The technical director of the Argentine National Team Lionel Scaloni recounted the intimacies of the team on its way to consecration on the way to Qatar 2022 and revealed the nickname that the group chose to "report" the weakness it has with the former Racing footballer.
"They call him Sca-Paul"
, he revealed in an interview broadcast by the AFA channel on the Twitch platform.
“Sca-Paul they tell him. I love it. He pulls the group forward. It is important on the campus. Whenever he has been there he has given us a lot, he has to continue showing how he does it with us and in his club. I've taken him out a bunch of times too and he's been mad because he's annoying, but that's the way it is. I see Rodrigo as I was in the group, always positive. Those people on the campus are important
,” he pondered.
Interviewed by the journalist
Morena Beltrán
for the official AFA channel, Scaloni recalled the passage of the World Cup in which De Paul was injured and his participation against the Netherlands was at risk.
“In the previous one in the Netherlands (sic), De Paul was touched in training two days after the game.
He screwed me that he knew, yes, ”remarked the coach.
"But (the anger) was not with the press, the press is there to report and report what comes to it. It was in training and within an hour and a half the information was circulating. No coach likes it and I don't like it. We were giving a trick to (the rival coach, Louis) Van Gal. I didn't like it. These are things that we have to correct. Maybe it's not done badly, it's a message that comes out and in a second that's it," he said, giving understand that the leak was something like “friendly fire”.
“Despite the fact that we had a replacement for Rodrigo, we never wanted to give them an advantage, it was not necessary.
He was very close to the game, the desire was great and I told him that I trusted what he was going to tell me, but not to make me use a change (at the beginning of the game).
We knew what it could give us even with that problem and who could enter, we also knew what it could give us.
Or you could take a risk and we did.
The minutes that he played, he did very well, ”he analyzed.
Consequently, the interviewer wanted to know if the midfielder's performance was miraculous.
"Miracle, no.
Injured you can't play.
But of the elite players, 90 percent, none is one hundred percent.
Always at 80... It is very difficult to be at 100: you have to find a 17-year-old boy, ”she explained.
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