On a day like today in 2014, one of the saddest moments for Chilean football occurred. The club’s Mauricio Pinilla in the 119th minute and then the fateful penalty shootout with which Chili succumbed in the round of 16 of the Brazil World Cup 2014in front of the local team.
Ten years have passed since that moment. A June 28, 2014 that we will remember forever. A painful match, in which the Brazilians deserved to be left out of their own Cup.
Although no second entered that duel, Jorge Valdivia saw everything from the bench. He regretted it from the outside, but also from the inside. From inside him, of course, because after years he doesn’t understand why Jorge Sampaoli didn’t give him minutes.
“I would discuss it with Sampaoli with a fernet in hand,” said the Magician in conversation on the Los Tenores panel of Radio ADN.
What else did Jorge Valdivia say about the 2014 World Cup?
Jorge Valdivia witnessed the defeat firsthand. While he didn’t go directly to the bench after the penalty shootout, he says the rumor about the promise of winning the Copa América after the crash may have been true.
“There was a lot of talk and there is more and more talk about the players swearing to win something for the country. I don’t know if it happened, because I was outside, talking to Scaloni who had been at Palmeiras,” said the Magician.
“We were in shit. It was an unfair elimination. We believed that it was unfair because of Mauricio’s suit. We had the local team, a historic team,” emphasized the Wizard, who praised that Red of 2014.
“That team made you excited, you had a lot of hope, you wanted to go to the stadium, to train. Above all, because of the relationship we had. Personally, I feel very happy and proud to have belonged to that group of monsters. Players with a winning, warrior mentality. They weren’t afraid of anything,” he commented.
“We had a lack of respect, a lack of respect among many of us. We could play against Germany, France and England and it didn’t matter to us. There was professional respect, but that was it. “I feel very proud to have been at such an important moment for the national team,” Valdivia concluded.
