Mauricio Macri has confirmed that he will participate in the World Cup final in Qatar, but clarified that he will not attend the medal ceremony

Former president Mauricio Macri announced that he will be at the Lusail stadium on Sunday where The Argentina national team will face France for the final of the World Cup in Qatar 2022but has made it clear that he will not participate in the awarding of the medals.

“I’ll be there enjoying, I hope, this wonder that’s happening to us,” the FIFA official said in a radio interview with Rosario’s Cadena 3.

Macri thus confirmed that on Sunday at 12 he will be in the Lusail pits to see the great definition of the World Championship.

When asked if he would also take part in the award ceremony for the finalists, the former president clarified: “I won’t be there, it depends on the federations.”

After clarifying that he wanted the final to be against Morocco “because it was an unprecedented final”, Macri analyzed how both finalists arrive at the duel for the World Cup.

“I think they are both doing very well. One, because he went from minor to major, he endured a bucket of cold water after playing so many games without losing. Losing one of those matches you lose one in a hundred,” he said of Argentina’s opener against Saudi Arabia.

“Which brought about an internal catastrophe, we saw it in the first half with Mexico, there was no conviction. Until Messi’s goal. An increasingly solid recovery began there, with a finish up to now that was the great game with Croatia”. he added, enthusiastic about the present of the team led by Lionel Scaloni.

The former president highlighted “courage and conviction” of the team, which according to him was completed with the entry of MacAllister, Enzo Fernández and Álvarez, and with a single Messi. With maturity, with confidence, with conviction, giving it your all and enjoying it.”

As for the rival, Macri also underlined that he arrives at a good time, although he considered that in some matches he had a dose of luck to keep advancing.

France also arrive very well, with that belief that you won’t score against them. and score a goal at any time. This is what they convey. And they also had a lucky component, because yesterday the Moroccans shot at the post. And against England they also connected,” he said.

Macri also referred to the controversy surrounding the election of Qatar as host country of the World Cup, based on issues raised by various teams regarding Qatar’s human rights policies, its intolerance towards sexual minorities and to abuses in working conditions for immigrant workers.

“I think it was an incorrect campaign, not timely, because if you don’t agree and believe all those complaints that have been made and could not be verified you would not have qualified for the World Cup. Don’t come directly,” the former president said.

“I don’t go to the house of those who invite me to eat to insult them. If they invite me to eat, I go, I’m polite, I thank them, I don’t go just to tell them that I don’t agree on many things, “she concluded.