2024-04-18 07:40:44
Lionel Scaloni He explained why he questioned his continuity in the Argentine National Team, in the conference after the victory over Brazil at the Maracaná in the South American Qualifiers, and clarified: «I never said I wasn’t going to continue».
«What I said was thought out, meditated, it was a moment of reflection, but it was a difficult year, it is crazy to say it after having won a World Cup, but it was a difficult year. Life was disrupted a little, we had to think about what we wanted to do, I speak personally, when I decide to stop the ball it is because I had time to reflect,” he explained in an interview with AFA Estudio, this Thursday.
«After thinking about it and talking to the appropriate people, we made the decision, I’m not saying to continue, because I never said I was going to continue, but to reinforce an idea, reinforce the concepts, to think about what’s coming and push the envelope. . Continue competing, I’m not saying winning, but competing,” confirmed the coach.
And he continued his explanation about the doubts he had to continue: «Tagliafico said it, you won and you feel a void, but it is not easy to continue competing and make the players understand that you have to continue. Luckily it is a very competitive group. But I needed to tell them, reflect and they understood it, to reinforce our idea of continuing.
«They were difficult years in the family because things have happened with my old man, because my wife and my children were far away. And when I’m there, I have my parents far away. It’s not easy, you never know when you do things well on a personal level.
“We are used to it, the life of a footballer is being away from the family, but when the children grow up, added to the problems of my parents, these were things that have influenced,” he revealed and continued: “But in the end, the goal is always the same: do what is best for the National Team, there is no other.
The Copa América is coming: «You don’t prepare differently. Since we have been in the National Team, historically, Argentina goes out to compete every game and whoever faces it has a special seasoning, because it is a world power. It doesn’t change that we won, because our way of approaching games is always the same, with respect for the opponent. But it’s football and a lot of things can happen.”