“What are you looking at, idiot?” Messi’s anger after the victory against the Netherlands, with harsh criticism of Fifa and Van Gaal

Lionel Messi is in his most maradona version, as has already been said, sportingly. But this Friday, after the epic shoot-out win against the Netherlands, he lost his usual cautious attitude and exploded: in an interview he replied with an insult someone who is not seen behind the camera, then launched spicy statements against FIFAdue to the performance of the Spanish referee Antonio Miguel Mateu Lahozand fired at rival DT louis vangaal for how his team was planted in the quarterfinals.

“What are you looking at, stupid? What are you looking at, stupid?… Go over there”, Messi fired shortly before starting an interview with the TyC Sports channel in the mixed zone of the Lusail stadium, just before entering the locker room. Because of this it is assumed that he was up against someone from the Holland coaching staff, with whom he had previously met on the pitch.

In fact, while he was celebrating his qualification for the semi-finals, he went to the substitutes’ bench for the ‘Oranges’, approached Van Gaal with the typical gesture of opening and closing his hand until he talked too much, and used Edgar Davids as translator to blurt out something to the experienced Dutch coach.

He immediately unleashed against Van Gaal: “He sells who plays soccer and then fills you with balls in the box”.

And also reported Antonio Miguel Mateu Lahozwith whom he had already had history before this match for directing him many times in the Spanish league and admonishing him for taking off his shirt to honor Diego Armando Maradona a few days after his death.

“It gave me a lot of anger in the draw, I think it wasn’t to end like this, I don’t want to talk about the referee, because if they don’t punish you you can’t say what you think, be honestbut people saw what all the fuss was about, we were scared before the game and FIFA must review him, they can’t send someone like that, a referee who isn’t up to the task“, launched the captain in the mixed area.

And he assessed in which aspects the 45-year-old Spanish referee went wrong. “For the little ones, the boluditas, the last play where the goal comes from. Lots of details that incline you on the pitch”to complete.

But there was also room to celebrate another qualification for the semi-finals of a World Cup, like in 2014. “A lot of joy, a lot of relief, it wasn’t to go to penalties and extra time, we suffered too much. It’s a Cup quarter-final of the world, we knew how to suffer and we experience that it is the most beautiful thing, it is something impressive,” he assured.