Emiliano “Dibu” Martínezarcher of the Argentine National Team and Aston Villa, starred in an extensive talk with his English colleague from Watford, Ben Foster, for the Amazon streaming platform.
Taking advantage of the good moment he is going through with the “Villains”, with three wins without goals against, Dibu let go and recalled his experience in the 2021 Copa América in Brazil with Lionel Messi captain: “I have to be a starter in the Copa América. Argentina had a lot of pressure, Messi had never won a tournament this big in his life, so he spoke saying that it was going to be his last Cup and that’s why he was going to give everything , I had goosebumps, with Messi saying that. He is a teammate who talks to you, who knows everything about you.”
As for the consecrated penalty shootout against Colombia in the semis, he revived: “The nets exploded after the penalties, but I The first thing I did was call my psychologist just to calm down. I went from 700 thousand followers to 2.4 million in one day. Thousands of comments, interviews and I just didn’t want to do anything, it was just a semi-final, so I spent hours talking to my psychologist and then in the final with Brazil I started the match very relaxed, as if I wasn’t playing a final”.
“The Argentine National Team has a lot of pressure when it plays. A single game with Argentina is like 54 at Aston Villa, I can’t explain the pressure that you feel,” he said, while later stating: “Today, when I go to Argentina, I don’t I can walk down the street.
The man from Mar del Plata, who was summoned for the double final date of the Qualifiers despite having two dates of suspension by FIFA, added by way of color: “Every time I go to a call for the National Team I say ‘please, give me a Messi shirt’, and everyone wants it! 200 or 300 Messi shirts are made per game at the request of sponsors, rivals, people from the clubs, leaders.”
Finally, the goalkeeper revealed that he gets along very well with hostile crowds: “I love playing away, I love being insulted. I started dancing against the (Manchester) United fans because they had insulted me throughout the game. In the last minute they missed a penalty and I remembered everything they had told me”.
