Patrick Vieira’s harsh criticisms of Dibu Martínez: “He made a stupid decision”

Emiliano Martínez, before world football authorities and Qatar, rose to receive the award for the best goalkeeper of the tournament and emulated the celebration at the Maracana in 2021: he placed the trophy in his groin and did a pelvic motion forward. The criticisms rained down.

Crystal Palace manager Patrick Vieira, champion with France in 1998, considered “stupid” celebration of the Aston Villa goalkeeper and assured that Argentina’s victory in the World Cup final was “not worth it”.

The Argentine team had been criticized by the European press for friction with the Dutch after the Qatar 2022 quarter-final match.

“Some of the images I’ve seen of the Argentine goalkeeper, I think detract a little bit from what Argentina has achieved in the World Cup,” Vieira said.

Martínez was one of the main architects of the title won against France on penalties. Lui made a saving grace against Randal Kolo Muani in overtime and then saved Kingsley Coman’s shot in the shootout.

But the gesture with the award for the best goalkeeper of the World Cup has unleashed the ire of some leaders of the world of football.

Added to this is that in the world champions’ caravan in Buenos Aires, the goalkeeper was seen holding a doll with his face covered by a photograph of France’s star striker Kylian Mbappé, who scored three times in the final.

“I think they really didn’t need to. Sometimes you can’t control people’s emotional decisions. But it was a stupid decision for Martinez to do it.” added.

Martinez, 30, will return to Birmingham next week. His coach Unai Emery is waiting for him there with the intention of talking to him about his controversial behavior.

“When you have great emotion, sometimes it’s hard to control,” Emery told reporters in England on Friday.

“I’ll tell him about the celebrations next week. We’re proud of him, he won the World Cup with his national team and it’s something incredible,” added the Spanish coach.

More Argentinian chicanes towards France

In the last few hours, a petition launched by the European country that collects signatures for the final to be repeated has gone viral, and now the answer has arrived in code silver.

Through the change.org platform, with Chicana included, an Argentine fan has launched a campaign that aims to add signatures so that “France will stop crying”. It was launched on Friday evening and immediately had an impact: in the early hours of Saturday it already surpassed 250,000 adherents and the count does not stop.

“Ever since we won the World Cup final, the French have not stopped crying, complaining and not accepting that Argentina are world champions. This request is for the French to stop crying and accept that Messi is the best in the history of the football and have Mbappé as a son”, is the description accompanying the petition, signed by the user Valentín Gómez.