Ángel Di María’s story with the Argentina national team will have one more chapter. This was revealed this Monday by Rosario’s striker himself, who whitewashed him changed my mind before the consecration to the Qatar 2022 World Cup at the insistence of his teammates, who asked him to continue, at least, until the next America’s Cup 2024where the Albiceleste will defend the title.
‘Fideo’ has a statistic that measures his connection to the national team: he scored goals in all finals which meant titles. To Nigeria to win the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics; to Brazil in the 2021 Copa América Final; in Italy to win the Finalissima; and what he shouted in front of France to get the third star. Before landing at the Major in 2009, he was also Under 20 World Champion in Canada 2007.
Talking with TyC SportDi María left that post behind after the victory over Venezuela for the South American qualifiers in which he slipped that it could be his last time in the country in the national team shirt and also his statements in Bilbao, where the deadline had been set on the World Cup in Qatar.
About to turn 35 on Feb. 14, revealed the man who emerged from Rosario Central who were the Scaloneta players that, during his concentration at the University of Doha, he “they inflated the balls” to continue sharing moments together.
“These guachos want me to continue. Before the final, Lea (Paredes), Rodri (De Paul), Licha (Martínez), Cuti (Romero) always pissed me off about how I was going to leave the national teamwhich is one of the things I love the most” said the current Juventus player from Italy.
“I started thinking, it was obvious after he won that he wanted to give a little more, I still feel good, I’m fine, I’ve always been honest about it. When I realize she’s not going, I’ll step aside. I will try to reach the next Copa América and if I don’t get off before,” he conditioned, by way of clarification.
And what will be the goal in the competition that will take place in the United States and with 16 teams? “For me, for Leo (Messi) and for those to come, winning the Copa América again is desirable. We love what you experience and it’s good for us to see all the people happy.”
“It hurt me to be told I was shitting in the final”
Last week, just over a month after his consecration in Doha, ‘Angelito’ gave an extensive interview to the sports newspaper Olé, in which he admitted that he still didn’t understand what it meant to win the World Cup.
“Not yet, huh. Here we are. People remind you all the time and there are moments that they do, moments that they don’t… When you see the pictures, when you see the pictures. I see Montiel Prison constantly. But I think one is falling little by little and realizing what one has achieved”contacted.
-Do you talk about those who have always aimed at you, but at a certain point did you think of stepping aside? What was the criticism that hurt you the most?
-What hurt me the most was that criticism that ended up hurting you. What she didn’t give us to be in the Selection. For example for me, personally, that I took a shit in the final, that I was never there for the finals, that something always happened to me. In the end God gave me that rematch and after three finals in which I could not be at 100% (World Cup 2014 and Copa América 2015 and 2016), and in the following three (Copa América 2021, Finalissima 2022 and World Cup 2022) I was in able to be 100% and prove that this was really not what was happening to me. But they were things of life as you say. Injuries that should have happened to me for something and now they didn’t happen to me and in the end it happened like this. Those criticisms are the ones that hurt the most. Not just one, because I keep playing the same way, I’m in Europe, but for those in Argentina they always hear the same thing, it hurts too much. And that’s why sometimes one says enough, I’m leaving, but they are the ones who have always told me no.
-Before the Copa América you said: “I’d rather be fooled by 40 million Argentines than have a coffee in Paris.” you weren’t wrong…
-It is clear that he was right, that the above helped me say it and helped me to be able to win the following goals. Apart from that I always felt the love from people, when things didn’t work out I always got that recognition and I will never forget those moments, from 2014, 2016, 2017. I think football is like that and it gave us the chance of Starting from 2019, with Scaloni, things will change. I always say, I have the thorn and bitterness for my former teammates who didn’t make it and we were so close.
Source: Clarin
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