Pablo Aimar and his first statement after his consecration in Qatar: “If it’s a dream, don’t wake us up again”

Paul AimarLionel Scaloni’s assistant at the helm of the Argentine national team, he expressed his joy at the consecration at the Qatar 2022 World Cup, twelve days after the thrilling final against France.

The former River, Benfica and Valencia player has nearly 200,000 Instagram followers, although he has only published five posts in just over two years.

The last one, this Friday, with a message to “all those who made this madness stop being a dream”. It was his first public demonstration since Lionel Messi lifted the World Cup.

To them the Cordovan dedicated “an enormous and heartfelt thanks” and left a request: “Don’t wake us up again”.

It’s that not only for the champion team players is the finish line something they “don’t fall off”. Time, they say, will put into perspective the significance of having lifted the World Cup for the third time in history, after 36 years of frustration.

“Thanks – he added – to those who resisted here and there”, concludes the publication.

Scaloni, who outnumbers “Payasito” by one publication on the social network, but who eight times it in number of followers (1.6 million), responded with a fervent “big nut”.

Together with Walter Samuel, those who grew up under the wing of José Néstor Pekerman, were shaping the national team which, as Messi said before the 2021 Copa América, gave the coup.

Aimar’s post has four photos. The first, the moment in which the players raise the trophy on the stage set up in the center of the Lusail stadium. The second, together with the rest of the coaching staff, such as Roberto Ayala and coach Martín Tocalli, among others. The last two, from his family.

But something else binds Aimar and Scaloni on social networks regarding the Olympic return. The dreamlike.

“The dream of all Argentines has come true, eternally grateful, excited to see you happy, you were the number 12 player,” the head coach wrote a week ago.

Argentine football does not wake up, nor does it want to, from the truest dream of all.

The precious gesture of the technical staff with Pablo Aimar

Ricardo Aimar, known as the ‘Payo’, is the father of the ‘Clown’ and in a radio interview with FM Gospel of Río Cuarto he told a story that denotes the great union, camaraderie and good atmosphere that is created between those responsible to take the technical and tactical decisions of the Albiceleste team.

It turns out that the former River and Valencia player suffered the death of his mother in October, that is, a month before the start of Qatar 2022. Given this situation, his father recounted the gesture of the members of the coaching staff to support him in such a complicated moment.

“They are very close friends, they have formed a very nice and very good technical staff. When my wife died, the boys came, all the technical staff in two cars, they stopped here in a hotel and some stopped at Pablo’s house. Everyone came except Scaloni because he had already gone to Mallorca, but all the others came. My wife had died and they came to the wake, then I said to Pablo ‘they seem to love you very much’”, commented Ricardo Aimar.

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