Enzo FernandezWorld champion in Qatar 2022 and the most expensive Argentine player in history, He said that he “never” enjoyed “so much” during a game as the first half of the final against France.
In an interview with AFA Estudio, the midfielder chosen as the best young player in the World Cup reviewed the conquest in Qatar that will be celebrated this Thursday with a friendly against Panama at the Monument Stadium.
“I was enjoying how we were playing because playing like this in the World Cup final is priceless. The truth is that I never enjoyed a game as much as that first half. It was unforgettable“Recalled the Chelsea footballer, from England.
As he sometimes recounted, The former River Plate found out about the call-up to the World Cup a week before but his irruption in the team was in the second and decisive game against Mexico in which he scored 2-0. “Before entering, Scaloni told me to handle the ball and try to look for ‘Leo’“, detailed the also former Defense and Justice before recounting his goal step by step.
“Before the corner kick, ‘Leo’ tells me ‘come over to play, we’re going to have her there’. When she gives it to me I don’t see anyone in front of me and I thought about facing and shooting the center but then that came out because when I throw the bicycle, I go inside and the bow is left in front of me,” he recalled. “At the celebration they congratulated me and then Messi told me ‘you saw that I told you that you had to come to play, you deserve it, Enzito“, revealed.
The native of the Buenos Aires town of San Martín assured that the captain of the Argentine national team “is an idol”. “He is a great person, when I needed him he was always there, with advice or to dedicate nice words to me. I’m grateful for life,” she noted.
“I have been racing for three and a half years and I feel privileged to have been champion with the best in history and an extraordinary group. It’s something dreamed“, closed the 22-year-old footballer.
