He Qatar World Cup 2022 It went down in history and will remain engraved in the memories of Argentinians. And although more than a year has passed since the final that was played on December 18 at the 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 traveling the streets of Doha in the middle of the World Cup and just after the debut of the national team in the competition that went with a stumble: the 2-1 defeat against Saudi Arabia.
“Guys, let’s do something: minute 48 to 53, can any of you explain to me?”This is how the Argentine National Team coach begins his story about what happened in the locker room after the fall in the debut. “They didn’t have answers. Ota (by Nicolás Otamendi) told me ‘I don’t know, we don’t know, we don’t know what to do’. But I do have an explanation because even though we haven’t lost in 36 games, the context of Argentine culture is the same.”analyzes Scaloni.
“Because even the people started singing after 15 minutes. But the people were beaten“recalls Scaloni while 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 whatever you want, but we have to be used to losing, idiot. Unfortunately it is what it is, we have to know what we can lose. First, we haven’t won anything in a lot of years; and second, that it is part of the game and part of learning. The fucking mother. Because if not, it’s very easy, no one is ever going to play calmly,” develops the DT.
And he adds: “You come to a World Cup, there was no better condition than we are in, and unfortunately or positively it happened. And if it happens through the points and we recover, rest assured that we go and compete, and be careful, be careful if we recover. Because if you recover after receiving this blow, friend, now there is 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 are going to recover from football, I have no doubts. Because we all play well, we all play well“, concludes the coach born in Pujato.
And it was just like that, the National Team later beat Mexico, Poland and Australia in a row. They beat the Netherlands on penalties, also after recovering from a tie that was not in their plans after going ahead 2-0 on the scoreboard. They crushed Croatia and France in the final is already part of the great history of football and Argentina.