07/14/2021 18:32
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 7/14/2021 6:32 PM
The night of Saturday, July 10, entered the great history of the Argentine National Team, with the consecration of the Argentine team against Brazil and at the Maracana Stadium, breaking a disastrous 28-year streak without titles.
And among all the postcards that the day in Rio de Janeiro gave away, there was one that went viral because it represents one of the most beautiful things that this sport has, many times overshadowed by the vertigo with which one lives in the world of high competition .
Minutes after the final whistle of the referee Ostojich, the emotion of Messi, the tears of Neymar and the overflowing joy of the entire squad led by Lionel Scaloni, in one of the corridors of the stadium there was a scene that will be saved forever.
Messi, Neymar and Paredes, great friends.
Sitting on some steps, Messi, Neymar and Leandro Paredes, all three in leather, without their shirts, chatted, joked and smiled.
Lionel was Ney's teammate at Barcelona and they became great friends.
And when the former Santos from Brazil left for Paris Saint Germain, he quickly developed a great relationship with Paredes.
Minutes before, Messi and Ney had embraced in the center of the field, holding back and congratulating each other after a vibrant match.
But now they laughed, more relaxed, putting aside the tension with which they lived the 90 minutes that defined the champion of the contest.
Neymar and Lionel Messi after the final between Argentina and Brazil Photo: REUTERS / Ricardo Moraes
The Brazilian shared in his networks the feeling that the defeat generated, an ambiguous emotion because the one who celebrated was Messi.
"I was sad and said 'hdp (son of a bitch), you beat me'.
I'm very sad to have lost. But this guy is amazing! I have great respect for what he has done and does for football and especially for me
"Ney wrote.
Now, the one who spoke was Paredes, and gave details about the beautiful talk they had with Neymar and Lionel near the changing rooms.
LEO WALLS AND THE IMAGE WITH NEYMAR POST MATCH
On the 5th of the National Team he went through @liberotyc and told how the moment came with the Brazilian crack after the final.
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"With Neymar we had arranged to change the shirt and once the game was over, we couldn't do it. I was in the field celebrating, I went to get my phone to talk to my family
and I just had a message from him saying that he was waiting for me outside
, so I went back to the locker room to find him, "said the PSG midfielder.
Regarding the talk they had, in which Messi also participated, he said: "We did not talk about the final, we talked about how we were, how the family was, what we were going to do now on vacation, what we had done in these 45 days ... It was more about other things than the final itself, and there you also realize the kind of person that the two are (Messi and Neymar), beyond the stars that they are, the humility they have to sit down after a ending so important, and talking about other things, it's incredible. "
"Knowing Ney, we knew it
all, I think to dial, Rodri De Paul did an amazing job, I had told him it is over,
I had I cargosearlo and I think we did it
the best way.
After he was reprimanded will He calmed down a bit but he did it very well, "he concluded.
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