The Argentine star, Lionel Messi, made an amazing match with his country’s national team to his Dutch counterpartin the quarter-finals of the World Cup 2022 in Qatar, yesterday, Friday, and led the team to the semi-final match against Croatia.
Van Der Vaart: ‘This Messi can be stopped’
Van Basten: “Messi is not a leader, he has no personality. Playing with Messi is 10 against 11.”
Van Gaal: “I think Argentina are afraid of us. We will stop Messi.”
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But what is remarkable is the way he celebrated after scoring Argentina’s second goal from a penalty kick, in front of the bench of the Dutch national team, in the manner of Riquelme, the former Barcelona player, raising his hands to his ears, unlike Lionel’s habit in his celebrations, as he usually raises his hands to the sky .. But the question is why did he celebrate this? way?
The answer lies in the fact that what the French Saint-Germain star did, against the Netherlands, is a celebration belonging to another Argentine, Juan Roman Riquelme, the former Boca Juniors star and Barcelona as well.
Messi celebrates the way Riquelmi
Press reports stated that Messi celebrated in this way in front of the Netherlands bench, due to the Netherlands coach, Louis van Gaal, dealing with Riquelme when they were in Barcelona.
“stupid coach”
The retired Argentine star went through the worst period of his football career in Barcelona, under Van Gaal.
Also, the problems between the two were great, so that the former Barcelona star, Hristo Stoichkov, said about them: “Riquelme did not succeed with the team because of the presence of a stupid coach like Van Gaal.”
Underestimate Messi’s abilities
In addition, Messi, with his celebration, tried to respond to Van Gaal’s pre-match remarks in which he clearly underestimated his team.
The Netherlands coach had talked about Argentina’s fear of the Netherlands, and he underestimated Messi’s own abilities with other statements about the 2014 confrontation, in which he described him as not even touching the ball, and said about him that he was not a team player.
In turn, the Argentine star, Lionel Messi, entered into an argument with the coach of the Dutch national team, Louis van Gaal and his assistants, after scoring the first penalty kick for Argentina and even after the end of the match.
Messi approached the bench of the Dutch national team and celebrated the goal, and after the final whistle he approached the Dutch bench again, and entered into an argument with the coach. The Argentina captain also seemed to point out that Van Gaal talks too much.
Messi, who was named man of the match, also criticized Van Gaal and Mathieu Lahoz after the match. He told a reporter: “Van Gaal says they play good football, but what he did is put tall people and hit long balls.”