Carlos Tevez, without a filter: the great change of Messi, “the fear” of River Plate and the Boca Juniors coach who did not want him

Carlos Tevez He reviewed his brilliant career as a footballer and the incipient one as a coach. El Apache gave an interview to F10 for ESPN and left several titles. While he highlighted the change in mentality of Lionel Messi and the leadership he showed in the worldHe also acknowledged that he was surprised by the young people he commanded Lionel Scaloni in Qatar.

“Messi became the leader with blows. Today we see the Messi that not everyone loves, it revealed and he gained a lot from it. Today he knows that he is Messi. As a boy we already asked him to be a leader and it didn’t work out for him, because his career had just started and it’s difficult when they ask you that at 19 years old, ”he highlighted. Regarding the last World Cup that the National Team won, he added: “I can’t believe what these kids achieved at the age of 22 or 23. When you play in a World Cup you have a lot of weight and I saw the naturalness of these guys who were not starters and performed (Enzo, Alexis, Julián). If you think for a second, you’ll get shit. These took football elsewhere. I couldn’t believe seeing Messi lifting the Cup. I didn’t send him a message because I like to be in the bad times, not in the good ones”.

your dream to be coach of the youth teams of the Argentine team and the memory of his time in the 2006 and 2010 World Cups, with Diego Maradona. “The selection for one who played It is always a dream, be it Sub 20 or Sub 17, all. If they tell me, let me prepare something to introduce you. I work this way and if it’s compatible, I can get there. I have a way of teaching and if that model works for the Under 20s or for the head, which is Scaloni and from there we are all aligned, obviously it will seduce anyone”.

“In 2006 it was the World Cup to be champion. We had equipment to be. In 2014 she was out of the process due to a whim of Grondona. That year he was better than in 2010, where there was pressure on the coach. In South Africa internally we felt that if we were caught by a well-placed team they could hurt us”.

Carlitos also referred to his excellent career abroad. hostile climate that he had to endure “a las piñas” in Brazil. “The players of the Corinthians all looked at me out of the corner of their eyes, with bad vibes because I earned more than them and I was the first Argentine to play there. We came to blows two or three times. That time she saw herself it was because I was lifted into the air. Later, the kids began to look at me and they began to trust me because I told the president that if, for example, we beat Palmeiras there would be a double or triple prize and then they began to see me in a different way”.

In addition, he revealed behind the scenes of the “betrayal” of Alex Ferguson for moving from Manchester United to Manchester City. “As a coach he is a phenomenon, but I had a situation with him. In the first year we were champions of the Champions League and the Premier League. We went to the preseason and he told me that he was going to bring Berbatov to compete for me. He started the championship and put me as a substitute. My price began to drop, although every time I played I scored goals. Before the Champions League final, I arranged for the whole family to go to Abu Dhabi to sign with City. The game ends and he told me again to sign and I told no, that I was going to the sidewalk in front. It was a betrayal for him, but he made me suffer for a year. He hurt me a lot because I loved United. I loved playing at Old Trafford because to me it was like La Bombonera. The sheik came, presented me with the City model and we won the championship against United with a goal from Kun Agüero”.

Regarding Boca Juniors, acknowledged that he will not forgive him that Guillermo Barros Schelotto did not choose him as a starter in the final of the Libertadores Cup in Madridespecially for “the fear” that River felt Plate when I faced him. He also stated that Gustavo Alfaro wanted him to do badlyThat’s why I didn’t put it. “My spirits were on the floor.”

“In my career nothing surpassed that night against Gymnastics. I have won everything. How I came from China, the fan looked at me from the side. Before, The Boca coach (Alfaro) did not give me confidence, he wanted me to go wrong. I was fighting against my confidence and wondering, ‘hey, can I improve on this one?’ He touched the ball and there was a murmur on the court, it was already being discussed. Instead Russo gave me confidence and I started to score goals. Winning that championship that way, with my old man, with Diego and in the second half when the murmur of the people began to be felt. We no longer reached gymnastics. That’s the end of the movie of my career.”

