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Emiliano Martins (screenshot)
Emiliano Martinez, who was one of the standouts of the World Cup, became a controversial personality following his behavior after the game and during the celebrations, arrived last night (Thursday) in his hometown – Mar del Plata to celebrate the victory with over 100,000 people who came to welcome him.
The screens projected his penalty saves in the final and the goalkeeper told about Orlian Tshoumani’s kick: “I knew the boy would be nervous and stressed because Kingsley Coman missed a penalty in front of him. I tried to play him so I threw him the ball aside, I talked to him and he missed. I managed to knock him out”, he said to the laughter of the crowd.
In the meantime, Geyer Jordt, a Danish psychologist, explained the mental games of the goalkeeper in penalties, “from the very beginning he was waiting for Lloris in the square as if to say ‘Welcome to my home'”, this continued with games with Koeman and talks with the referee who would check the position of the ball again and then the save and his celebrations.
Studies show that big celebrations indicate high self-confidence and dominance, it has a positive effect on the team members and causes the opposite to the opponents, which is what Martins tried to achieve with the first penalty he kicked. As mentioned, in the subsequent penalty, by Orleans Tshoumani, he threw the ball aside and then turned to hit the crowd to make more noise.
Argentina is world champion after a penalty shootout master class. At the core of their performance is goalkeeper Emi Martinez’ mind games.
Martinez dominated the French penalty takers, forcing two misses.
Here’s a step-by-step description of his tricks in the final. Thread. 1/ pic.twitter.com/iujg2Sk1U0— Geir Jordet (@GeirJordet) December 19, 2022
In the penalty of Alejandro Paredes, Martinez brought the ball in his hands so that Hugo Lloris would not do the same. After that, Randall Kolo Moani approached the kicker and while talking to him he motioned to him on the bench saying: “You are a substitute player” and received a yellow card from the referee for that, he did not stop this kick, but the trophy came to Argentina in the following kick and much thanks to him.
