The striker who emerged from the Institute arrived in his hometown of Laguna Larga, where he spoke to the neighbors who came to greet him. He watches the video.
Paulo Dybala’s face showed his tiredness. The bustle of the last 48 hours from the World Cup final in Qatar to the arrival in his hometown of long lagoon it was clear. But the Italian Roma striker did not want to stop going to greet the fanatic neighbors of the Argentina World Champion Team and even revealed the advice he received from goalkeeper Emiliano ‘Dibu’ Martínez during the penalty shootout in which he beat France.
Dybala, who traveled by plane from Ezeiza to Rosario -where Lionel Messi and Ángel Di María got off- and continued on to the capital Córdoba. He quickly got into a truck and together with a couple of friends headed towards his native Laguna Larga, located just over 60 kilometers to the southeast.
The ‘Jewel’ was very kind despite the fact that her voice, her body and her face were still beaten by the few hours of fatigue and the massive caravan that took place in Buenos Aires. And in this sense, she told one of the anecdotes that remained from the more than 35 days of coexistence with the ‘Scaloneta’.
It was the goalkeeper of the Argentine National Team who advised him that the shot, the second of the series in favor of Lionel Scaloni’s team, go to the middle of the goal defended by Hugo Lloris, because “they had missed before.”
“I was going to kick across, where Lloris jumped, but I remembered that in the series against the Netherlands ‘Dibu’ had said that the goalkeepers always jumped after making a mistake, so you had to kick hard to the middle that doesn’t miss”recounted the one that emerged in the Institute.
“I am very happy, thank you for coming to receive me. And now I am going to Laguna Larga to greet everyone,” he said, and already in his hometown he added: “Here people know that I am Paulo”.
In addition, he lamented how they had to abruptly cut off the caravan with more than five million people in the City of Buenos Aires: “Unfortunately we could not greet everyone today (in Buenos Aires), but it was incredible, there is no dimension. We are very grateful to the people who suffered the same as us and are now enjoying the same as us”.
