The Copa América 2024 constitutes an unparalleled opportunity in the continuity of success of the Argentine National Team. Current champion of the continent, the Finalissima and the World Cup, the team led by Lionel Scaloni seeks to extend the absolute dominance of the captain Lionel Messi and company.
The members of the current National Team, who He already debuted with a 2-0 victory against Canada and wait for this Tuesday’s clash against Chile, they took the legacy of the other two teams that had conquered the world: those of Argentina 1978 and those of Mexico 1986.
The remembered feat of that second team, driven by Carlos Bilardo, Feeds back on the captain’s exploits over time Diego Armando Maradona, architect of the hand of God and the Goal of the Century against England, which turned 38 last week.
Regarding the memory, the restaurant called “10 Igual a Nadie”, in which all the artistic and even the dishes symbolize portions of Maradona’s life, he held a reopening of his space in Juramento 1700 and it was intertwined with the present, in the word of old legends from those two World Cups, present at the event.
“I am very excited about this National Team. We, those of us who play, know that the games have to be played, but I see a different team: how he delivers, how he plays, He who enters and leaves knows that the one who replaces him wants to keep the position. There is healthy competition; That has a lot of value,” express Ubaldo Matildo Fillolemblem of the arch in the indelible Selection of 1978, directed by César Luis Menotti.
The Duck also released strong praise for Scaloni: “I also pay a lot of attention to what Scaloni says. The message you want to give rules; It sends a message that nothing was won when everything was won. The World Cup has already passed: you have to live in the moment. The players don’t relax. Since Scaloni has been here I have never seen the National Team underestimate a rival.”
The unavoidable comparison with Dibu Martínez, the goalkeeper of the triple conquest of the third star National Team, gave the definition of the Duck: “There are many similarities with me. He is an archer with a lot of presence. He is a winner. It is seen that he is a positive leader within the group. And there are many saves of his that I had already made; Maybe that’s why they compare us.”
Hector Enrique, little engine of the 1986 champions, he is also excited about the extension of the great present of the National Team: “They are going to do very well in the Copa América. They have very good players and a great coaching staff. They renew players and they play better and better. The most important thing was to become world champion and this team achieved it. “They gave immense joy to all of us Argentines who were lucky enough to play in the National Team, but above all to the Argentine people.”
Author of the famous “assist” in the middle of the field for Maradona to construct the Goal of the Century, in which he stacked five Englishmen, he said about the Qatar 2022 feat: “We had Messi at an incredible level. He wore Messi’s 10 and a little bit Maradona’s. He put on Diego’s. Messi is an extraordinary player; I always had the wish that Messi could lift the World Cup. Today there are many who get it tattooed for having won the World Cup, but if I didn’t win it I didn’t owe anything to anyone.”
Who was the Black Enrique of the heroes of Qatar? The former midfielder has no doubts: “Before the World Cup, when he had not been called up, A journalist called me to tell me that some were comparing Enzo Fernández to me. It made me happy because he has a lot of first passes, a lot of ball handling. I think they exaggerated a little, but “We both ran, scored and left everything for the shirt.”
The sentence, as it could not be otherwise given the reason for the meeting, summarized the figure of Diego: “Maradona is football. I don’t know any Argentine more Argentine than Diego Armando Maradona. Every time there is a ball the first thing they are going to say is the word Maradona. He gave us many joys: He never forgot where he came from, he always fought for power and defended those below. “All of that made it so much bigger.”
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