Lionel Scaloni’s ambition after the title of the Argentine team in the World Cup: “I don’t think we have to rest on our laurels”

passed 19 days of the final that the National Team beat France in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and lionel scaloni He continues to keep his feet on the ground, while he thinks about his next goals and savors the title that brought glory back to Argentina after 36 years.

From his home in Palma de Mallorca, the champion DT is resuming his usual rhythm of life after spending the year-end festivities in his native Pujato, where he celebrated with his people what they had achieved in Arab lands. “It is all very recent and you are realizing the magnitude on a day-to-day basis, when you find friends, and especially in Spain, which is not my country of birth and is not the one that won the World Cup. You see how it hit them too and you realize the magnitude. That is where one begins to think about what was achieved, but I believe that in time we will realize even more of what we have achieved”, highlighted Scaloni in an interview published in the newspaper The opinion from La Coruna.

With his usual calm, the driver of the staggered The foam drops in the face of such success and they prefer to focus on the day to day: “Life goes on, you have to keep working, people continue to have their job, my family and friends are there… Everything remains the same. I’m pretty balanced about that. I’m not thinking every day about what was achieved, not at all. She thinks about what’s coming. The most important thing is what comes next, always. I don’t think we should rest on our laurels.”

The coach of 44 years took the reins of the Argentine national team after a failure in the 2018 World Cup in Russia under the command of Jorge Sampaoli, of whom he was one of the assistants. Ruthless criticism of his inexperience was not long in coming, but his goal was always clear and he did not give up his search.

“The day I decided to be a coach, back in 2011, when I was still playing, I was clear about my way of understanding football and it will continue to be the same, either by winning a World Cup or managing any other team. I think you don’t have to weigh the responsibility because it was won now. Unlike. You have to continue the same and I think that in the end the work pays off”he remarked in dialogue with the media from the city where he shone as a footballer in Spain with the Depor in 9 seasons.

Other outstanding phrases of Lionel Scaloni.

“I think it will be remembered as the World Cup in Argentina, which is the important thing. Beyond the individual, the important thing is that a country that is a soccer fan like few others won. I would say that the greatest exponent of world football is Argentina and to be back at the top is the triumph of all and that must be rescued. An entire country was behind a National Team and that was very exciting”.

“Training your country’s national team is something unique. There is no greater thing in the world. I don’t think it compares to anything, that’s obvious.”

“There is responsibility in the sense of belonging, the desire to want to do things as well as possible because you are not only a soccer coach but you are also a highly recognized person, with which the boys will see themselves reflected in the behaviors behind from a country”.

“You can play one way or another, but the way of understanding football, of never giving anything up, of not settling, are values ​​that I think this National Team has, these guys have. We try to improve, if possible. The truth is that it was and is a pleasure to train these guys”.

“We, my family and I, are eternally grateful to Spain. Logically, in La Coruña I spent the best years and it was the first place I arrived and where I became a man, that is evident. I was very well in Santander, it is a city very similar to Coruña, with a similar climate and very warm and respectful people. And in Palma de Mallorca I am fine. I chose to live here, a place where you go unnoticed, the people are very calm. But it is evident that the country in general is like my second home because it is where I spent most of my life. The truth is that I’m fine here.”

– “I imagine that those people today in La Coruña will say that Scaloni was one of those who always pushed forward and that he did not give up anything. In the end, I think it’s a bit what has been reflected in the World Cup. In moments of uncertainty, very difficult moments, the team never stopped believing and it is a bit of the mark that this team has.”

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