About William Barros Schelotto, pointed out: “I don’t understand why he didn’t put me in the final of the Libertadores with River. i thought i was going to play in the rematch I never discussed it with Guillermo. In the first game I gave that to Pipa that he did not convert because Armani covered him. He had been scoring goals, he was not in a good moment, but If I have Tevez on the bench in a final with River, I put it. I have a record with River. If you ask the River fan, he was always afraid of me. At this point it does not heal me because the Boca fan will always have it, as well as the River fan who won the Libertadores. If I have a 9 that I know can score goals for me, I put it. What if Guillermo didn’t know that? I don’t know, you have to ask him. The same in the final in Chile for the Copa América. He had a desire to enter, that they put me that I win it. I felt it and I still feel it. Then I go in and maybe miss a goal next to the goal. It was seen that we were going backlash and we could ”.

Other most outstanding phrases of Carlos Tevez:

His opinion of Lionel Scaloni and the player surprised him the most: “With 26 players he changed the system and the players adapted. If he had to put in a line of three, he did it. The same with one of four or five. I really enjoyed it from the outside because with the system that he wanted, he achieved it. The best Argentine player in the World Cup for me was Álvarez, because he appeared in a way that took the team ahead. Cuti Romero and all the defense too. I love the goalkeeper (Dibu Martínez) because he is the personality that the goalkeeper of the National Team should have. If he is not enlarged to save a penalty, we all leave. Alexis Mac Allister showed me in the first practice with Boca that he has a different character. I remember that I was responsible for the set piece and on the first free throw he grabbed the ball and he kicked it”.

His former Manchester United teammate Paul Scholes. “For me he was one of the best. It wasn’t much to talk about and in training I would put the iron on you and then hug you. An English man of few words, but in training he kicked the shit out of you. He had a punch that with 40/50 meters he put it on your foot ”.

His fight with Mancini: “Before that championship with City I had a fight with Mancini and I came to Argentina to play golf. He was fat. Roberto (Mancini) called me one night and told me ‘that’s it, Carlos, come back, start training and when you’re well you can play with us’. He then said that I did not want to play for City. We reached the last date on which United had been falling. We were winning with Pablo Zabaleta’s goal and the draw was of no use to us. Kun’s goal was one of the ones I shouted the most. It was a movie because nobody understood anything”.

His best match: “The Copa Libertadores final with Bianchi in 2003. I didn’t feel pressure to play. Carlos told me, ‘play’”.

The tribute to Diego, with his 1981 champion jersey: “When I put it on the locker room hanger, everyone started kissing it. And when I put it on, wow, I felt like it was the best”.

His debut as coach of Rosario Central: “I decided to be a coach to see how I can help football. As a leader or manager I didn’t like it, that’s why I chose to be a coach to be there and help the player. That maelstrom of always wanting to win is not noticeable to me because I focus on the player. I am looking for him to continue progressing and to be able to go to Europe and grow. After Central I am calm, see the processes, analyze what we did well or badly as a group. Take a break and with a cool head put together a new project. Almost certainly I’ll add an assistant, he’s known but I can’t give him because he’s working. I would like to continue in Argentina. Take the first steps here, although one as a coach will aspire to go to Europe.

Farías’ resemblance to him and his weakness Infantino: “A Carlitos Tevez of today? Yes, Farias. Also where it comes from, it reminds me a lot. He is a boy who has to be helped a lot, he has incredible conditions to be great. He is not well, he had not been playing and he just got injured. I have a weakness for Infantino (a youth from Rosario Central). In training he amazed me and said ‘faaa what this kid plays’. I didn’t get it to explode.”

Tevez’s ideal eleven of all the teams in his career: Gianluigi Buffon; Hugo Ibarra, Rolando Schiavi, Rio Ferdinand, Patrice Evra; Paul Scholes, Paul Pogba, Arturo Vidal; Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Wayne Rooney. DT: “I obviously.”

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