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Relationship between José Néstor Pékerman Yes Lionel Messi it has many chapters; However, the first contact between the two took an unexpected turn for “10”. And the Argentine strategist detailed how he detected fleas when he was part of the staff of the lower categories of GRANDMOTHER to “steal” it later from the selective Spain.
It must be remembered that it was Pekerman which started MESS a World Cup with the largest selection of Argentine, as it was in his play Germany 2006.
“I practically stole it from Spain. What I saw about some videos, both Claudio Vivas, who talked to Toncalli, and I already had some reports about a little boy from Rosario … At that moment I left the national team, in 2002, and I went to Spain, to work in Leganes. There I saw him playing for the Barça youth. In FIFA there was a regulation that has already changed, which said that a player who was active in youth teams could not play in any other country. I made the strategy for the South American to play, because the European was coming too and in Spain he did not go unnoticed and was going to play with the Spanish team “, he said in an interview given to TNT Sports.
“His parents let him decide. And his words were: “I’m Argentine and I want to play in Argentina”. It was his decision, of feeling, of heart. Because they made the decision to go so small in Spain, a challenge. All the decisions were of this type and now he has to do that, to do everything possible to be happy. “
Why didn’t Pékerman use Messi against Germany in 2006?
Likewise, the strategist indicated that in that World Cup he chose to leave MESS on the bench because he thought it wasn’t his World Cup.
I explained: You will be the best in the world, I see that. But this World Cup will not be yours yet. You will play all the minutes you can have depending on the match situations. But it will help you listen, learn … Come closer, let go because the World Cup will be in South Africa. And you will play for many years in the national team “, he concluded.