🎙️ Gustavo Alfaro, DT de la Selección Paraguaya, sobre José Canale:
🗣️ “No quiero dejar de mencionar también a Canale, a José. José es un campeón de la vida”.
🗣️ “Canale jugó un partido como si tuviese 100 partidos en la selección y jugó contra Alemania marcando a los delanteros más difíciles del planeta”.
🗣️ “Le ha tocado una vida difícil. Le ha tocado una vida compleja”.
🗣️ “Y la complejidad que le dio la vida le dio, no digo revancha, porque no es revancha, sino la oportunidad de regalarle una caricia cálida al alma a una persona que lo merece”.
#LaGranJugadaMundial
Never underestimate Paraguay. This is a nation that:
🇵🇾 Still speaks Guaraní despite 300 years of Spanish rule
🇵🇾 Defied Portuguese slavers for 150 years
🇵🇾 Survived a 🇧🇷🇦🇷🇺🇾 invasion that killed half its population
🇵🇾 Defeated Bolivia in the Chaco War
🇵🇾 Outlasted a 35-year dictatorship
A “third-class team”, as German commentators claimed? Should have read some history 😎
Pensemos que todos los que hoy tienen menos de 20 años están viviendo con plenitud su primer Mundial con Paraguay. Todos los niños, adolescentes, etc, hoy vivieron un momento único. Y los más grandes nos sumamos pensando en todo lo vivido. Lo de hoy fue épico.
Otro día escuché que el Mundial termina con solo un campeón pero con muchos vencedores. Esta noche Paraguay va a dormir en el panteón de los vencedores.
Los Europeos diciendo que Argentina y Brasil eran los únicos equipos de Suramerica, y sale Ecuador a ganarle a Alemania y Paraguay a eliminarlos de 16avos JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA Viva la Conmebol
El idioma guaraní, el chamamé, el mbejú, las misiones jesuitas, el tereré, el chipá, la Virgen de Caacupé, la flor del mburucuyá, el meme de Moria mirando el celular en la cárcel.
🚨🇵🇾 Zlatan Ibrahimović: “Paraguay Didn’t Make History—They Took It.”
“People love to talk about history, but history doesn’t protect you when the whistle blows. Germany arrived carrying four World Cups, decades of success and a reputation that intimidates almost every opponent. Paraguay didn’t care about any of that. They came to write their own chapter, and now they will be remembered as the first nation ever to eliminate Germany on penalties in a World Cup knockout match. That is not luck—that is courage.”
“Everyone expected Germany to find a way. They had the possession, they had the chances, they even thought they had found the winning goal before VAR took it away. Then came the penalty shootout, where pressure separates men from legends. Paraguay never blinked. They stood there, looked Germany in the eye and refused to surrender. That’s the mentality I respect more than anything.”
“People will spend days debating the VAR decision or the missed penalty, but football doesn’t remember excuses. It remembers winners. Paraguay didn’t ask for sympathy, they didn’t ask anyone to believe in them. They earned everything with discipline, sacrifice and absolute belief. Every tackle, every block, every save and every penalty carried the weight of a nation that refused to accept defeat.”
“I also have to give enormous credit to Orlando Gill. Goalkeepers dream of nights like this. He gave his defenders confidence, frustrated Germany for 120 minutes and then became even bigger in the shootout. Those are performances that change careers forever. The entire back line defended like warriors because they trusted the man behind them.”
“This victory is bigger than reaching the next round. Generations of Paraguayan players will grow up knowing that this team achieved something no other country had ever done. They stood on the biggest stage in football and defeated Germany in a World Cup penalty shootout. That record belongs to Paraguay forever. Nobody can erase it.”
“Germany will recover because great football nations always do. But tonight belongs to Paraguay. They didn’t beat Germany with fear, they beat them with belief. And when a small football nation believes harder than a giant, history changes. That’s exactly what happened tonight.”
#GERPAR