Maradona's Parallel History... Scenes You Missed From The Qatar World Cup Final: A 12 Weeks Old Hug

The rolling clip, which was watched by more than two million people from only one account, begins with Gonzalo Montiel taking the final penalty kick, then the lens moves directly to Scaloni, and the following seconds here are worth studying.

As soon as Scaloni appears in the clip, we realize that Montiel has already shot the penalty and that Argentina has become world champions because we see the movements of the administrators and members of the coaching staff in the background. Still, the man remains squinted in focus for a few seconds, his arms crossed on his chest, as if analyzing a complex tactical situation during The match, then a shy smile appears on his face as the physical trainer, approaches him, and embraces him warmly, embracing his head, then turns him away from the cameras, shouting in his ears in phrases that no one understands, while Scaloni pats his buttocks nervously.

Then comes Pablo Aimar, the former Valencia star and one of the assistants, to jump on the duo screaming. Scaloni still avoided eye contact with everyone, with a head looking at the grass below, then withdrew and headed to the bench, trying to control his tears. He takes a sip of water and then gets up, and at that moment, he breaks down crying, disbelieving what he has just realized.

Surprisingly, it wasn't Scaloni's first shot that way. After the Croatia match, and during the celebrations, the camera that followed Messi showed the moment he approached his coach, and it was very strange in turn; Scaloni was standing in almost the same position on the field, and he noticed Messi coming to congratulate him, but he seemed suspicious that Messi was really heading towards him, so he kept looking in front of him avoiding looking into his eyes, with the same calm expression on his face, until Messi actually embraced him, and then patted his buttocks in the way the same nervousness.

In an audio clip that spread a few days after the final, Hernan Casciari, the Catalan Argentinian who owns the famous “Messi the Dog Man” clip, used a very romantic phrase to describe the coronation scene: “We have never seen a simple man on top of the world.”

The other Lionel, Lionel Scaloni, was a simple man on top of the world in turn, much simpler than Messi, but the duo share the fact that both were victims of Maradona in some way.

Days later, another clip of Diego appeared before his death in an anonymous press conference publicly insulting Lionel Scaloni, claiming that the Argentines are crazy just for thinking of him as a coach and that the only World Cup Scaloni can go to is the Motorcycle World Cup. The last phrase was said amid the laughter of the audience of journalists and correspondents. Click here for the video

It is believed that Diego was not sober when he made these statements. Of course, this is always a possibility whenever Maradona talks, but we can't say for sure. The important thing is that Scaloni was under similar pressure, with a shorter life than that experienced by Messi, because of the man himself; Which Argentines insist on being the god of football.

In fact, nothing expresses Maradona's power in Argentina other than the fact that he had the audacity to criticize any coach after what he did in 2010. Scaloni is not a brilliant coach, and the criteria for choosing him to lead the national team have a thousand question marks, exactly like his assistants Aimar, Samuel and Ayala, who have had little experience before. But even if Scaloni had never kicked a single ball in his life, he would not have come to the point of receiving coaching tips from Maradona, let alone insults.

This is the scene that many missed in that snapshot, which was watched by more than two million people from just one account.

The saddest thing about this scene is that Scaloni himself said before the group stage match with Mexico that Maradona would watch the national team from heaven, and that they were waiting for his inspiration to overcome the difficult situation after losing to Saudi Arabia in the opening match. This is the degree of how crushed Argentines are in front of the man.

This is what gives you the feeling that there is another Maradona that everyone is always talking about except for the man who has only spoken and done nonsense since his retirement, as if the real Maradona, who breathed, interacted and spoke every day until his death, is nothing but an expression of another hypothetical value, unrealized in reality as if his disappointing true version does not satisfy their ambitions.

In fact, we do not think that describing him as "the man" is accurate; We are talking about a supernatural legal entity, which the Argentines transformed over time, with their full will, into a tyrant, into a corpse that lies on the chest of everyone who is led by the misfortune to play in the national team or train it, and with time, the absurd vicious circle closed on everyone; The constant hope that this or that will be the next Maradona, then anger and hysteria with the first frustration, mixed with a hidden sense of satisfaction that their imaginary legend has not been scratched by repetition, then settling in that safe, comfortable space until another miserable person comes along with whom they repeat the cycle.

With time and successive frustrations across the different generations of Argentina, the Argentines realized that the imaginary picture they kept in their heads about the past was unattainable, and instead of actually pondering it, or prompting them to think, they succumbed to the fact that the only role of the present in their lives was to glorify and lament the past.

Because time will not produce another Maradona, or rather what they think and imagine Maradona is and was. The hysterical part, in all meanings of the word hysterical, Maradona isn't remotely close to that image nor was he ever.