The controversy between Rayados de Monterrey and Inter Miami, had another page this Friday when he revealed through some audios attributed to the Argentine assistant of the Monterrey squad, Nicolás Sánchez, that the Argentine star Lionel Messi was like a devil when it came to asking him for some details What happened in the match between both teams in the first leg of the Concachampions quarterfinals
From the outset, Monterrey’s technical assistant, the Argentine Nicolás Sánchez, publicly stated that not only Lionel Messi, but also the coach of Inter Miami, also Argentine Gerardo Martino, intimidated him in the locker room of the city of Miami stadium, after he made some observations to the CONCACAF commissioners, for the way Messi insulted the referees of the meeting along the tunnel to the Chase Stadium locker room.
In these audios released by the Fox Sports channel You can clearly hear where Nicolás Sánchez stated the following: “Messi wanted to fight me. I don’t think he wanted to hit me because otherwise he would have hit me, because he had me an centimeter away. He put his fist next to my face. I think he was looking for my reaction.”
Nicolás Sánchez, former Monterrey player and now a member of the Monterrey squad’s coaching staff, He also reported that his idea was to even ask for an autograph from a player on the poster of his compatriot Lionel Messi, but the security staff of the North American team prevented him from doing so, just when the whistlers appeared on the scene and both Messi and Martino left with everything. to complain about their performance in the first leg of the Concachampions quarterfinals between Inter Miami vs. Monterey
“When the game ended I went down to the locker room and saw Messi a meter away from me. I approached to ask Messi for a photo and security stopped me. I saw that Messi was very hot and the referees were coming in; Messi faced them and told them everything, about everything and next to him, ‘Tata’ Martino. There were people from CONCACAF there and I told them that if we did that, they would throw us all out,” he explained.
Nicolás Sánchez also said that it will be very difficult for the videos to be made known. where it is observed how Messi and Martino acted out of character against the whistlers, since that would exhibit the unsportsmanlike image of the two members of Inter Miami.
In another part of his story, Nicolás Sánchez assured that in the claims of Messi and “Tata” Martinowere so high that at one point he thought they would attack him, but in the end it did not escalate, although within the threats and attitudes of Messi and Martino, both seemed out of control.
“’Tata’ told me everything and Messi appeared and wanted to eat me raw. I didn’t even look at him, but the dwarf was possessed, he had the face of the devil and put his fist at his side ‘who do you think you are, who, talk to me’. I never answered, but it was worse. After ‘Tata’, that idiot, he only told me ‘you’re going to cry so much, you’re going to cry so much’. The videos, of course, were deleted because they left them in a very bad position,” he said.
Within this whole controversial matter, yesterday the version circulated that the Rayados de Monterrey board had filed a formal protest for these events, without it being known so far whether there will be a sanction of suspension of matches or a financial amount against Lionel Messi and the rest of those involved with Inter Miami such as coach Gerardo Martino and even the Spanish Jordi Alba.
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