Yours respects, the material of The Athletic, in which you can guess how Lionel Messi and the company won the Qatari World Cup.

This material will first be published in February 2023. With our publication we complete the series “The Path of Champions”, where we told the World Cup about the skin perm.

It had long since dawned on Dosia as the Argentine train bus left Lusail Stadium for the five-mile journey back to its headquarters at Qatar University.

There is a funeral mood on board.

The Saudi Arabian team powerfully produced one of the greatest sensations in the history of the world championship, beating Argentina 2:1 in the opening group game and clinching the edge. .

Lionel Messi said a few words to the snake in the mixed zone of the stadium and said little at the dressing room. .

According to the words of the Argentine newspaper Clarin, Messi stood up and told the team that this defeat - by no means means the end of their hopes - did represent a chance to show "

26 days because, on that very field of the Lusail Stadium, the fungal result of the Argentina national team and the coaching staff of Lionel Scalona changed to joy, as the team wrote its place in history and succeeded. Perhaps those words of the Mass after Saudi Arabia then mooned in their ears.

Romantics may think that this tournament is building up to some heavenly scenario, a joyful conclusion to what has been called the last dance of the Mass in the arena of light, but the reality is completely different. This is the triumph that results from precise planning, unbreakable team spirit, mastery at the bottom of the most important moments - and so, the rise of the 35-River Mass in his golden career, the end of which.

One of the highlights of Messi’s glorious career is that his presence at the meeting with Argentina did not quite correspond to his fame. .

However, the remaining fates of the Messiah know their voice - literally.

Footage of his wimpy promo in the dressing room before the 2021 Copa America final, which took place at the totemic Brazilian Maracana stadium, went viral after Argentina's 1:0 victory over the tournament's champions and top opponents..

Changes have arisen and are widespread. Previously, the expression of the Mass for ZMI often sounded like idioms and slang from Spain, having spent most of his life after moving there for 13 years, now he takes precedence. .

Such was the readiness of Messi to put himself at the forefront and at the center of Argentina's media activity in Qatar.

Previously, we had a reputation—perhaps a little unfairly—of the unknown after terrible defeats or misfortunes, respectfully allowing other senior graves to take the blow on themselves..

However, after the defeat in Saudi Arabia, the Mass - the captain - was the one who came out, calling on the patients and the press to save faith in the Gravians, knowing that they felt “dead” after.

In the middle of the team, Messi stood still until the change.

Last year, our most trusted lieutenants were placed on “la mesa chica” (the “small table”), and now we are nearing the end of international relations in the football arena.. . . .

Now Messi had no choice but to integrate with others. . . The Messiah closely connected with such people as Rodrigo De Paul (a person who became known as his death in the field and his posture), Nicholas Otamendi and Papa Gomez.

Leandro Paredes has become a close ally of the footballer, and not only because they spent last season together as teammates in Paris Saint-Germain. . .

Messi still has a special status with the team. .

De Paul has lost Otamendi, a senior Grave, who is considered to be a guardian for more young Viconavians, and Paredes, who is in charge of the WhatsApp team, having been with De Maria. .

Young players such as Lisandro Martinez, Enzo Fernandez, Cristian Romero, Julian Alvarez and Nahuel Molina also encouraged the team spirit: they are well known one by one, the splinters grew up in the youth teams of Argentina,.

Fernandez, for example, having remembered the sheet, who wrote Messi, who was a 15-year-old boy, who voted his allegiance to the 10th, who loudly voiced about the unique outcome of international football, and complained about those.

Groups of Gravians mixed well at the University of Qatar, a base that competed against Argentina's rich competitors in the World Championships, most of whom were competing in one of the rich luxury. .

There were a lot of products imported from the house, especially 2600 kg (5700 lb) of kernels, as well as those prepared for the grill and firebox.. All this helped to provide asado - a barbecue in the open air, like Argentinean branded grass, and allowed the Gravians to eat while the meat was prepared by the chef of the team, Diego Iacovone, in one of the courtyards of the campus.

“My favorite hedgehog is asado, but there’s more,” Scaloni said. . . . .

