By Humberto Viera
Sep 18, 2024, 4:47 PM EDT
Lionel Scaloni, coach of the Argentine National Team, was invited to Juan Pablo Varsky’s Clank! podcast, where, towards the end of the conversation, he showed a more emotional side when talking about the delicate situation of his parents.
“The biggest thorn in my side about achieving all this is that I don’t know if they understand the magnitude of what we have achieved. Because of their condition, because they are not in the way that one would like and that is what tormented me all that year after winning the World Cup because they must have been the happiest people in the world,” Scaloni said with emotion, recalling how much it would mean to him if his parents fully understood the success achieved.
Scaloni also recalled a press conference at the end of 2023, after beating Brazil in the qualifiers, in which he had cast doubts on his future. He explained that it was all related to his parents’ health situation.
“My old man is a guy who lived for us, for my brother and me, everything he has done in his life has been for us to be footballers and he supported us in everything. My old lady too, she followed my dad everywhere like my wife follows me now,” explained Scaloni.
Visibly moved, Scaloni said that it would make him very happy to know that both of them were aware of what he achieved in Qatar. “For me it would be the greatest gift that life has given me. I think so, sometimes they show it and sometimes they don’t, but these are things that happen in life.”
His parents, Ángel and Eulalia, are already over 80 years old, and Ángel, due to health problems, was unable to travel to Qatar to watch the World Cup live, a fact that deeply saddened the coach.
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