Within hours of the match between the Argentine National Team and the Netherlands for the quarterfinals of the World Cup that is taking place in Qatar, the former president Mauricio Macriwhich is located in the Asian country, assured that he prefers that Lionel Messi raise the glass next December 18 to be elected for a second term at the head of the Casa Rosada.
This was stated during an interview with the Spanish sports newspaper Brandin which he also supported the team’s coach, Lionel Scloniand its coaching staff, and gave his point of view on the performance of the squad and that of its captain.
“Messi champion, the priorities must be very clear”said the former national president when asked by the aforementioned medium regarding his preferences regarding these two hypothetical scenarios.
In addition, the former head of state spoke regarding what the competition has been up to now and opined that, “on the field, it is an increasingly even World Cup”, since “nobody won everything, with candidate teams that lose, like Spain , Brazil or Portugal”.
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“I am excited with what you see, with how they have received us in Doha, with the infrastructure they have. Football is more and more a gathering party and here nobody wants to lose, everyone experiences it as the end of the world. Passion, pure passion,” he added.
Regarding the Argentine National Team, Macri considered that “It is among the five or six best” of the contest, although he clarified that “there are others who look more solid” and “anything can happen” in the remainder of the tournament.
“Today you see France and Brazil a little higher, but you have to go from lower to higher and, in addition, whoever wins must always have a quota of luck, a game that you don’t deserve to win and you win it, and Argentina still he did not spend that share of luck. Instead, others have already used a bit of luck, such as France once morest Poland. And then we have Leo Messi, who is not only the best in the world, but 80% of the people who are in Doha want Messi to be world champion, ”he analyzed.
In this sense, the former president highlighted that the man from Rosario, “perhaps, physically, one does not see him with that explosion and that ability to score those goals from goal to goal as he did once morest Real Madrid”, but he is “much more mature, he makes everyone play and he is there at the important moment, for example in the game in Mexico, which was very close”.
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“I read the other day that you were enjoying yourself and that is the important thing, that you enjoy yourself. He is the best player in modern history, what he generates is not generated by anyone. Half of the stadium is light blue and white, but less than half are Argentine. The rest are foreigners wearing Messi’s shirt and that is generated by him. It is what we would all dream of, being a second Leo and having the ability to take those passes with a pool cue, so that the ball does not leave the ground and reaches the perfect teammate. We are all enjoying ourselves following a start that tested the mettle of the team. Now, Holland remains, which has always been tough, but I have faith, ”he said.
Finally, Macri remarked that “the most important thing is that the team enjoys” and celebrated the “good climate” within the plant, which he maintained that “it is the merit of Scaloni” and the coaching staff, whom he described as “healthy people”.
“First, you have to beat the Netherlands, then Brazil… Game by game. Some dramatists said that we were going to leave in the first round, that we had the worst team in the world… all that extremist nonsense that is generated from football. Today we are from minor to major and getting better, ”he closed.
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