Argentina defeated Canada 2-0 in its Copa América debut and surely for many the best performance podium was included Emiliano Martínez, who with a couple of interventions proved to be up to the task. He Drawwho even almost registered an assist for a long throw-in with which he left Lionel Messi face to face with the rival goalkeeper, was also noted in the locker room before Julián Álvarez was awarded the MVP award.
The man from Mar del Plata burst onto the scene, took the best player trophy that was destined for the Spider and lent himself to the show: “Shall I give it to you? Are you filming? Good game, dad. “You broke it.” The Albiceleste goalkeeper gave him a kiss and just like that, he went to the locker room to take a shower. “Thank you, Draw.”Julián managed to say, somewhere between excited by the recognition and surprised by his partner’s idea.
On social networks a lot talked about the new look that he Draw He showed off in the city of Atlanta and it was his own wife who was in charge of confirming the meaning of the initials “SA” that he carried on his neck. “Santi and Ava”wrote his partner Mandinha in his personal account. instagram along with a screenshot of the cut that her husband released during the triumphant debut in the Mercedes Benz Stadium. The reference, of course, is about his children Santiago and Ava.
In conversation with Radio La Red, Emi Martínez was asked if she had been worried when Lionel Messi received a hard blow to his ankle for which he had to seek medical help. And she answered: “No, it’s rubber.” Dwarf”.
On the strictly football side, the goalkeeper was one of those who raised his voice about the poor state of the playing field: “The conditions of the fields were very ugly. Having to play this competition on such an ugly field is unfortunate. It hurt us in the game, but taking that away we played a good game, we showed again that we are good and that we are as hungry as ever.” This, after all, was not a condition for him Add one more undefeated goal and continue to grow your record to reach Sergio Romero.
Since his formal debut with the major that June 4, 2021 in the 1-1 against Chile in the South American Qualifiers, Martínez has 29 undefeated goals in 40 games dressed as albiceleste. It is still far from 47 clean sheets he achieved Tiny Romero in 96 presentations with Argentina, although Martínez has the desire to break those records as he has said repeatedly in recent years: “I continue to set goals. I want to play 100 games in the National Team and have the greatest undefeated record in history,” he repeated at the beginning of 2024 in TyC Sports.
Julián, for his part, smiled with the award in front of the cameras and revealed the impressive scratch that was left on his neck due to the friction with a Canadian defender. “I think it was one of the last plays before leaving. I don’t know if I jumped to head or what. And well, it was a scratch, things from the game”, He mentioned about the war wound they left him.
