2023-09-08 02:23:35
09/07/2023 2:23 p.m. Updated to 09/07/2023 2:47 p.m.
Lionel Messi He did it once more: a great goal from a free kick and Argentina beat Ecuador 1-0 at the Monumental for the first date of the Qualifiers. Pure emotion in the fans who took over the River stadium, explosion of the players and resignation of the rivals, almost impotence before the genius who is on his way to his eighth Ballon d’Or.
Who took Messi’s shirt following the umpteenth day of glory for the Flea? Hernán Galíndez, the Argentine goalkeeper that Ecuador has, the same one who was left standing in the left foot from outside the croissant. He is an adversary with whom he has a precocious history, because they competed in childhood.
Galínez told Olé the story in a note published on 10/6/20, before a match in which the then DT of Ecuador, Gustavo Alfaro, had to summon him urgently.
Galíndez was stopped at the free kick.
Both are from Rosario. Even, Galíndez cut short in Central before leaving for Ecuador. “We were both from the South zone, we lived more or less close. We faced each other in all the finals, I have a DVD of having won a match once morest him, but he almost always won. He already showed when he was little what a monster he was. But as everyone knows, He went to Spain when he was 12 years old. We never faced each other once more.”
He even beat a bicycle once. “In a final of a tournament organized by a club called Tiro Suizo, in Rosario. They gave the champion ten bicycles, instead of trophies. In Rosario they play seven once morest seven, on grass. I cut corners for Estrella Juniors. they played the final and we might beat them. I have a DVD that corroborates that I faced the monster”, he told Olé.
This Thursday he left with a defeat for Núñez. Also, with a relic that he will care for for life…
Messi changes the jacket with Galíndez (AFP).
Leo’s goal
Leo’s word following the game
The match summary
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