SCALONI FULL PRESS CONFERENCE after ARGENTINA 3-2 EGYPT: analysis of an incredible comeback

[0:00] Well, first we had a difficult time, like all of us, because we were losing and not making a bad game, I think the game was always on our side, we had a lot of situations, but well, football has these things, for that I became a trainer, I just said to them, I became a trainer for when I left playing, I had these emotions, for that, not because I like to be a trainer, [0:34] I suffer like all of you when I'm in the bank, but the emotions that you give a football, that you give us a lot of Argentina, I think it's inigualable, and to recreate that emotion for me is something incredible, I'm a trainer for this, and today, I honestly, not for the magnitude, [0:58] at the end, it's not that we are in a final, but the magnitude of the day is comparable to many things that we have experienced, why? Because it's a feeling of a team that, [1:13] that, in addition to what's going on, it doesn't stop going forward, trying to play with their own, at the end, the football is this, the football is this, the tactics, the strategy, [1:25] so it's important, of course, I'm not going to say that it's important, but if you don't have this part that we have today, not only today, [1:35] otherwise we would have been eliminated, so that, the people, that's the same, and what he always said, the famous phrase, [1:43] that I don't know if it was from Leo in Qatar, that they're going to leave it, it's so, it's literal, because it's what you feel, [1:50] what you feel, what you feel, what you feel, so, I'm emotional. [1:54] Well, particularly, if we're going to analyze the game, I think it was always from Argentina the game, [2:02] even though they had two or three rafagas, which is a very good team, because I can only speak of Argentina and not speak of Egypt, [2:10] and, in the contrary, it's a very good team, it has great players, but we, in the final, [2:16] I think we had three or four clear in the first time that if the game was 2-1 or 3-1, nobody said anything. [2:22] And that's it, when you see that when you see that they don't enter, when you see that they do 2-0, [2:29] when you see that they're comfortable defending, you have to keep, you have to keep, you have to keep, [2:34] you have to keep, you have to keep, you have to keep, you have to keep, [2:35] that was what we said to him in the descans of the water in the minute 25 of the second time, [2:42] keep, keep, keep, keep, until we finish the game, we don't give us a ball for perdida, [2:47] and we keep playing as we know. [2:51] And it happened to us, we could not be able to have them, but I, [2:54] if there's something to lose, I prefer to lose so, without doubt. [2:57] No, no... no, no pasa nada, se pierde de esa manera, [3:01] hay maneras y maneras, o sea, a mí me... me encantaría, [3:05] no digo que me gustaría perder de esta manera, pero me encantaría que se hace, [3:08] que pase de esta manera, con una sensación en la cual el equipo siempre estuvo dando la cara. [3:12] Fede Russo, para el stream room de la TV pública. [3:15] Bueno, hoy sí, te emocionaste, Leo. [3:18] Eh, ¿qué podés decir de Leo Messi? [3:20] Well, I always get emotional. [3:23] What happens is that a lot of times, [3:25] I also get the tears in the vestuario, [3:27] and they tell me the boys, [3:29] even the girls, [3:31] but it doesn't matter, [3:34] because the truth is that, [3:36] for me, [3:38] for the Raton, for Pablo, for Walter, [3:40] for all of those who have played [3:42] for 20 years in football, [3:44] what we feel today is something incredible. [3:48] I don't know what they will think [3:50] but I think that the majority [3:52] who have played football [3:54] has become a coach for today, [3:56] for the adrenaline of [3:58] getting to win something, [4:00] when you lose, [4:02] trying to turn it back. [4:04] That's what we've done all the time, [4:06] and we're going to do it. [4:08] I think that to all my colleagues, [4:11] I told them, [4:13] I told them, [4:15] I told them, [4:17] I told them, [4:19] I told them, [4:21] for those girls who can't believe [4:23] what they are seeing [4:25] and take it as an example. [4:28] No doubt. [4:30] It is wonderful. [4:32] It is wonderful. [4:34] What you see is that, [4:36] because they have been saying that [4:38] it's not an extended deal, [4:40] they are going to go on. [4:42] They are going to turn it back and turn it back. [4:44] and I'm going to put it on the skin of Gallino, [4:48] because not only he, [4:50] and I don't want to talk about him, [4:54] because the other colleagues [4:55] supported him in a way incredible way, [4:58] and that is part of this group, [5:02] this group that I have as head of the group [5:06] have been on, [5:07] and it has been an incredible proof, [5:11] of which you mark, [5:12] even though it may happen to now, [5:14] this marks a way to continue, [5:17] to all those guys that watched the game, [5:21] to all those players that want to play with the Argentina, [5:25] at the end, we are this, [5:26] when I was in the press I said, [5:28] Argentina is this, [5:28] maybe that no is Argentino, [5:30] no lo