Edul and the backstage of Messi’s ‘stupid, come on…’ and his reaction

That post-win moment against the Netherlands will go down in history. For everything spicy and for Lionel Messi’s phrase against Weghorst, the Dutch lungo. The same one who tried to squeeze and put pressure on Enzo Fernández and Lautaro when they were going to kick. Esteban Edul, a TyC Sports journalist who follows the National Team, in full note hit on a “Calm down, Leo, calm down”, trying to get the best in the world to lower the decibels.

-What did you want to ask me?

Bricco: Let’s go behind the scenes of andá pa’allá bobo, the story. You managed to say calm down…

That reaction from Leo went around the world, hot, like in the neighborhood. And also Edul’s, trying to loosen up. Now the journalist had a chat with his colleague Julián Bricco, to whom he explained with luxurye details the other side of Messi’s “andá pa’allá bobo”.

“Look, after the game in the locker room they were already kicking each other, not just Messi. Van Dijk with Otamendi, it looked like a Lanús-Banfield in La Fortaleza, a Newel’s-Central… but it had more impact because they were elite players. Leo’s anger was more in the penalty shootout, as the Dutch barded the Argentines.”

olé He had already been showing since the day of the game how the fever of the players arose, by Dutch who provoked. And even Messi’s explosion with Van Gaal, who had spoken about Leo not scoring without the ball. Edul recounted that and his look at everything, with the microphone in hand and in real time, as the secondary protagonist of a memorable situation:

“After he went looking for Van Gaal, the 19th (Weghorst) was waiting for him in the tunnel. He approaches Messi and he asks for the shirt. And that’s where she started to warm up (Leo). The Dutchman did not understand, he stood still and Messi bitched. And he bitched more before than in the note, which had calmed down.

Edul, a serious journalist, always well informed, confessed that “he never recorded me (Leo) in the note, He was so horny that he didn’t look at me and didn’t listen to my questions.. I asked him about the impossible pass in Molina’s goal and he told me about Van Gaal, after FIFA… I couldn’t interview him.”

And then he referred to his words: “At one point when we were on the air I told him ‘Leo, calm down’ because there were a lot of people from FIFA and you don’t know what could happen.”

To close the dialogue on this unexpected moment, Edul said that “it is a memory that will remain forever. The Argentine players were hot because they had gasped, and when on the 19th he stands with a bad face, that’s when Messi tells him ‘go there'”.

“There are already cups, mates, tattoos, one was made…”, closed the journalist, after having lived an experience that, without wanting to and without looking for it, went around the world and even caused Antonela to imitate Leo.