“There were 2 people from FIFA behind me when I was walking with the cup and I asked them why they were following me. They told me that I had the original. I look at Leo that he was ‘cocochito’ from the Kun and was with the trout, heh ”
??Di María and Leandro Paredes, via DAZN
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The fury for the World Cup in Qatar does not stop in Argentina and the World. That is why Italian television invited two protagonists of the Scaloneta, Ángel Di María and Leo Paredes, to relive the best moments of the contest. As expected, the liveliest anecdotes they developed in front of the camera were about the electrifying final against France and the celebrations that followed the historic and epic consecration of the Albiceleste team.
One of the most entertaining passages of the talk was when Fideo recalled that during the festivities the Argentine captain, Lio Messi, did the Olympic tour and lived the celebration with the fans with a world cup that was not the original FIFA one but a replica, entered the stadium by the hand of a couple from La Plata, Paula and Manuel, who watched the final live from an audience, along with their two young children.
Instead, the original Cup was the one Di María had in his hands, which is why he was persecuted by FIFA security agents.
“There were two people from FIFA behind me when I was walking with the cup, and I asked them why they were with me, and they said ‘Because that’s the original.’ And when I look, Leo was going to cocochito del Kun (Agüero) with another drink and it was not the original, it was the trout… it was one that they had caught from there, I don’t know where they got it from, ”said Di María.
For his part, Leo Paredes commented that “a friend of mine grabbed her from the stands because she was the same, she was very similar, and it was very difficult to take a photo, 26 players with their families… then having everyone take the photo with the original it was very difficult. So we grabbed it to take the photo.”
As will be remembered, the photo of Messi with the Cup in his hands while being carried on a litter by Kun Aguero was the most liked photo in the history of Instagram, a fact that filled the people of La Plata with joy who were in charge of entering a replica to the Lusail stadium without knowing that later on it would be caressed and carried by most of the players of the Argentine squad, including Lio Messi.
Both players who share the present at Juventus in Italy took advantage of the talk to remember another of the fundamentals of the selected world champion, Dibu Martínez.
“Taking out the penalties, that’s the cut to be world champion, that cover made us be world champion,” said Di María. “He is the best goalkeeper in the world. As crazy as he is, all the things he says end up being that way and I am proud of what he achieved,” he added.
For his part, Paredes also slipped some praise for the 23rd: “That save gave us the World Cup, because if they scored that goal against us, it was over, there was no chance that we would have another chance.”
