Argentine star Lionel Messi has expressed regret over the clash that occurred between him and Louis van Gaal, coach of the Netherlands national team, and the mill players during the two countries’ confrontation in the quarter-finals of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. World Cup Messi, the French star of Paris Saint-Germain, spoke in an interview with the Argentine radio station Urbana Play about the events: a fierce confrontation between Argentina and the Netherlands in a match that Tango decided with a penalty shoot-out, on the way to winning the World Cup for the third time .
Messi said: “I didn’t like what I did. I didn’t like what happened next. Those were very tense moments, a lot of tension. Everything went very quickly, and people reacted in their own way. planned, it just happened.”
Prior to the match, Van Gaal said that his team had a higher degree of readiness compared to Argentina, and also pointed out that Messi did not touch the ball during the confrontation between the two teams at the Golden Square of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, when Argentina also won on penalties.
“I reacted in this way, there are a lot of things in this player, such moments of tension … I was in the mixed doubles, it just happened, I don’t want to leave this picture, but these things to talk about.”
