Pipa Higuain and a great free-kick goal at Inter Miami. Photo: Capture TV.
Gonzalo Higuaín continues to show his worth as a goalscorer. It seems like no time has passed for the 34-year-old forward. The hangnailin the last phase of his extraordinary career, he scored a great goal from a free-kick with which he opened the scoring for Inter-Miami in Major League Soccer.
The former striker of River Plate, real Madrid Y Juve, scored a spectacular free-kick that made American fans delirious. The ball enters like a rocket in the opposing team, at 19 ‘of the first half, and the opposing goalkeeper can not help but fly in the air watching the net swell behind him.
It’s that the Argentine thing is serious in MLS. And no one spares the praise for the attacker. “He did it again! A ray of Gonzalo Higuain. The man who can do anything“, launched the commentator after shouting the goal of hangnail.
Higuaín has scored nine goals in twenty-one games (including 13 from the start) with this goal against New York FC. Unfortunately for him hangnail, his team ended up dropping 3-1. Lewis Morgan drew the game for the locals and with the shouts of Daniel Edelman and Caden Clark, the Red Bull franchise turned the game around.
But It is not a bad season for the Argentine who by dint of goals won the American championship and was eleven goals behind Sebastiano Driussi, MLS top scorer. The striker, who also emerged from River, leads the top scorer with 19 screams.
Higuaín, 34, has claimed responsibility in a complex third season in Miami.
The surprising confession of Higuain
A few days ago, the footballer born in the French city of Brest recalled all the criticisms that were present during his stay in the Old Continent and told about the needs that come from being in the most competitive leagues: “When you get to play in This high-level, elite, your behavior is unnatural to any person’s. You have to put up with the things they say to you on the street and you can’t react because they register you. I had to live 15 years of my life unnaturally. You have to eat a lot of it. things without reacting You have to judge the people who really do the wrong things, not if you lose or win a game, or if you make a mistake or if you score a goal. “
Gonzalo did not have an easy path in European football and had to receive many criticisms over his physical condition several times, mainly during his time at Juventus in Italy.
At 34, the Inter Miami player seems to have changed the focus of his life and left those moments behind: “Now I enjoy everything. My family, my wife and my daughter, who are unconditional. I like the things that ho. I couldn’t enjoy it before and without being under the eye of the storm. Currently it’s one of the happiest times I’ve had in my career. To be able to finish the warm-up and kiss my wife and daughter. End the game and that they are there, at the foot of the field “, remarked the player who left the River.
“My arrival here (in the United States) was simple. My desire to be in Europe was exhausted. In that bubble, in that constant pressure. I was in the eye of the storm for everything I did. Coming here was more low exposure, I was close to Argentina, the time zone was also good and the city is wonderful, so I’m happy “, explained the former Real Madrid and Juventus player.
In the last part of the interview, Higuaín clarified the great moment he has lived outside of football since he arrived in the United States: “These are things that I have never experienced and for me they are very important things beyond the titles. goals or the race that could be done. Then that goes away and what really remains is the love of your family and friends. Because then no one remembers you, or what you did or what you have got It remains in history but no one remembers, the ones who will really love you are your friends and family, that’s why today I live for and for my wife and daughter.
Source: Clarin
