2023-09-05 10:04:00
Former Netherlands coach Louis van Gaal said that Argentina had rigged the Qatar World Cup to become champions. Van Gaal said Lionel Messi was planning to lift the World Cup and Argentina’s mistakes in the quarter-finals were not punished. Van Gaal shared these things with Dutch outlet NOS.
‘I don’t want to say more regarding it. You can see how Argentina scored goals and how we scored goals. Even when some of Argentina’s players fell, they were not punished. I understood that it was a pre-arranged match.
The news was shared at a ceremony to honor Van Gaal with an award for his contribution to Dutch football. When media workers asked him to give more clarity on what he said was rigged in the World Cup, he said that the Qatar World Cup had already been planned to crown Messi. This was reported in the Daily Mail citing various media.
‘All I have said are certain things to me. All this happened to make Messi the world champion. I won’t bore you with too much regarding what happened at the World Cup,’ Van Gaal said.
Earlier, Van Gaal had spoken of underestimating Messi in the Lionel Messi-Cristiano Ronaldo Got Debate. Van Gaal said that Ronaldo is ahead of Messi in terms of titles won in his career, but Messi has more individual awards. He stated that Cristiano is a team player and looking at it that way, he would choose a team player over an individual player.
“Messi will be a great footballer. But the skill lies in playing as a team,’ Van Gaal said.
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