entiende, [5:31] but I think that the Argentinos understand [5:33] that we are this, [5:33] when everything goes well, [5:35] and when everything is worse, [5:39] we give everything, [5:41] and that is what we try. [5:43] No, [5:45] no because I always saw the game [5:47] that was on our side, [5:48] I think that the team [5:50] was not doing a bad game, [5:51] and if you want, [5:52] we can analyze it together. [5:54] He has situations, [5:56] he has created, [5:59] so one as a player [6:00] suffers when he sees [6:01] that there are no tools, [6:03] the other day with Cabo Verde, [6:05] the game was, [6:07] and with the expectation [6:08] that the game was easy, [6:10] and that everyone thought, [6:11] and I think the other [6:14] was worse [6:15] at the level [6:16] of that we really [6:18] saw complicated in this, [6:20] although it is true, [6:21] I can put it here [6:22] and in minutes 30 and pico [6:23] we were 0-2, [6:25] the feeling was that [6:26] in some moment [6:26] we were going to have one [6:27] and that we could do it [6:28] and when you see [6:31] your team that is fine, [6:32] your team that does [6:34] what really does [6:35] in the game, [6:36] you are more relaxed, [6:37] that I want to reach [6:38] and when you see [6:40] that things are not [6:42] and that it is complicated, [6:43] it is where you are [6:45] worried about it, [6:45] that was the last day, [6:46] the last day, [6:47] the last day was [6:48] character, [6:49] the team, [6:49] but we are not [6:51] as we are today, [6:52] today we are [6:53] we are doing well, [6:54] for me we are [6:54] playing a football [6:54] totally different [6:55] from the last day. [6:57] I don't know [6:58] similar to what [6:58] I can put it, [7:00] but I believe, [7:04] and I don't [7:04] I'm in the head of him, [7:06] but I'm convinced [7:08] that he played football [7:10] for this, [7:13] he is a lover [7:13] of the ball, [7:14] he is a lover [7:15] of the ball, [7:15] he is a lover [7:16] of the ball, [7:16] and that he is [7:17] that emotion [7:18] at this time [7:19] of his career [7:19] is something [7:21] difficult to explain. [7:23] So, [7:25] for luck, [7:26] we always told him [7:27] that we are [7:28] from the other side, [7:28] that you enjoy [7:29] until the last moment, [7:31] because when you [7:32] don't play more, [7:34] you are repenting [7:34] of not having [7:35] enjoyed, [7:36] you are repenting [7:36] of not being [7:37] in a field [7:38] and I think [7:40] that all of that [7:40] they influence, [7:41] they influence, [7:43] they enter [7:44] in the head, [7:44] the fact that [7:45] they are playing [7:46] for your country, [7:48] there are many [7:48] things emotive, [7:49] but I think [7:52] that it has been [7:53] a moment [7:54] inolvidable, [7:55] for me, [7:55] of the best, [7:56] sinceramente, [7:56] of the best, [7:57] even though what [7:57] happened to now, [7:59] I think a lot of [8:01] people, [8:01] of the best, [8:03] that I don't [8:03] have a feeling [8:05] that I've got [8:07] in the head [8:07] that has a feeling [8:09] of a team [8:10] that doesn't [8:11] go and [8:12] with all [8:13] in. [8:14] So, [8:15] well, [8:16] I'm going to [8:19] you [8:20] to be honest, [8:21] I'm always [8:22] I'm sorry, but today much more. [8:24] There are moments in a game where the tactics, the strategy and everything is left. [8:28] And when you see that everything goes to your side, [8:31] like not going to 0-2, [8:34] when you see that the inertia is positive, [8:37] there you go. [8:39] We're going, we're going, we're going, we're going, we're going. [8:42] Because apart from them, they realize that [8:45] there are times that we always talk with the technical team [8:48] and there are times that, not of us, [8:52] there are many games that we have analyzed. [8:54] There are teams that give us the feeling [8:57] that when you receive a goal, [8:58] there is like an aspirator that you hit the ball [9:00] and that will enter. [9:02] That is the second goal in against. [9:04] And this feeling for us, [9:06] was that. [9:08] After the 2-2, [9:10] you have to try to finish it before [9:12] you end the time reglamentary, [9:14] because we had a positive inertia. [9:16] We were a team that didn't look [9:18] where the 5-8 was, [9:20] and we're going, and we're going. [9:22] At the end, I was convinced that [9:24] the football is this. [9:25] After that, yes, [9:26] it's good to see who goes with the 5-5, [9:28] who goes with this, who goes with the other, [9:30] but if you have all that, [9:32] but you don't have this own love that we have today. [9:34] Well, at the end, [9:36] I think the team believed [9:37] that they could win after the match. [9:39] I didn't have to say, [9:40] I didn't have to say, [9:41] I didn't have to say, [9:42] because they did it alone. [9:43] In reality, [9:44] they realized that the game was, [9:46] and, well, [9:47] the title, [9:48] I don't know, [9:49] I don't know, [9:50] I don't know, [9:51] I don't know, [9:52] I don't know, [9:53] but I don't know, [9:56] but I don't know, [9:57] but I don't know, [9:58] I don't know, [9:59] because it's like 15 minutes, [10:00] you're going to lose it, [10:01] I