.

Making the opponent wrong is also a mistake that a smart guy like Scaloni shouldn’t make. The feeling then is that behind what has been heard and seen there is something else. And that’s what you should be concerned about.