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The day that Martín Demichelis got angry with Louis Van Gaal and threw a ball at his face

One of the iconic moments of World Cup Qatar 2022who conquered the Argentine national team, occurred in the quarterfinal match against the Netherlands. That day, among so many things that happened, there was the gesture of the Top Gigio that Lionel Messi did to the Dutch coach Louis van Gaal.

Not a new fight. The relationship between Van Gaal and Argentine footballers was never the best. Differences that existed for years, as happened at the time between the DT and Juan roman riquelme. In fact, he also had problems with himself. Martin DemichelisRiver’s current coach.

Also read: How the fight between Messi and Van Gaal was born: it was revealed who he said “what a fool you look at” in the press area

In the last hours, the journalist Diego Borinsky brought to light an interview he did with Demichelis in November 2018 for the newspaper the nation. In that same note he recounts his differences with Van Gaal.

When asked about who had been the worst coach he had in his career, Demichelis said: “No, not that. I do tell you that there is a fucking coach but he is completely crazy: Van Gaal. He has an excessive treatment sometimes ”.

And he continued: “I will tell you two anecdotes. In a game we won PT 3-0 and he entered the locker room kicking the door, the bags, he did not stop yelling at us. ‘They were a disaster!’ As sub-captain I stopped him: ‘Stop insulting, have a little respect’. In the second half I did badly, and the next day he came to tell me that I had played badly because I had become emotionally unbalanced. ‘Don’t mess around anymore’, he told me”.

Demichelis y Van Gaal, in Bayern Münich (Photo: AFP).

In another of the anecdotes, Micho recalled a discussion they had. “If you were out for three weeks with a tear, you needed another three weeks of training before you could play again. That’s what he believed. I had surgery on my ankle, I played again in the National Team and Van Gaal did not put me in the team. ‘You have time left in line’, he told me. I walked with a fret face… One day, in a starters against substitutes, with him as referee, the goalkeeper passed it to me, I took two steps and I aimed at his face with a ball. She brushed past him. There was a tremendous silence. “I ask everyone that from now on no one gives it to Demichelis anymore,” she said. We ended up arguing in the locker room”, recognized the current DT of River.

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