The Argentine recreated Riquelme’s mythical celebration, the ‘Topo Gigio’, in a challenging message to the Dutch coach
“Van Gaal sells that he plays football well and began to put tall people in and throw balls” Messi assured after the game
Leo Messi led the Argentina team to the World Cup semifinals in Qatar with a masterful assistance in the first goal to Nahuel Molina and a penalty goal that put the second on the scoreboard. A goal that started an intrastory that is giving a lot to talk about.
The Argentine 10 celebrated the goal imitating his admired Juan Román Riquelme, with the mythical celebration of ‘Mouse Gigio’. A celebration that is not accidental, on the day that Messi faced Louis Van Gaal, coach who pushed Riquelme himself away from the team in bad manners during his time at Barcelona.
After the final whistle, Messi approached the Dutch coach’s bench with the gesture of speaking, a clear sign of disagreement with Van Gaal and his coaching staff, specifically with Edgar David, with whom he clashed on the same pitch. As a result of the whole story, his post-match statements were born in which he assured that “Van Gaal sells that he plays football well and began to put tall people in and shoot balls”.
Contrary to what we are used to, Messi monopolized all the spotlights after the game, with statements against Mateu Lahoz and with a pique in the mixed zone with players from the Netherlands team.
