He stole a Copa América from Messi and Argentina, now he filled them with praise

The Argentine National Team has maintained a great presence in recent years, being the current champion of the Copa América, the Finalissima and the World Cup. Those sad memories were very distant for argentinian fans of long periods without titles and several lost finals in between. In the last few hours, Argentina's executioner in one of those many Copa América finals, referred to the performance in Qatar 2022 and showered the big star with praise.

With little experience as a coach and after the disastrous experience in Russia 2018, Lionel Scaloni took over as the main coach of the Argentinian National Team and with so many titles in a short time he generated a revolution worldwide. But not only because of the results and the undefeated record achieved at the head of the national team, but also because of the ways in which his cycle has been characterized, which has now reached five years at the head coach.

The present achieved with Scaloni as head coach makes those years in which sporting failures accumulated in the southern country and a 28-year drought without titles with several lost finals seem very distant. Among them, several definitions of the continental tournament organized by CONMEBOL accumulate in Argentina's black history. Now, the rival coach in the 2007 final referred, with praise, to the performance of the Argentine National Team in Qatar 2022 and there was no shortage of praise for the best footballer in the world.

The coach who stole a Copa América from Argentina and filled Messi with praise

One of the many finals lost by the Argentinian National Team during its long drought was in the Copa América 2007, where it lost by a landslide against a Brazil led by Dunga. And it was recently that the former Verdeamarelha coach referred to the national performance in Qatar 2022, in a talk with DSports Radio: “For those of us who like football, the final against France was wonderful and fantastic. Everyone played at a very high level and Messi was decisive as always. It was very nice to watch the determination with which they played. “They understood that they had to play for Messi and both were important to achieve the goal".