don't know, [10:02] I think in the United States, [10:03] I think I do that [10:04] I don't know [10:05] I do a couple things, [10:06] but I do that. [10:07] No, [10:08] there were a couple of points, [10:09] but isn't it, [10:10] not even the number you say. [10:13] No, Cartel has a name? [10:14] No, no. [10:15] Murales. [10:16] Yes, there it is. [10:17] One of the teams of my Pueblo [10:19] and told me to go on. [10:21] The truth is because [10:22] there were one with the Pueblo [10:25] and one with the other one. [10:26] Yeah, [10:27] too much for my sake. [10:28] No, [10:29] in the middle of my Pueblo [10:30] I have a lot of people, sorry, there's a lot of people. [10:33] Yes, Matienzo, yes. [10:35] But, yeah, anecdotally. [10:38] I went to the other side. [10:40] Well, the other. [10:41] Ah, the team. [10:42] I think, as they say, it's false humildad. [10:48] No it's false or false humildad. [10:50] I mean, if you have a Lautaro Martínez in the bank. [10:52] If you have a Cavallo Gonzalez, [10:54] who ran like a animal and ran, [10:57] what trainer is, [10:58] you can be a mago, we have players, that's the reality, and the players, the players, they put it there, they say three or four things about how we can attack, and you're done. [11:08] It's the reality, it's okay it's in use to me to say here that we won because I met a Lautaro, that he was in all situations of the goal, and who would have done? [11:17] I don't know, no would have done. [11:18] He's losing everything, you need to do it, you need to do it, it's not that they are for doing that, it's the reality. [11:26] They can't put the title that they want, but the reality is that. [11:29] I don't know. [11:31] We're trying to do that with the team, [11:35] that the team flow because they know how to play well. [11:38] But the ones who play are they, that's the reality. [11:41] It's more than evident. [11:43] It's not necessary to put a look at the changes and all that, [11:47] because they play and play. [11:50] Leonel, Gregor Rosselló, for Telefe and Stream Telefe. [11:54] I think there are a lot of games that are in the future. [11:57] You talk a lot about football as a message. [11:59] Today they came back to a 2-0. [12:01] You were still calm, but the rest of us were scared. [12:04] No, but it's not because of the team. [12:06] No, that's not because of the game. [12:08] No, that's not. [12:09] That's not because I'm evident. [12:11] I want to ask you if there is a formula. [12:14] I'm going to ask you, I'm going to ask you in a metaphorical way. [12:16] How did you come back to a 2-0? [12:18] We're from a country where many people are 2-0 below [12:21] and they think they want to reverse the situation. [12:23] How did you do it, pensando in the mentality? [12:25] Well, basically, in thinking that [12:27] until the end of the final, [12:30] it doesn't end. [12:33] And you need players that believe in them. [12:36] I forget about Gonzalo, [12:37] that Gonzalo entered and was 9-9 in the goal. [12:39] That's the one that was going back to Leo in the goal. [12:41] I didn't tell you to Gonzalo. [12:44] When the game comes back to 9, [12:46] it's going back to 9. [12:47] No, no. [12:48] I need players that think they can send out, [12:52] but they know they can give up, [12:53] those that, [12:55] they know that if they don't lose, [12:56] then lose. [12:57] What is the problem? [12:58] So we, we're going back to Argentina [13:00] everyone gave the candidate and left out in the eighth of the finals, [13:04] tomorrow, again, we have to continue. [13:08] And that to me makes you feel more relaxed. [13:10] In the sense that I'm sad, I'm complicated because I haven't passed this phase [13:16] of the eighth of the finals, but if you think that really no happens [13:20] and that the only thing you can do is give joy to your people [13:23] and that you have to think that 90 minutes will be at the maximum, [13:27] you leave it to do what really is going on in the game. [13:29] Well, enseñanza, más que enseñanza es duplicar lo que tengo [13:37] o que pienso que lo que es el fútbol. [13:41] El fútbol es, sí, táctica, estrategia, pero también corazón, instinto, [13:49] no dar un balón por perdido hasta que el árbitro no lo dice, [13:52] porque yo muchas veces lo hemos escuchado, hasta que el árbitro [13:55] no dé el final no se terminan los partidos, pero hay que llevarlo a cabo. [13:59] Entonces, bueno, un poco duplicar lo que yo pienso de esto, o sea, [14:06] reforzar, duplicar, no me salía la palabra, reforzar lo que uno piensa del fútbol [14:11] al final, tanto como cuando vas ganando el partido no está terminado [14:14] como cuando vas perdiendo. [14:18] No, no, preferencias no, siempre dijimos lo mismo, [14:21] no preferimos jugar contra uno u otro, al contrario, [14:24] son dos selecciones grandes, Colombia ya sabemos lo bien que está, [14:29] lo complicado que siempre fue para nosotros, [14:31] y Suiza tiene una tradición increíble de mundiales, [14:34] y tiene grandísimos jugadores que tienen experiencias en mundiales, [14:38] así que lo que toque será, y lo veremos por, bueno, si podemos, por tele. [14:42] Gracias, entrenadores, a todos. [14:44] Gracias.