He Inter Miami of Lionel Messi the pass to the semifinals of the Concachampions in a match against Rayados de Monterrey which will be marked by the hot weather that surrounded the first leg at Chase Stadium and that extended throughout the last week.
It all started with some statements from Fernando “Tano” Ortíz, coach of the Mexican team, who disliked the Argentine star. “The referees, the framework, the people and everything that surrounds Messi can lead to making sporting and non-sporting decisions. I don’t know if it hurts, but the business is not that way. The business is not going the way of Monterrey and we all know it,” the DT had said.
Leo got angry and exploded at the end of the match. He was a substitute due to the same muscle injury that left him out of the friendlies with the Argentine National Team, but once it was over he went down to the locker room and a scandal broke out. According to reports from Mexico, he, along with Tata Martino, Luis Suárez and Jordi Alba, faced the Guatemalan referee Walter López and vehemently reproached him for the expulsion, which they considered unfair, of David Ruiz.
But that was not all. “From there they went to the Monterrey locker room to want to face Tano Ortiz. Messi also faced Nico Sánchez (field assistant). “It’s not sensationalism, this is pure information,” reported journalist Fernando Schwartz for Fox Sports México.
These words were the reason why Tata Martino, Messi and their friends ended up hot outside the Monterrey locker room.
Tano must be applauded for having the balls to tell the truth even though he is Messi’s own compatriot.
My DT represents me 🔥Ⓜ️ pic.twitter.com/ErRNeuNkJS
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It wasn’t going to stop there. The next day an audio of Sánchez, former central defender of Nueva Chicago, River and Racing, went viral, in which he reveals what actually happened. “Yes, Messi wanted to fight me. I don’t think he wanted to hit me because otherwise he would have hit me. He had me an inch away, he put his fist next to my face. I think he was looking for my reaction more than hitting me,” the former soccer player who was promoted to the first division with Nueva Chicago in the 2005-06 season began.
“I always watch the games in a booth with two teammates. When it was over, we went down to the locker room and I saw him (Messi) three meters away from me. I approached him to ask him for a photo and the security stopped me with a good attitude. I saw that Messi “It was really hot and the referees were just coming. There he faced them and told them everything. Next to him was Tata Martino, both of them very out of place,” he continued.
“I look at the CONCACAF people who were there and I tell them: ‘If we do that, they will throw us all out.’ Martino, who was entering the locker room, turned around and started telling me everything. Messi appeared and wanted to eat me raw. I didn’t even look at him, but the dwarf was possessed. He had the face of the devil. And he put his fist next to me. ‘Who do you think you are, salami? Who did you eat?’, he told me. I looked the other way and never answered him,” he added.
😱🚨 “MESSI WANTED TO FIGHT ME, HE PUT HIS FIST NEXT TO MY FACE”
Nico Sánchez revealed the fight that happened in Miami… with Lionel Messi and Tata Martino! 😳
❌ ‘TATA POOR FATTY, HE TOLD ME HOW MUCH I’M GOING TO CRY, BUT I NEVER ANSWERED ANYONE’#FSRadioMX pic.twitter.com/tZqViXtkgv
— FOX Sports MX (@FOXSportsMX) April 5, 2024
Tata Martino? A poor idiot. ‘Are you going to cry that much?’ He told me. An idiot. They probably deleted all the videos because they are very serious and leave them in a very bad light. What they did is part of the show. They want to get the field dirty and muddy. There were no fights or fights, it was pure discussion and pressure. They were looking for us to send us some baton and that’s why no video or anything is going to come out,” he concluded.
The next chapter of this story is that of Nico Sánchez apologizing through a message on his social networks.
“I made the audio. The audio where I explain in detail what happened in the mixed zone after the game on Wednesday ended. It is an audio that I sent to my inner circle, my closest circle, my private environment. It is my mistake, but It will serve as a lesson for me for later,” he begins his defense, despite the fact that in the audio he had acknowledged that “this audio is surely going to be forwarded to many groups and people who are asking me the same thing.”
“I understand that when this audio is made public, many people may feel offended or touched. I understand that the coach of Inter Miami, Gerardo Martino, is a person that I do not know and to whom I referred in a disrespectful way, so I offer my apologies. “I hope you can understand me. I am as Argentine as all of them and I will always defend my club,” Sánchez added without referring to Messi at any time.
The waters seemed to have calmed down, but Tano Ortíz spoke at a press conference prior to the match that will be played tonight at 11:30 p.m. in Argentina and was defiant: “We are Monterrey and we are at home. Let Messi worry about us.”.
He also praised the Argentine star by defining him as an “indecipherable” player and sought to end the controversy (“these are things that stay there,” he said), but the seed of a hot clash is already germinating.
The statistics are not favorable for Inter Miami, which is making its second foray into an international tournament after winning the title of Leagues Cup champion last August, as soon as Messi arrived in the United States.
That contest was played entirely on Yankee soil, the story is different when it comes to round-trip duels. Until Tuesday night, 21 MLS teams that had tied or lost at home tried without success to reverse the result on Aztec soil. Last night Columbus Crew was the first to achieve this: they tied 1-1 against Tigres in the first leg and repeated the score in Nuevo León, winning at penalty time.
2024-04-10 14:36:02
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