[Sport] Draw Martínez, without a filter: the discussion about the National Team that led him to change course, the worst moment of his career and how he managed to avoid temptations

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Emiliano Martínez is, objectively, the best goalkeeper in the world. The 31-year-old Argentine won The Best (awarded by FIFA) and Lev Yashin (at the Ballon d'Or gala) awards, with which he was recognized as the top goalkeeper of last season, in which He became champion in Qatar with the Argentine team. In an in-depth interview with L'Equipe, the goalkeeper revealed unpublished details of his career. “Suffering to overcome is the story of my life,” he defined, in an emotional one-on-one with the journalist Florent Torchut.

“I'm one of those who bang my head against the wall when things don't go well. I am very ambitious. The past is the past. I closed a page of my career as a world champion and, now, I want to write another chapter,” he said regarding his desires. With an open heart and without fear when testifying, Dibu spoke, for example, of the modifications to the penalty rule to soften the impact of psychological games, which he successfully appealed to in both the World Cup and the Copa América.

"It's too late. That's it, that's it! I got what I wanted, they can change the rules or whatever they want, it doesn't affect me. I will continue giving my best for the National Team. In Argentina they call it the anti-Dibu law... I like it! It's good to know that I caused this. I am simply proud to have helped my country win,” he goaded, in one of the funniest passages.

 

 

THE MAIN REVELATIONS OF EMILIANO MARTÍNEZ

The examples of his mother and father, overcoming economic problems during their childhood

“It was difficult for my father, he had to work ten, twelve hours a day. He suffered. When you work in a port in Argentina, sometimes you get paid and sometimes you don't. Some people run away because they don't want to pay you... My father and mother had to work more to pay bills or school fees. His example made my brother and me very strong.”

“They told me they had other good goalkeepers. I was young, I still had to progress. Then I had another test at Independiente and Pepé Santoro, the goalkeeping coach, saw something in me that the others didn't see. He felt that I had enormous potential.”

How he overcame temptations at Independiente

“The Independiente pension is located in Villa Domínico, right next to an emergency neighborhood. And, at that moment, there was no wall between them. There were drugs, alcohol, girls... Many friends went to see the girls there or brought them to the center. At that time, I went to the gym, bowling or trained alone. In the gym there was a fence that I couldn't jump over. So, while everyone else was out partying, I was practicing jumping this fence. That was already my mentality.”

The only thing that scared him about the jump to Europe

“I was scared of failure. Return to Argentina in the skin of a failure. It's like the World Cup final: I couldn't imagine anything other than success. "It was impossible for me to return to the country without having established myself in European football."

 

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