Leo Messi kisses the World Cup trophy. /
In his first interview after winning the World Cup in Qatar, the Argentine star confesses that he did not like Van Gaal’s ‘Topo Gigio’ gesture or the Dutch Weghorst’s ‘go over there’
There was expectation to know the content of the first interview given by Leo Messi since winning the World Cup with Argentina and he did not disappoint. In TyC Sports, the PSG player reviewed the competition held in Qatar and especially the grand final or, as he himself has said, the day that everything changed.
“I always thank God. I knew that he was going to give me a World Cup, I don’t know, I felt it. Luckily, he gave himself what we dreamed of so much. Luckily, it happened in the end. From that day everything changed for me. Now we can say it, “reflected the best player in history. The man from Rosario revealed that he has not watched the final game again and that the night before the match he slept well and did nothing special.
“I have seen summaries, plays, people’s celebrations when we came out world champions, but the final itself, the 90 minutes, I did not see them again,” he explained. In addition, he said that in the last month Maradona has been remembered a lot. «I would have liked that, if he did not give me the Cup, at least he would see all this. I think that from above, both he and many people who love me were strong, not only for this but for everything in general.
Messi recalled the historic moment in which he kissed the Jules Rimet trophy. «I saw it there and I could not not do what I did. The Cup called me. He told me ‘That’s it, come and grab me so now you can touch it’. I saw her there that shone, that she was startling in that beautiful stadium and I didn’t think about it, I went to kiss her because I passed by. I needed it », he recalled. Along these lines, he described all the festivities after arriving in Argentina as “madness”.
Said which, he confessed that he did not like what happened in the hot cross against the Netherlands, where the tension left many controversial images for history. Among them, the gesture of ‘Topo Gigio’ for Van Gaal or his pique with Weghorst. «I did not think about it, he left at the moment. Yes, he knew everything they had commented before the game, what he (Van Gaal) had commented. Some of my classmates even told me ‘did you see what he said’, on purpose. And well, when all that ends I don’t like what I did, I don’t like the ‘go over there’ and all that. But hey, these are moments of great tension, a lot of nervousness and everything happens very quickly. One reacts as one reacts, but nothing was planned. It was giving I don’t like to leave that image but these are things that happen too, “said the Albiceleste captain.
In this interview, the ex-Barcelona player also showed his most personal side and detailed how his children and his wife experienced the World Cup. “It was an incredible month for me and my family. Thiago was crazy. To see how he enjoyed it, how he felt it, how he suffered… because after the game with the Netherlands he cried. Or Mateo doing the math after the game we lost against Arabia. Ciro is the one who understands the least, but the other two experienced it as fans. Suffering, living it to the fullest, enjoying it. Even when we returned to Paris we missed the days in Qatar. We had a great time,” he recalled.