2023-09-02 19:22:00
Emiliano “Drawing” Martinez He will be remembered in the history of Argentine soccer as the goalkeeper who, in the 122nd minute of the World Cup final once morest France, prevented the Gauls from turning the game around and will win the most precious trophy for the second time in a row. This September 2, the man from Mar del Plata turns 31 and the greetings multiplied remembering that moment, but also others where he was able to keep the unbeaten fence of the Argentine National Team.
“Biggest save ever?”FIFA asked himself this Saturday morning when entertaining the Aston Villa goalkeeper. There he showed the moment where his left leg, stretched to the extreme, was placed as a barrier so that the French did not go on to win the game when it was already ending.
The subsequent story is well known: Martínez would save two penalties (on Kingsley Coman and Aurélien Tchouaméni) and Argentina, with the final definition of Gonzalo Montiel, would win the third World Cup in its history.
Throughout the tournament that was played between November and December in Qatar, an atypical date considering that the previous World Cups were played in the middle of the year, the Argentine 1 was solid and with “game-winning” interventions.
He did it once morest Mexico in the second group game and following the setback with Saudi Arabia, where the national team lost 2-1. Already in the round of 16, once morest Australia, he saved a one-on-one at the end of the game that allowed the pass to the quarterfinals to face a classic rival in this competition for the albiceleste: the Netherlands.
After the orange team tied the game that they were losing by two goals and the match went to penalties, Martínez became the master of the show: with words, gestures and various gadgets, he tried to distract the Dutch. Finally, Argentina ended up prevailing and the goalkeeper saved two penalties.
In the semifinals, a Lionel Messi in a state of grace did not require his services, but in the final he once once more demonstrated his weight in gold: not only did he block a decisive ball from Kolo Muani (a camera shows the players from the French bank going out to celebrate, presaging the goal), but managed to deflect two penalties.
Copa América 2021: the beginning of “La Scaloneta”
The story of “Drawing”, however, did not begin in Qatar, but with the triumph in the Copa América in Brazil 2021, where those led by Lionel Scaloni won the trophy that had been elusive since 1993 and no less than at the home of the Scratch.
Before, in the semifinals, he had put on a real show. “Look, I’m eating you, brother”, he had challenged the Colombian Yerry Mina in the penalty shootout, and then he was left with the cry of the coffee goal.
On September 7, Argentina will open a new South American tie once morest Ecuador and there Martínez will once once more occupy one of the biggest goals on the soccer planet. The public, fervent for everything he gave to the national team, will surely receive him with a standing ovation.
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