Like all Argentines, Carlos Solari devoted an almost complete note to talking about the World Cup in Qatar. Interviewed by the Rocket to the Moon, the Indian spoke about the team led by Lionel Messi.
Regarding what the team achieved, he said it was “an epic and epic magnitude.” Regarding the euphoria that this triumph unleashed throughout the country, the artist highlighted: “I saw a general joy, an incomprehensible crowd gathered… An insane crowd by our standards, but that would also have been in any other place in the world.”
In a striking comparison, the musician said that “to show a similar crowd in The Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson (the director) had to blow smoke out of computers. Crazy!”.
In turn, the vocalist acknowledged that he was moved by the conquest of the national team: “This quilombo seems beautiful to me, I was very excited the other day. I perceived the polenta of a group of kids who are hungry to justify their lives, with clear objectives ” . He even opined that “this is possible, because they were united” and stressed that he tried to “a human group that had a project that encouraged from the bowels. There you have the key. If there is no emotion, nothing happens”.
“You saw what was happening in Scotland, in Naples… Crazy stuff! Things like that don’t happen in the rest of the world when, for example, France wins.” In fact, he reviewed that “when those who celebrated were asked, they explained why: they said that the National Team was an inspiring group in many ways. They must have radiated confidence in their way of playing, through their statements. And on top of that they win: they are heroes!” At the same time, he expressed: “(Diego) Maradona opened those ports for us.”
The man from Entre Ríos maintained that “you have to go up to the Obelisk… Did you ever go up?” He asked the journalist. That’s when he remembered: “I do. You arrive with the prawns that you want to stay there for two days and only then come down.” He also described what is in there as “a little ladder that narrow… It’s very high! When there are so many people, someone inevitably dies, by law of probability.”
Regarding the celebrations, he said that “It cannot be understood that there were not many who suffered foolishness or accidents. What happened was mathematically minimal, beyond the logical pain of relatives. Crazy in statistical terms!” The former Redondos assured that “a massive thing was generated, almost Peronist in its expressiveness. Something that involved the emotion of the entire country.
The whole of society was there!” Likewise, he clarified that “the big problem is that no one could claim that everything. There is a vanguard of young people that finds an epic there. The need for profound transformation is so great that there is no political party that can encompass it, life goes much faster than ideology”. With a fierce response to Messi’s critics, he assessed that “the ‘cold chest’ ate the championship” and praised him fully: “I saw him play with an invincible soul in front of whoever he was… He had to be the captain, not only in football terms, and he bankrolled it. And yet he was dramatic.”
“It cannot be understood that there were not many who suffered foolishness or accidents. What there was was mathematically minimal, beyond the logical pain of the relatives. Crazy in statistical terms!” The musician assured that “an almost Peronist massive thing was generated in its expressiveness. Something that involved the emotion of the entire country. The whole society was there!”
Likewise, he clarified that “the big problem is that no one was able to award that everything. There is a vanguard of young people who find an epic there. The need for profound transformation is so great that there is no political party that can encompass it, life goes a long way faster than ideology”. With a fierce response to Messi’s critics, he appreciated that “the ‘cold chest’ ate the championship” and fully praised him: “I saw him play with an invincible soul in front of anyone… He had to be the captain, not only in footballing terms, and he took it away. And even so it was dramatic.”
“I couldn’t believe they played so well. Until then they hadn’t shown such fluid articulation… They entered the area playing! But then the pressure became unbearable. Virginia (my partner) couldn’t watch the game, she took the opportunity to clean up the house. I walked all the time, I couldn’t sit down. I couldn’t stand it! When they tied us, Argentina played a trick on me. I thought the worst, because we are always about to wet the cookie and in the end it doesn’t happen nothing. They took the best player in the world to prison (Maradona in the 1994 World Cup)… It happened to us a thousand times! But we won. And in that circumstance, everyone cried and he (Messi) laughed. A smile as if to say: ‘I have a happiness that has no bottom, and I cannot hide it'”.
The comparison between Messi and Maradona: “Being Messi must be nonsense, like being Maradona. Do you know what it is to go to Jakarta and continue being Messi? I said that he started when he was very young and he must have gotten used to it little by little. It changed me a lot of life, popularity. They are ungovernable situations. Luckily they decided not to go to the Plaza de Mayo. They were going to leave them in pieces! Messi was not ruined by fame. I love Maradona, but he did things in another way: he got into the character, which ended up acquiring monumental dimensions. I don’t see Messi that way, but I liked that he accepted to be the captain, that he became more serious and went to yell at the referee… Which is what must make a captain!”.
And sibre Mbbapé said that “he is an unbearable guy. Neymar bothers him, he wants to be the best in the world now… Respect a little those who have been the greatest before you!”.
