“The feeling about Messi is that you have to leave him alone, that he enjoys the moment for which he worked so many years. If we can continue having it, it would be the most beautiful thing, but that he enjoys the moment,” said the Manchester United footballer, from England, in ESPN.
“I told Messi that I loved him very much and that I thanked him for allowing me to be world champion,” he recalled. Lisandro Martínez, with a past at Newell’s Old Boys de Rosario and Defensa y Justicia, said he cannot “describe” what he experienced in Qatar let alone “explain the happiness” he felt when he saw how Gonzalo Montiel scored the defining penalty of the series after drawing with France 3-3 in extra time.
“I was nervous in the last penalty and I started running anywhere, first I hugged Gonzalo Montiel, then I looked for Leo (Messi). We lived a beautiful moment with the boys and with the entire work team,” he explained.
“In our debut against Saudi Arabia we played a great game, despite the fact that many of us were debuting in the World Cup, and then we gave what we had been doing in the previous one, with the titles and the undefeated. That defeat was still good for us and we saw some details that maybe we didn’t see victory”, he recalled.
On the other hand, Martínez thanked the people for their support throughout the World Cup because it made them feel “local at all times.”
Finally, Lisandro Martínez spoke about the future of Manchester United in the English Premier League, where it is positioned far from the leader Arsenal: “The objective we have in the Premier League is to go game by game to fight. We have many finals left and we are going to fight, beyond the distance”.
