๐จ๐๏ธ | Alexis Mac Allister: โDibu Martรญnez saved us all. He saved an entire country.โ
โช๏ธโI had already been substituted. It was 3โ3, heading to penalties. Everyone on the bench was really quiet, waiting for the whistle. The whole stadium was quiet, actually. It was weird. And then, all of a sudden, the world stood still. You know when it feels like the air is sucked out of the stadium? For three seconds, nobody breathed.โ
โช๏ธโAll I remember was a blue shirt right in front of Dibu with the ball at his feet. Nobody around him. Iโve never felt more helpless.โ
โช๏ธโI thought, Itโs over. Thereโs no way. Weโve lost the World Cup.โ
โช๏ธโBut you know what we say about keepers in Argentina right? - โTo be a keeper, you either have to be crazy or an idiot.โ
โช๏ธโThank God, we have El Dibu, the craziest one of them all. I always say that he has the spirit of a child playing football. He does things that only a kid would think of doing, because he plays in the moment, you know?โ
โช๏ธโThe only way that I can describe that save is to remember what it was like when you were a little kid, jumping on the bed, pretending to be Buffon or Casillas or El Pato Abbondanzieri. You know what I mean? Were me and my brothers the only ones who did that? Whenever our mom would go out to the grocery store, we would sneak into her room, because she had the biggest bed in the house. That was our pitch, for the hour. One brother would throw the ball, and the other brother would jump around on the mattress, pretending to be El Pato making crazy diving saves.โ
โช๏ธโLeaping into the air with your arms and legs stretched out, like a starfish. Doing the impossible.โ
โช๏ธโThatโs what El Dibu did that night. He stuck out his left leg like a crazy kid jumping on the bed, and he answered the prayers of 45 million people.โ
๐จ๐๏ธ ๐ก๐ถ๐ฐ๐ผ๐น๐ฎ๐ ๐ข๐๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ ๐ผ๐ป ๐ต๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ๐น ๐ ๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ:
โช๏ธโPeople always ask if we treat Messi differently in the national team.โ
โช๏ธโThe answer is yes... and anyone who says otherwise is lying.โ
โช๏ธโWe're talking about the greatest player in history.โ
โช๏ธโBut it's not about giving him special privileges. It's about understanding who he is and what he means to Argentina.โ
โช๏ธโWhen Messi speaks, everyone listens. When Messi is on the pitch, everyone runs a little harder. Not because he asks us to, but because he inspires it.โ
โช๏ธโI've played with him for many years, and what surprises me most is his humility. A player who has won everything could act like a king, but Leo is one of the most normal people you'll ever meet.โ
โช๏ธโThat's why the dressing room protects him.โ
โช๏ธโNot because he's Messi the superstar, but because he's Messi our captain, our teammate and the man who carried the dreams of an entire country for so many years.โ
โช๏ธโSome teams have great players...โ
โช๏ธโWe have Messi.โ
โช๏ธโAnd trust me, that's a privilege none of us take for granted.โ
He completed 86/99 passes total in the game meaning that he missed 13 passes in total.
How could you miss 13 passes total and 21 forward passes, this makes no sense at all.
An official stats and rating app posting a fake stat is crazy.
Not a single league title in the last 20 years has been directly decided by such a clear and undeniable refereeing mistake, yet we're the ones constantly accused of benefiting from referees.