Menotti liquidates Louis van Gaal: “He plays the atomic sage and he was left as an asshole”

louis van gaal was left in the eye of the storm after belittling Lionel Messi in the preview of Argentina-Netherlands and ended up being confronted by the ‘Albiceleste’ captain himself, who asked him for respect face to face after eliminating his team in the quarterfinals of the world. In this regard, he spoke Cesar Luis Menottihistorical former coach of the Argentine team, and did not leave his Dutch colleague standing well.

“They didn’t charge van Gaal, they stopped his car because he said nonsense”, began clarifying the world champion coach in 1978 in command of Argentina. “You cannot comment on the courage and intensity of the opponent, who plays the atomic wise man, messed with the players, ended up like an asshole”, he said in dialogue with Radio Miter.

“If I’m going to play against Van Gaal, I’m going to say that he’s a good coach, I’m not going to say that he’s an idiot… He’s half gaga, it seems to me, he’s very big and he said a lot of bullshit”, sentenced Menotti.

Messi had celebrated in front of the DT doing a ‘Topo Gigio’, putting both hands to his ears with the palms open to simulate big ears like those of the child character. A defiant gesture that in the imagination of the Argentine fan is linked to the former soccer player Juan Román Riquelme.

Messi was asked about it as he passed through the mixed zone of the Lusail stadium. “They are things of the moment, of the party”, began the Paris Saint-Germain striker, before admitting to whom he had dedicated it: the Dutch coach, Louis Van Gaal.

“I was angry about the pre-game because a coach like Van Gaal, with the experience he has, with the matches and the battle he has had throughout his career, to speak the way he spoke, to disrespect the way he disrespected the respect… I think it didn’t have to be that way. It doesn’t make sense and I felt that I had disrespected the Argentine team”, he added.