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The relationship between José Néstor Pékerman Y Lionel Messi it has many chapters; However, first contact between the two took an unexpected turn for the ’10’. And it is that the Argentine strategist detailed how he discovered the flea when he was part of the staff of the lower categories of the OPA to ‘steal’ it later from the selective Spain
It must be remembered that it was Pékerman which debuted Messi in a world cup with the largest selection of Argentina, as it was in the joust from Germany 2006
We practically stole it from SpainWhat we had seen from some videos, both Claudio Vivas speaking to Toncalli, and we already had some reports from a little boy from Rosario … At that point I had left the national team, in 2002, and went to Spain , to work in Leganés. There we saw him play for the youth of Barça. There was a regulation in FIFA that had already changed that said that a player who was active in the youth teams could not play in the absolute of another country. We made the strategy for the South American to play, because the European came too and in Spain he did not go unnoticed and started playing with the Spanish team ”, he said in an interview with TNT Sports.
His parents let him decide. And his words were: ‘I am Argentinian and I want to play in Argentina’It was his decision, of feeling, of the heart. Because they also made the decision to go to Spain so small, a challenge. All decisions were of that type and now he has to do that, do his best to be happy. “
Why didn’t Pékerman use Messi against Germany in 2006?
Likewise, the strategist indicated that there world cup chose to leave Messi on the couch because he thought it wasn’t his World Cup.
Yo explained: ‘You will be the best in the world, I can see that. But this World Cup still won’t be yoursYou are going to play all the minutes you can have according to the situations of the matches. But it will help you to listen, to learn … Come closer, let it go, because your World Cup will be the one in South Africa. And you will play in the national team for many years ”, he concluded.