Former Argentine coach Carlos Salvador Bilardo, a coach who won the 1986 World Cup and was runner-up in 1990, saw the world champion Albiceleste come out on television this Sunday, following defeating France in the final on penalties (4-2). following the 3-3 tie in the 120 minutes of play.
On the Twitter account @BilardoEterno, his brother Jorge Bilardo published a photograph of “Narigón” watching the image of the “Scaloneta” captain, Lionel Messi, kissing the World Cup on television.
Bilardo, 86, suffers from Hakim-Adams syndrome, a neurodegenerative disease that was diagnosed in 2018 and for which he must be under constant care.
Days ago, the one who was his field assistant Miguel Lemme declared, in an interview with the local radio station Radio Provincia, that the former soccer player for San Lorenzo, Deportivo Español and Estudiantes de La Plata was following the Qatar 2022 World Cup on television and that he was “happy with the performance of the selection”.
The same Twitter account in which the emotional photo of Bilardo was published watching Messi raise the cup recalled that they passed “36 years / 437 months / 1903 weeks / 13,321 days / 319,694 hours / 19,181,640 minutes” for Argentina to be world champion once more.
“You made him happy. THANK YOU”posted the same account.
Bilardo led the team that was proclaimed world champion in Mexico in 1986 and then reached the 1990 final, in which Argentina lost to the then Federal Germany.
EFE
