2023-12-19 03:04:00
Dec 18, 2023, 10:04 PM ET
Santiago Giménez revealed what he talked regarding with the former coach of the Mexican National Team and his chances of having attended Qatar 2022, although in the end he did not attend the World Cup tournament
There was a time when Gerardo Martino he told Santiago Gimenez that he was in the World Cup, and that he should remain on the final list of Qatar 2022 “it was up to you.” In the end the scorer of Feyenoord was left out of the call.
“I remember one time he told me, ‘today you are above that striker, today you are inside and it depends on you’, following that talk I started to do things well, but in the end he left me out. I have nothing once morest Tata, on the contrary, I am grateful because he gave me confidence when I was 19 years old, he took me to adulthood, I have no resentment towards him.”
“I’ll be honest with you, it was something sad for me, it was a World Cup, a dream, I understand that there are revenges and I have to play next year,” he revealed. Santiago GimenezFeyenoord forward, in an interview during the program ‘Hugo Sánchez Presenta’.
Santiago Giménez was left off the list of the Mexican National Team in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Getty Images
Gimenezbefore the world Cupwas the strongest Mexican attacker, was beginning to stand out in the Dutch league and had had good performances in his last games in Liga MX, yet he was left out of the Qatar World Cup 2022.
“It made me sad because I thought I was going to go, when they tell you no, it’s a hard blow,” he said. Santiago Gimenez.
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In the public explanation of Gerardo Martinothe Argentine coach commented that Santiago Giménez was not considered because he scored “goals”, but played “few minutes”.
“I am very happy for the leap he has made, sometimes the explanation is the one that is least true to reality, he is a goalscorer in the Europa League, but he has few minutes, from time to time, you have to look beyond the goals . When no one was thinking regarding him, at the end of last year, we understood that he was going to fight for a place, clash with the hierarchy and with the moment of other number nines,” Martino mentioned prior to the Qatar World Cup 2022.
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