07/20/2021 5:16 PM
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Updated 07/20/2021 5:16 PM
"Look how I eat you, brother ..." was the phrase that made Emiliano Jugue Martínez famous, not only in Argentina but throughout the world.
His three penalties saved against Colombia in the semifinal of the Copa América toured the "football planet" and made it possible that a few days later, on the night of July 10, Lionel Messi lifted the trophy at the Maracana against Brazil.
And ten days after the consecration of the Lionel Scaloni National Team, the goalkeeper spoke with ESPN and recounted his emotions from Birmingham, England, still excited by the conquest after 28 years of drought, and revealed intimacies about the series of penalties against the Colombians . That night in Brasilia, the DRAF cut off against Davinson Sánchez, Yerry Mina and Edwin Cardona. In the middle, he was insulted by Miguel Borja.
"I'm not a big talker ... You may have wondered why I spoke or celebrated like this but it came out at the time. I knew that they kicked very well and I tried to distract them a bit, talk to them ... It was motivating myself , more than anything. I was playing a semifinal, it came from my soul. And I was surprised how clear it was heard, what the referee told me. It was never a lack of respect ... ", Emi told journalist Christian Martin for ESPN F360, the program hosted by Gustavo López.
"They liked to talk, at halftime we had some discussions ... Colombia is a great team and thank God we won on penalties. What had happened? In a match one tries to intimidate the rival, and he (for Borja)
He spoke that we were going to shit in the game
. He said it in the tunnel. He shouted it to the teammates and obviously we listened, "began to draw in a reference to the crossing he had with the footballer that sounded for Boca throughout this market of passes.
Emiliano Martínez and Miguel Borja, face to face.
Photo: EFE / Fernando Bizerra.
The first one who stopped was Sánchez, with whom he has a good relationship since both have been playing English football for a long time. As it was close to containing Cuadrado's shot, the DRAW wanted to be encouraged to reach the shot of the soccer player nicknamed
La Perla.
This is how he explained it on ESPN: "I knew him, we played against him many times, we ate roasts, and he was a very familiar face to me. I had to talk to him, I stopped him, and that gave me an illusion to continue talking. he was much more respectful, as I passed him close to Cuadrado, it was a way of encouraging me to push myself better. "
Then came Yerry Mina, who had knocked Draw out of the court after a hit in the qualifying rounds.
"Look how I eat you" and "Do you like to dance", were some of the phrases that Draw dedicated to him before stopping the penalty.
The celebration of Lionel Messi, taken in the middle of the field, ended up showing that there was not the best wave with the defender of English Everton.
"With Mina everything was fine. I did not take revenge for what happened in Colombia, he wrote to me and everything had been left on the court. But I saw the previous batch, with Uruguay, and I saw that he danced to (the goalkeeper) Muslera, who is a friend ...
I didn't want him to dance too
. That's when I started talking to him but it was because I didn't want him to dance. I wrote to him apologizing but there was no response yet ... ", he said in the talk with Martin.
The fourth prison, Borja's, he didn't even see it;
the Palmeiras striker came over to dance it in his face.
"I tried to intimidate him, he celebrated it for me ... But he stayed in the game, on the field. We are all professionals," recalled Draw.
The embrace of Emi Martínez and Messi, after the penalties against Colombia.
Photo: EVARISTO SA / AFP.
With Cardona it was not necessary to speak, the creative coffee grower fired a mass that Martínez contained by throwing himself to the left.
After clarifying that everything had remained in the game and that it was not his own thing to speak in that way on penalties, the Mar del Plata surprised by telling what destination he would like to travel to once the Premier allows him to take a few days off.
"I would love to go on vacation to Colombia, it is a beautiful town where I have a lot of friends ... Although now I may have to wait a little bit, it is true", concluded the Drawing, with a smile.
# ESPNF360 📺 "I wanted to win it more for him than for me."
#DibuMartínez ratified his statement expressing the need to win the # CopaAmérica for #Messi.
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- ESPN Argentina (@ESPNArgentina) July 20, 2021
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