The former Colo Colo player takes aim at national fans who are hoping that the Albiceleste will not win the Copa América title.
The finalists for the 2024 Copa America in the United States have already been decided, with Argentina and Colombia looking to lift the continental trophy this Sunday.
The Albiceleste appear as the favourites to win the cup, a situation that, according to Marcelo Barticciotto, the Chileans do not want.
“I didn’t mean to say that, but it hurts me, because I love this country, like I love Argentina, so it hurts me because there are idiots everywhere. ” he commented in a dialogue with ESPN.
“Here they hate Argentina, here they want any other team to win before Argentina, they hate them ” he added later.
He then noted that “Here they say that the World Cup was rigged, that the Copa America in Brazil was also rigged, so everything was rigged. “, he concluded on the subject.
Of course, this is not the only topic he addressed. The Copa Libertadores champion with Colo Colo in 1991 also had words for Carlos Palacios in the face of possible interest from Boca Juniors.
“It seems to me that this may not be Palacios’ best moment. “But it is not uncommon that when Riquelme gets a player into his head, he ends up hiring him, the problem goes there, we put it in his head, he must like it and finally he is not going to stop until he hires him,” he said.
He added: “I don’t know what position they’ll want him for. What happens is that for Argentine football you have to not only play, but also impose yourself. If you don’t impose yourself, they don’t do it. That doesn’t give you a place, especially at Boca Juniors.
Finally, he said that “nOr you will win your place like that because here you were a figure or you did well, there you have to impose yourself and you will have three or four behind who will be the teeth waiting for your position, if you relax, they will eat you “.
Advisor Alexis Sanchez
On the other hand, Barticciotto suggested that Alexis Sánchez should have more humility in the face of criticism. “Footballers, at some point, and I have fought against this, believe that we are the center of the world. That we are the most important. Being humble is one of the most important values for me, there is no need to rub yourself or throw in your face what you have accomplished, because it is known. . Who doesn’t know that Alexis has broken all the records. He could have broken many more too, there are players who have won much more than him,” commented the former 7.
“Then you have to be humble, beyond everything they have won and everything they have won, you can’t put it in the face of other people who haven’t won,” he added.
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