Kolo Muani’s confession on Dibu Martínez for his save in the Qatar final: ‘I won’t lie, I hate him’

The forward of the French national team, Randal Kolo Muani, did not mince words when referring to his feelings towards Dibu Martínez: “I won’t lie, I hate him”, he said recalling the one-on-one that the Argentine goalkeeper covered him in the last breath of the extra time of the World Cup final in Qatar that Argentina won last December 18th.

“Even if I’m a bit tired of talking about that play, it’s something I won’t be able to forget,” added the Frenchman about the one-on-one that could have changed the history of the Qatar final.

The declarations of the attacker of Eintracht Frankfurt in Germany were published this Wednesday by the newspaper Mundo Deportivo 24 hours after the friendly match between Argentina and Panama in which the Albiceleste team will celebrate winning the world title in front of the public at the River stadium.

“That play could have changed my life. I would have preferred to leave it in the background, like everyone else, like all the French, but it happened and these are the quirks of life. I keep watching the play and I see that I have a good chance of scoring, but everything goes too fast on the pitch,” the 24-year-old forward recalled.

Even if yesterday at the press conference Lionel Scaloni assured that he doesn’t get up every day thinking about that play, Dibu feels differently and confessed that every day he goes to sleep he remembers that key cover: “I close my eyes and I think about what would have happened if Kilo Muani had come on the pitch. I couldn’t enjoy it at the time, but it was the best save of my career.”

The cover of Dibu