Messi speaks for the first time about his famous “Andá pa’ allá, bobo”

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BarcelonaThe brand new world champion with Argentina Leo Messi has spoken for the first time since he won the World Cup captaining his team. In an interview in his country, the ex-Blaugrana regretted the phrase “What are you looking at, fool? Go over there, fool” which etzibar the Dutchman Wout Weghorst. The quarter-final tie between the Netherlands andalbiceleste ended up pushing Leo Messi to the limit, after watching the Dutch draw them (2-2) in the last minute of stoppage time. The tie was decided in a nerve-wracking penalty shoot-out, in which some players from the team orange they tried to confuse the Argentinian pitchers.

“I felt a lot of anger when they equalized because it seemed very unfair to me and because it was a foul that wasn’t. But hey, it was like that the whole game,” Messi would say just after the game. Through the mouth of the Argentinian captain he received everyone, starting with Mateu Lahoz, of whom he said that it was “unbelievable that FIFA appointed such a referee in a match like this”. And, before facing Weghorst in the mixed zone, he celebrated the victory on the grass by doing the Topo Gigio – putting his hands behind his ears – staring fixedly at Van Gaal, a coach who had limited himself to say in the preview that the Argentine forward’s options were less if the Dutch managed to have possession of the ball.

Now, almost two months after these episodes, Messi has referred to them in a conversation on Argentine radio Urbana Play and has regretted the events. “It was a natural reaction, a lot had happened during the game with that player. There were moments of tension, of the fact that the game was heating up, with the referee as well. He was in the mixed zone and it was just over the match. I don’t like to give that image, what I did, with the”go there silly“and all that”.

Regarding the celebration emulating the Topo Gigio aimed at Van Gaal, the footballer also referred to it and stated that, in perspective, he does not like how he acted either. “It hit me at the time. I knew everything Van Gaal had said before the game. Even some of my teammates were saying to me: ‘Did you see what Van Gaal said?”

“Suffering is over”

After convincingly overcoming Croatia in the semi-finals and lifting the final on penalties against France from a Kylian Mbappé who was the top scorer at the World Cup, Messi also explained what this great triumph means to him. “I told my family that the suffering was over after so long. There were times when I suffered a lot with the national team. I was accumulating a lot of disappointments, always having been so close to the titles and not finishing them ‘achieve. I received criticism of all colors for a long time and I know that my family suffered as much or more than me,” explains the captain of the reigning world champion.

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