Argentina's 2022 World Cup winners recall ‘worst team talk in the world’
Players from Argentina's 2022 World Cup-winning team shared a humorous anecdote about their coach Lionel Scaloni's emotional team talk before the final against France. Despite the tears, the players felt the message was effectively conveyed. The incident is featured in the documentary mini-series 'El Metodo Scaloni'.
- ▪Lionel Scaloni became emotional during the team talk, which lasted only two minutes.
- ▪Goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez recalled that Scaloni struggled to continue speaking due to his tears.
- ▪Midfielder Rodrigo De Paul noted that the emotional talk still managed to convey the necessary motivation.
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Players from Argentina's 2022 World Cup-winning side have recalled in a documentary mini-series that moments before the final against France, national team coach Lionel Scaloni was unable to stop himself from crying with emotion. "It was the worst team talk in the world," one of his assistants later joked. "We were all watching Scaloni while he was speaking," goalkeeper Emiliano ‘Dibu’ Martínez recalls in an on-camera interview. The coach was telling them to attack down the left flank. The team talk lasted only "two minutes and then he starts crying. 'Right, I want to tell you...', and then he starts crying and crying, and whenever he tried to continue, it got even worse," says Martínez. Read more...
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