Argentina has ‘Ángel’ … and Messi has the Copa América (1-0)

In the end he got it Leo messi He already has his title with the Argentine national team. It took him years and years, but he has already removed that slab from above and portrays those who for a long time dared to call him cold chest one of the best players in history. Messi he succeeded. On Maracana. Against Brazil, the greatest historical rival of the albiceleste. In front he also had his friend Neymar. Leo did it thanks to a guardian ‘Angel’ named Say Maria. You already have the title in your hands and Argentina the whole vibrated for him and because this title also serves to pay homage to a Diego Armando Maradona that wherever he is, he also pushed his successor, the ’10’, to Messi.

If on Sunday the final of the Eurocup was played at Wembley, the temple of football in the old continent, in the early hours of Saturday it was the turn of the Maracana, the other stadium par excellence, put on its best clothes to host on its mat the classic of the national team classics: Argentina-Brazil. Little public in the stands, yes, but in the green footballers like Messi, Neymar, Casemiro, Lodi, Lautaro, Di María… Almost nothing.

Both teams entered the field, no one touched the cup, so the jinx was eliminated from the equation of the game and whoever won had to work it out in the game rectangle. The hymns sounded and the ball rolled in Maracana already two minutes Fred received a card the color of his shirt for a hard entrance to Montiel. This lack served as a prologue to what was going to happen. Pure soccer field of potrero and nothing of Beautiful game. A number of fouls that made the viewer believe, whether he saw it on the Twitch from Ibai Llanos or on some regional television, who was staying up late to watch a UFC fight.

Fouls, fouls and fouls. This is how the start of a very locked match could be summed up that unblocked Angel Di Maria at 20 minutes. The one with PSG roll an uncheck, Rodrigo de Paul He hits an exquisite pass that grabs the back of the one who will be his teammate at Atleti Renan Lodi and the Argentine extreme throws it over to Ederson to do the first in the morning. Madness on the side he leads Scaloni. After the goal, we again returned to continuous interruptions except for some detail, such as a shot from Messi that it was brushing the stick or a foul that Neymar crashed into the barrier.

With the 1-0 favorable to the albiceleste it was reached the intermission and the return of the changing rooms entered Roberto Firmino by the admonished Fred. Offensive substitution of Tite that changed the course of the game. There were still fouls, but now the crash was back and forth. By the way, Neymar, who played practically the entire first half with torn pants, returned with a new one. Returning to the development of the game, Brazil saw in the 52 ′ how the referee canceled a goal -the VAR ratified it- to Richarlison for offside of the forward of the Everton.

Brazil does not avoid the ‘Maracanazo’

Then Richarlison he had it again taking advantage of the gap left by mints. The Brazilian shot but ran into Martínez, who became the hero like a few days ago in the penalty shootout against Colombia. And it is that Brazil began to tighten and the albiceleste had to suffer. Argentina He practically did not smell it upstairs and Messi had to do a more physical job than show his talent. Instead, what was up to Neymar it was putting up with the Argentines trying to get mad. To finish bursting the game, he entered the 62 ‘ Vinicius and his companions quickly searched for him although the end of the Real Madrid he was not able to mess it up.

With Brazil turning to the attack the Argentines could begin to throw some cons in which Messi could not finish because his shots always crashed in the defense of the Canarinha. The selectors of Argentina and Brazil they continued to make changes, one to try to achieve a draw and the other to defend themselves as best they could. Time passed and the meeting began to heat up even more, especially when he entered Gabigol to green. For everything there was an argument … and Argentina delighted because it was up on the scoreboard.

The hosts tried to the end … and a lot – led by Gabigol-, but that goal of the tie did not come. In a counter Messi he forgave the second in a play ‘a lo Abreu’, but nothing changed in the electronic game and when the whistle of the Uruguayan referee rang out in the Brazilian stadium, the Argentines were proclaimed champions of the Cup America. A new Maracanazo. Leo Messi with his long-awaited title with his country, something he had not achieved since the Beijing Olympics in 2008. The albiceleste won the tournament and this year there will be no tweets from outraged Argentines, but hundreds of thousands chanting the «BrazilTell me what it feels like… ».