Carlos Tevez, on the Madrid final: “I don’t understand why I didn’t play, the River fan has always been afraid of me”

After his tenure as technical director of Rosario Central in 2022 and two months after his last public exhibition, Charles Tevez broke the silence: questioned Guillermo Barros Schelotto for not starting him in the final of Copa Libertadores 2018 against River, spoke of his “dream” of managing Argentina U-20 and lauded Lionel Messi.

“Do you understand Guillermo for excluding you from the two finals with River in 2018?” they asked him in an interview with ESPN. Without turning around, the Apache replied, “No. I don’t understand that.”

“Why If you ask the River fan, he’s always been scared of me. Score the semi-final goal for River, I play chicken… I have a record with River and they respected me,” he remarked.

“I thought I was playing“, he opened speaking of the second leg which was played on 9 December at Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabéu.

On whether it was “a good time to ask for ownership,” he considered: “No, but I’m Carlos Tevez. If I have Carlos Tevez on the bench in a final against River, I will put him. Let’s do the opposite: if I have Guillermo and a nine who scores for me, I’ll put him in.”

“It doesn’t heal at this point, the Boca fan always has it. Just like the River fan who won the Libertadores will always remain,” he concluded.

Carlos Tevez: the gesture that surprised him from Messi in the World Cup final

Regarding the Argentine national team crowning at the Qatar 2022 World Cup, Tevez said: “I was excited when we won the World Cup, he trembled. To this day I live and tremble. What these guys have done is incredible, their personality, that presence they have… They don’t even realize what they’ve played.”

In addition, he filled Lionel Messi with praise: “With strokes, Leo became a leader. Today we see the Messi we all love, when he rebels he gets angry. He gained a lot from that, by rebelling and knowing who Messi is. When he was a kid, we already asked him to be a leader and it didn’t work out for him because he was just starting out. It’s difficult”.

Meanwhile, he recounted a gesture that surprised him from ten in the final against France: “I was surprised how he took the penalty in the final, in the definition. I walked nervously and watched his coldness. That penalty, if you think about it, you’re wrong. Just imagine for a second, it was to lose him.”

Other quotes from Carlos Tevez: his dream of leading the Under 20 team, his ideal team and the best players in the World Cup

His “dream” of managing the Under 20 team: “I have a soft spot for Infantino. We try to find a way to make it explode. The national team is always a dream, always with a project. If it’s compatible, I can concentrate. I have a way of teaching, a model. If it works for Sub 20 and the head is Scaloni and we are aligned, obviously seductive. I am passionate about being on the pitch, teaching the player”.

Your dream team: “Buffon; Ibarra, throws my heart as first central defender and I choose Schiavi; Ferdinand, Evra; Scholes from five, Pogba and Vidal in the middle; Cristiano, Messi and Rooney. I from the DT. And I make them all run, who headlong .”

The best players of the Argentina national team in Qatar: “Scaloni, Álvarez. When your 9 didn’t put in, Lautaro had the goal in the corner. Julián appears to give the World Cup the lead, scoring a goal. Like when we had Palermo. Cuti Romero, all the defense. The goalkeeper told me given He loves him because he is the personality that a national team goalkeeper must have. It is very nice that he is like this. I don’t take him as wide. He is wide and saves penalties. And Alexis (Mac Allister) has a completely different character. In Boca he has put the ball into practice and kicked the ball from a standstill. I was in charge. I was surprised, I liked it. I looked at it differently.”