It’s simple and for people with families: after defeating Australia in the 1/8 finals, the team members took two days off work, and their relatives were allowed to go to the gym. .

This is a tournament, but we don’t want to deprive anything of anything.

Not those, so that the Messiah would be completely without allies since the old hours. One of the figures who played a similar role in Argentina through to the finals, although she was not a member of the official delegation in Qatar, is Aguero, who was hesitant about retiring in the past..

Aguero, who scored 41 goals in 101 games for the Argentine national team, officially stayed with Qatar, to work on ESPN Argentina and create official videos on Twitch with an interview with Gravs.

Zagalom stinks were well received, although his role provoked one inconvenient moment, if after the defeat of Saudi Arabia, Aguero explained why Lautaro Martinez was the wrong choice, and that Alvarez could play at the starting warehouse.

This was interpreted as an attack on Martinez, who was asked about Aguero’s comments in the coming days, and created a song of tension behind the guns, despite the fact that Alvarez was advancing to the starting point for the third group game against Poland..

However, before the end of the tournament, Aguero became the happy mascot of the team, taking the part from the training team - scoring a miracle goal in the session that took place three days before the final - and reaffirming the close union of Messi.

The 35-year-old football player is the baptized father of Aguero’s son, the 13-year-old Benjamin, and is seriously concerned about his obligations, wearing the shorts that were given to him, in which case he will be at the finals against.

At one point, Aguero and Messi lived together with the national team, and in the hour of preparation for the week-long final, the great striker of Manchester City turned to his old friend to give encouragement to the greatest.

Then, right at the final, Aguero again found himself in the center of the Argentine holidays: at the hour of the final whistle, he reached the graves on the field - the football player with number 19, who wore, fighting for his country, and. The majestic drum also carried the majestic drum - first of all, accept your sword to lift the trophy and triumphantly carry your friend across the field on your shoulders.

Argentina's readiness to allow Aguero to play such a prominent role behind the benches is testament to his authority in the team, and also reveals something about the character of the head coach, who would be willing to allow him to earn money, while at the same time guaranteeing that.

Lionel Scaloni is not at all to blame for teasing Argentina.

After the victory of Jorge Sampaoli after his defeat in the 1/8 finals of the World Championship with a 3:4 draw against the French national team in 2018, most commentators called for the recognition of one.

Scaloni, who never worked as a coach for the club, was part of Sampaoli's staff and rejected this role on a temporary basis, rather than being seen as a serious option to occupy them on a permanent basis. . .

Skaloni is aware of the negative reaction to his confession - Diego Maradona, calling him for the fact that he is not in the minds of the team, not even talking about those in order to alienate the national team - and there is a need for it. .

The first person hired by the headquarters was Pablo Aimar, one of Messi’s childhood idols and his teammate at the 2006 World Championships..

Aymara's nickname could be "

All of Skalona's other confessions turned out to be cunning. . .

Skaloni, at this time, having established a culture that relies on pragmatism above all else.

At that time, most Argentine coaches are respected by the followers of one of two schools - Belardismo (the mentality of “victory at any cost” of Carlos Bilardo, the coach who defeated the 1986 world championship in rock). .

“The world championship is won by smart teams, careful teams who know when to attack and when to defend,” Scaloni said before the tournament in Qatar.. . .

Vidmova Skaloni vikoristuvati the designated system was not supported by the same praises in Argentina. .

The coach was also pleased with Messi’s permission to be a manager on the field, taking care of matches for his birthday.

In an important group game against Mexico, if Argentina was threatened with withdrawal from the tournament, Messi, disappointment due to the lack of necessary effect, having told Di Maria that he needed to deliver the ball to the center, fragments. ? on the 64th line, Di Maria delivered the ball there herself, and, without being in sight of the water defender within a radius of two meters in front of him, Messi was able to punch through one dot and hit the goal.

“Being a sniper or a thinker, he spends the entire hour looking around,” said Argentine journalist Martin Mazur, who assesses Messi’s history of analyzing matches when they happen around the new. " .

