After the defeat in the debut of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, Esteban Bullrich sent a few words of encouragement to the Argentine team: “What matters is the attitude we take”

The former Minister of Education of the Nation, Esteban Bullrich, dedicated a reflection and words of encouragement today to the Argentine team after the defeat against Saudi Arabia. “An unexpected fall, a disconcerting defeat are a test of character and resilience in football and in life”, considered the former national senator, who reinforced: “What matters is what attitude we take in the face of these tests”.

In this sense, Bullrich also evaluated: “The national team has to succeed, we have infinite reasons for hope.” “Come on Argentina!”, he harangued.

After an expected debut, the Argentine team fell today against Saudi Arabia in their first match of group C. After the defeat 2 to 1 against selected from the Middle East, the team captain, Lionel Messi, He analyzed what happened in the confrontation. “There are no excuses”, asserted the 10, who scored the only goal of the team he leads Lionel Scaloniand forward stated: “We will have to show that we are a real group.”

In the mixed zone he also printed a strong self-criticism and revealed how they lived in costumes the fall. “[Estamos] dead, it is a very hard blow, we did not expect to start like this ”, said.

The man from Rosario who plays for PSG said that in the National Team they knew they were up against a team with “Good players”what “he moved the ball well” and advanced the line. “We had worked on it, that’s why we had many situations of goals that annulled us. Maybe We don’t find the right moment not to fall into the trap, they do very well [eso de] throw the line and stop”, Messi maintained regarding the rival’s game, during a talk with the media after the game in which he was .

However, he assumed the bad performance of the team when they asked him about the interference that the system of semi-automatic VAR used in Doha, after Argentina had three goals disallowed. “So many things are said about VAR; Today it happened like that and that’s it, there are no excuses,” Messi said.