Scaloni’s unreleased video after the national team’s defeat in their World Cup debut: “If we recover, be careful”

He Qatar 2022 World Cup It has gone down in history and will remain engraved in the memory of Argentines. And although more than a year has passed since the final which was played on 18 December at Lusail Stadium where the national team defeated France on penalties and was crowned after 36 years, audiovisual material still appears that keeps it current.

This Saturday a video went viral in which you can see Lionel Scaloni in the back seat of a car driving through the streets of Doha in the midst of the World Cup and immediately after the debut of the national team in the competition which ended in a stumble: the 2-1 defeat against Saudi Arabia.

“Guys, let’s do something: minute 48-53, can any of you explain it to me?”Thus begins the Argentine national coach’s story of what happened in the locker room after the fall on his debut. “They had no answers. Ota (by Nicolás Otamendi) told me ‘I don’t know, we don’t know, we don’t know what to do’. But I have an explanation because even if we haven’t lost in 36 games, the context of Argentine culture is the same.”analyzes Scaloni.

“Because even people started singing after 15 minutes. But people were beaten“, recalls Scaloni speaking with the press officer of the Argentine national team, Nicolás Novello, in an excerpt from the documentary film “I choose to believe”directed by Gonzalo Arias and Martín Méndez, and narrated by Ricardo Darín.

“You can work what you want, but we have to get used to losing, idiot. Unfortunately it is what it is, we need to know what we stand to lose. First of all, we haven’t won anything for many years; and secondly, that it is part of playing and learning. That damn mother. Because otherwise it’s very easy, no one will ever play calmly”, develops the DT.

And he adds: “You arrive at a World Championship, there were no better conditions than ours, and unfortunately or positively it happened. And if it happens in points and we catch up, rest assured that we are going to compete, and we will be careful, careful if we catch up. Because if you recover after taking this blow, man, now there will be no one to stop us!A statement that was a prediction of what would happen next.

“But the important thing is to recover. But not to recover from football, because we will recover from football, I have no doubts. Because we all play well, we all play well“, concludes the Pujato-born coach.

And so it was: the national team then beat Mexico, Poland and Australia in succession. They beat the Netherlands on penalties, also having recovered a draw which was not in their plans after taking a 2-0 lead on the scoreboard. They crushed Croatia and France in the final is already part of the great history of football and Argentina.