[Sport] From Paul, in depth: Messi's request that he ignored, the uncomfortable moment with Tini and the critical hours due to his injury before playing with the Netherlands

[FNX Magokiler]

A few days after its first anniversary, there are always things to discover about the Argentine team that won the Qatar World Cup, because Rodrigo De Paul underwent an extensive report in the Campeones interview series, a year later, broadcast by Star+, with different axes of the coronation in the World Cup, although the step by step of his injury before the match against the Netherlands, the symbolism of that match and the traumatic start of the competition in the defeat against Saudi Arabia stood out.

The Atlético de Madrid midfielder became the center of criticism after the fall in the World Cup debut and the football aspect was put under the microscope due to his love relationship with the singer Martina Stoessel: “After Arabia it was hard. Because of something that had happened to me, which was not winning the first game, Tini was being disliked a lot. She would get sick and I had no way to protect her other than inside a court. After that game she decided to travel and was in the stands.”

“I knew that if we didn't beat Mexico, she was going to have a hard time that day. 'If this is still tied for the last 10, 15 minutes, leave.' She is crazy. Because you wonder what it has to do with it. There are some things that unfortunately as a society we have to improve. That we direct ourselves in a direction that makes no sense, always looking for culprits. That match was also very special for that reason,” he noted about the solid 2-0 victory at the Lusail Stadium, which revitalized Argentina to dream of qualifying for the round of 16.

 

 

After beating Poland and surpassing Australia to enter the eight best teams in the world, the Netherlands appeared on the near horizon. The dissident voices at Motorcito took away the positive results. The team needed his sacrifice, but a training session put him in doubt until the last hours. Thus he recounted the step by step of his injury in the prelude to a duel on which his return to Argentina after the competition depended.

“It was out of nowhere, we made a reduction and, on the last play, I wanted to throw a center back and I felt it. There the Enano (Messi) approaches, who was close to the play, he asks me and I tell him, I don't know, I felt something there, the coach also approaches, he tells me: 'Did you get torn?', I tell him I don't know, I was never torn, I don't know what it feels like,” he began his crumbled account of that moment.

The immediacy of the decisive commitment went against medical times: “When I go to have the ultrasound they tell me that it was torn, that it was grade one. I say what is a grade one? It's 10 or 15 days, they tell me, and I tell them: 'No, I play the day after tomorrow. That night was very hard because I didn't know what to do. The doctor told me: 'Miss this one and in five or six days you will be better, or we can try it.' 'Ah, but I don't know if we're going to play in the semifinal, I don't know if they're going to call me up again in four years, it could be my last game in a World Cup, I can't miss it.' Then he tells me that there is an 80 percent chance that I will break down more and be left out of everything. “All that was playing in my head.”

At that moment, the figure of Lionel Messi reappeared in his narration and De Paul whitewashed the Flea's message: “I went to the room, I'm going to talk to the Dwarf for a while and he tells me: 'Don't play, I'm going to take you to the semi-final, you are going to play the semi-final'.

 

https://www.infobae.com/deportes/2023/12/05/de-paul-a-fondo-el-pedido-de-messi-que-ignoro-el-incomodo-momento-con-tini-y-las-horas-criticas-por-su-lesion-antes-de-jugar-con-paises-bajos/