The 30-year-old Argentina player did enough tricks to distract opponents on the penalty spot. The image of Emiliano Martinez celebrating after Aurelian Tchouameni’s failed penalty shootout will live on with Argentina fans forever and be something the French can hardly swallow.
Tchouameni couldn’t beat Martinez.
Regarding Tchouameni’s miss, which came after Kingsley Coman’s penalty was saved, Martinez said: ‘When I saved the first penalty in the final, I knew that the other guy would be very worried.
I tried to mentally fool him by throwing the ball away, talking to him… And Aurelian missed, he messed everything up.”
Martinez was heavily criticized for throwing the ball ahead of Tchouanemi’s penalty and celebrating the miss with a dance, which he later repeated to the home crowd in Mar del Plata.
Besides mocking France, this goalkeeper did not forget to express his admiration for team-mate Lionel Messi: “My last dream as a goalkeeper is to win the world championship title for the best player. best of the world.”
Minh Tuan | 16:59 December 23, 2022
