AFA Estudio gathered five players from Argentina’s 2022 World Cup-winning team: Lautaro Martínez, Alexis Mac Allister, Enzo Fernández, Emiliano Martínez, and Gonzalo Montiel. They looked back at the tournament, match by match, and shared memories of their amazing journey to becoming champions in Qatar.
The first photo was from the opening match, showing the first goal in the surprising 1-2 loss to Saudi Arabia. It sparked some playful teasing toward Emi Martínez, with his teammates joking, “You could have done more,” as they laughed. Dibu joined in, saying, “I was caught cold; it was the first shot of the tournament,” making everyone laugh even harder.
Emiliano Martínez then added:
“That goal didn’t bother me much. I thought, okay, it’s 1-1, we’ll recover. But the second goal, that one really affected me.”
The second photo showed Enzo Fernández celebrating his amazing goal in the 2-0 win against Mexico. Lautaro Martínez added, “We were really struggling at that point.”
Enzo reflected on that moment and said, “I never imagined scoring in a World Cup. I didn’t even think I would be there, so it was unbelievable.” His teammates didn’t let him off the hook, though, as Alexis Mac Allister teased, “He started blowing up like crazy,”
and Dibu jumped in, “Yeah, his Instagram blew up too,” which sent everyone into laughter.
The third photo showed Emiliano Martínez’s key penalty save against the Netherlands in the quarterfinal shootout. Dibu explained, “I had seen Van Dijk take a penalty in the FA Cup final against Chelsea. Kepa moved to one side, and Van Dijk still shot in that direction. I figured he’d do the same here. But after that save, I had back pain for a year from how I landed.”
Another photo from that match was Lautaro Martínez celebrating his winning penalty. The group remembered how Lautaro was struggling with injuries during the tournament. “He was in bad shape,” they said, and Dibu recalled that Lautaro had to get his ankle treated before playing against Poland.
Alexis Mac Allister admitted, “After the Netherlands game, I really felt we had a chance to win the trophy.”
They also talked about other moments, like Montiel’s winning penalty in the final, Dibu Martínez kissing the Best Goalkeeper trophy, Lautaro’s tense moment with Dutch goalkeeper Noppert before taking his penalty, and what each of them felt during the celebrations.
“Two years after the final of our lives, five of those warriors come together to relive the eternal album,” said AFA’s official streaming channel. “A moment to remember forever,” it added, describing the chat where the players revealed untold stories of their journey
to winning Argentina’s third World Cup.
Nico iz really good but, we av gonzalec from juve and tatty from Lazio are all too good,
I am still not impressed with Garnacho. I hardly see him dribbling pass any player which is greatly require as a winger. On left side for Argentina characteristically all of the winger had face and tricks to dribble past any player. Garnacho has pace maybe but he barely beat anyone in 1v1! He hardly take on any players! I see here people are so unhappy when he ain’t playing believe he ain’t ready for NT he is lucky we lacking any good players at this position right now some of them coming but they young
Nico paz is ten times better than Garnacho and overexaggerating
Same with the hype surrounding Barco. He hasnt done anything outside posing with his GF on IG.
Lisandro Martinez’s had another poor game! He is a really missing a solid CB partner like Romero or Varane alongside him. Last match he was above average but today he was very poor with his new CB partners. At this form Harry Maguire & Yoro will start ahead of him.
Hopefully Amad’s recent run of form will burn fire in Garnacho in a positive way. Sometimes when you are competing with your teammate to start it really brings the best out of you, especially who used to be a regular starter and is benched by his direct competition. Additionally, he seems to have made amends with the new manager which is extremely important if he is to stay in United.
Celebrations is not over yet!
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