Mario Kempes's sentence on the whistles to Messi at PSG: “You have to break it, that's what you get paid for and if you don't dedicate yourself to another profession”

Mario Alberto Kempes is an authoritative word to talk about the National Team and the team's references. In 1978, Matador won the World Cup held in Argentina, where he was the goalscorer and chosen as the best player of the tournament. The Cordovan analyzed the present of the team led by Lionel Scaloni and what are its possibilities at the next World Cup in Qatar 2022. But it was thoroughly when they consulted him by Lionel Messi, about the whistles he received at PSG and what his future should be.

La Pulga and all his teammates were booed in the home match against Bordeaux for Ligue 1, in which his team thrashed 3-0, but most of the fans did not forgive them the elimination in the Champions League round of 16 at the hands of Real Madrid, after winning the first leg (1-0) and losing the second leg (1-3).

“They whistled me too, they told me everything and threw oranges at me in Valencia, but I never lowered my arms. It is a result of the results. People always expect the best from you. You can give it your best, but since you're on a team they're all in the same bag. No one is saved: neither the best nor the worst. That Messi didn't make the mistakes, perfect or someone else made them, too. Either everyone wins or everyone loses. You have to bank it, it's not all rosy. The results rule and if the public doesn't like it, you have to put up with it, that's why you get paid and you sign a contract and otherwise dedicate yourself to another profession,” said the former striker in an interview with the program Super Deportivo Radio on Radio Villa Trinidad (FM 97.9).

“I was always very respectful because people who pay the entrance fee have the right to kick, that gives them the signature. Things are black or white. The public is always right in the world and has the right to complain if you don't play well,” added former Rosario Central footballer River and Spain's Valencia, among other clubs.

Messi's situation changed since the defeat to the merengue team and although he has a contract with the Parisian cast until June 2023, it will be necessary to see what decision he makes for his future. On the subject, Kempes. “If Messi is tired at PSG, he must resolve his situation and see what he wants to do. He has a rather long contract with Paris. I don't know if in Barcelona they will welcome him with open arms or differently, because he left in a way that nobody expected and now he would return in a way that no one expects. It's complicated,” said Kempes, 67.

“I see Messi's face and I see a lot of concern. Not only because I see him with the PSG shirt, what worries me is seeing that face of Messi thinking about what he can do in the Argentine national team. Whether he wins or loses with Paris, or whether he plays in Barcelona or in Madrid, I don't care about five cucumbers. The only thing I want Messi at 200 percent in the Argentine national team. Don't get hurt. I want it to arrive in the best way from both the roof (head) and the floor in the best way. As is said well in the head and well physically”, he stressed.

“Paris is not Barcelona. In Barcelona he was king, in Paris he is not as happy as when he was in Barcelona. He is still the king of the world, which happens that the results are not happening and that affects him, even if his smile comes out at any time. I don't think Messi will last as long at PSG if things continue as they do now,” he said.

Kempes played three World Cups for the National Team in Germany 1974, Argentina 1978 and Spain 1982. During the eight of the process led by César Luis Menotti, he was one of the top referents and analyzed the chances of Albiceleste in Qatar: “I always hope that the Argentine team will go further and that victories will continue to be won and especially the world title will continue to be won. This team is different, you know what it is to win, I see it differently than the previous team. It has other qualities. It has been said a lot that the previous National Team was a selection of friends rather than teammates and those friends later on the court did not see each other”.

He stressed that “this National Team has personality and has Messi as a reference, but when they have to play (Messi's teammates) they play. I see her differently because she has no dependence on Messi. There are players with different abilities than what was seen in the previous teams. They have Messi as a reference and when they need it they have it available. It's not that Messi is a point and apart. He is the best player in the world and is needed in the national team, but in every minute of the 90 or 120 ″.

“I hope Argentina will be champion. There are many possibilities that it has, from what I have seen, there is no selection that says 'Wow! This is the future champion. ' I put the card for Argentina, but I put it very carefully,” he said.

Although he asks that you keep your feet on the ground: “Let's go easy. Let us not be wrong as we always were wrong and do not believe that by winning the Copa America we can be world champions. World Cup is not won very easily, we have two and it has been a long time since this. This group won a Copa America, but neither did they win two World Cups in a row. Winning a Copa America allows you to face the World Cup in a different way.”

And he praised the previous point guard of the Argentine team beyond the fact that they did not win a title: “The previous team was the best of all, which for me was the best for ten years, nothing was won and three finals were reached, but nothing won.”

Finally, he hopes that Messi will finally be able to lift the trophy on December 21. “I wouldn't change anything to see Messi world champion. I think Messi would deserve to be world champion with Argentina, but the deserves must be made. 'I deserve to be a millionaire because I play the lottery every day. ' But it's not like that. Messi is going to have to fight her with new teammates and camaraderie, as happened in Brazil, but not second but first”, he concluded.

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