However, Skaloni got involved when it was necessary. . .

It seems that whatever disappointment there was in the team, the result was a more positive attitude of such as Di Maria, Gomez, De Paul and Emiliano Martinez.

The message is clear: don’t concentrate too much on someone you’re disappointed in.

Scaloni's plan was wise because the entire Argentine team was encouraged? emotions, and not less than to give Messi the trophy that his career deserves.

In the early stages of the tournament, numbers complained that access to the team would be limited, especially to doctors, which contrasts with Brazil's open-minded approach.

At that time, as their great competitors gladly presented various coaches and players to discuss tactics and preparation in detail, Argentina was noticeably more hostile. . .

This mentality has expanded on the field, and most of all, Martinez has infused it.

Vorotar - nicknamed " .

Goalkeeper Aston Willie's turns became more and more extreme during the World Cup.

The initial moment, undoubtedly, came after the final, when he celebrated the Golden Mitten award as the greatest goalkeeper of the tournament, placing the trophy on his groin and hanging the stitches - obviously, up to the size of his.

After winning the quarter-finals over the Netherlands, in which a championship-record 18 cards were shown, everything was dominated by Martinez’s brilliant performance in the penalty shoot-out, the goalkeeper of the Republic, who earned.

“I showed it to Martin (Tocalli, Argentina national team goalkeeping coach) and my psychologist, and I told them, ‘So, now you’ve set me on fire,’” Martinez said.. .

Martinez was not the only Argentine who provoked that night.

Messi also wanted to show his frustration by shouting at Van Gaal and his coaching staff after scoring the game's first goal from the penalty spot, and then interrupting the post-match television interview to kick out Wout Weghorst..

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Aguero, who was the guard at the tunnel, had a chance to rub in when Weghorst Pishov tried to squeeze the hand of the Messiah.

And it’s at the moment of greatest triumph, when they celebrated the yuletide of the world victory and boxes of beer were pouring into the drinking-room on a week’s evening, the Gravs abandoned the teasing of their rivals, and also the yuletide of the power of their reach. .

In truth, it seems that Argentina enjoyed the energy of its patients no less than the stink itself.

The same country, perhaps Brazil, did not stop such encouragement in Qatar, such a tone was set by over 1000 patients who came to the university town at about 3:45 for the local hour, so.

“We feel like local residents, it seems like we are playing in Argentina,” Martinez said. .

There were a lot of amazing stories about the lengths to which the Argentinean patients went, so it was their duty to honor them as a team to create history.

The story of one of the Argentines, who sold his car, quit his job and separated from his team, so that he became a criminal there, and others, as it turns out, took bank accounts and collected thousands of dollars from Borg.

Everything at home was less tense.

Ahead of the final, it was revealed that a team of hundreds of people - as La Brujineta is called (a play on " .

Argentina's skin crisis was punctuated by increasingly chaotic scenes of the Holy Day, and the Plaza de la Repubblica in Buenos Aires served as a center for joyful patients.

However, the region has its own powerful champion, and one of the main themes of Skalona’s press briefing was the presence of the Real King, a journalist from the Ole newspaper, who handed Skalona an ensign, a photograph and information from.

Skaloni would be kind, and if you were shown a video of people? Pujato, as the teams say of luck, the calm coach burst into tears.

During this tournament, the success of Argentina was accompanied by “Muchachos” – a ubiquitous cry, which became a call before the training camp for both patients and gravel.

An adaptation of the 2003 song Muchachos by rock punk band La Mosca from Buenos Aires, with lyrics rewritten by an Argentine fan named Fernando Ramos, it celebrates the sporting culture and history of Argentina. .

This was voiced by the fans in the stands and streets of Qatar, as well as by the graves in the dressing room. . .

Over the 92-year history of the business, there have been more teams that have won world championships, and, of course, more popular. .

This, having respected the Skaloni after the tainted legacy of the final, was the victory of Argentina, that miraculous football team, whose discipline, balance and directness of purpose were appealing to.

“These people are playing for their country, for Argentine patients,” Skaloni said. . . . .

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