00:00Let's talk about this Argentina. Candidate number one to win the Copa America lost only two games of 61 in the last five years.
00:08Uruguay in the qualifiers and Saudi Arabia in the World Cup.
00:12Lionel Messi will become the first footballer in history to play seven finals with his team.
00:18And here they are still questioning him for the Ballon d'Or.
00:21An Argentina that played six of the last eight finals of international teams tournaments.
00:28In 2014 in the World Cup, 2015 and 2016 in the Copa America.
00:32In 2021 he won the Copa America.
00:35In 2022 he won the World Cup.
00:38And now he's playing the Copa America final again.
00:42Is this Argentina team already a team of its time, Oscar?
00:48He's starting to do it, he's starting to do it.
00:50With those numbers that we have just said, perhaps some comparison that we may have.
00:55Now, who do we see?
00:57Remembering the brilliant moments of Argentina.
01:00World Cup 78, champion.
01:02It is true that then comes a youth World Cup that at that time caught the attention because they won it with Maradona.
01:07With the duo already with Menotti as a coach who had not taken him to the World Cup 78, he had not had him in his country.
01:12But then he faints and looks bad in the next World Cup.
01:15Or the 86, the great Maradona, the great selection of Maradona.
01:19That after Maradona participated in the Copa America but he never did well.
01:22He was there three times, he never won it.
01:25But he reaches a second consecutive World Cup final, the one he loses to Germany in the 90.
01:30And now there is this one, which with these numbers obviously the other two he says with permission.
01:35And having Messi, which in the context of the Argentine team is still the axis by which this team moves.
01:42The others, his teammates, are willing to kill themselves the ninety-odd minutes of a game as long as Messi continues to shine.
01:49For me, Canito de Toca, I think this Argentina is of the time, it is a great, great team.
01:55They say that football is of moments.
01:58And at this moment we are going to be very realistic.
02:00If you compare the Conmebol teams with the European teams, I don't know if they have the same level of football that they showed in Qatar 20-22.
02:09Where they won the World Cup.
02:11Evidently, I don't think they are on par with other teams.
02:15For example, like Spain, like Germany, like France.
02:21Conmebol will always be a favorite, we all know that.
02:25But today, Tocayo, we are going to be very honest.
02:28Do you think Argentina is above Uruguay, above Colombia?
02:32Well, they are in the final.
02:33But in terms of football?
02:34Well, but not only that.
02:37Let's see, the road was not so difficult to get to the final.
02:41It was not so complicated.
02:42Well, they are going to face Colombia in the final.
02:44And do you doubt that Argentina can beat them?
02:46Yes, I do doubt.
02:48Ah, so you don't see it with the ability to be a champion.
02:51It is of time, it is of time.
02:52They won the Copa America, they won the World Cup.
02:54But this Argentina of these moments, Tocayo, I insist, football is of moments.
02:58It generates a lot of doubts for me.
03:00Because they have not demanded it either.
03:02Well, we will see against Colombia.
03:04Colombia is a great team.
03:06For me, the best team with Nebol today, playing like this.
03:10Do you know which was the last game Colombia lost after this undefeated streak?
03:14Yes.
03:15In qualifiers against Argentina.
03:18Yes, yes, yes.
03:19But they have 28 undefeated games against Colombia.
03:20We have to respect Argentina.
03:22And also Colombia, Tocayo.
03:23Messi, current world champion, current Copa America champion.
03:28Let's listen to Escaloni, I think, the coach of the national team.
03:33Let's see what he says about what is coming in this final.
03:39It is very difficult to reach another final.
03:41And above all, how we come from all the compliments, all the success.
03:48And that costs double.
03:50It is a feeling of happiness, but also of concern.
03:56Let's see if it is understood.
03:58Because everything costs much more, much more.
04:01Now it seems to me, and I don't know if you agree, I put it on the table.
04:05In this Argentina of Messi, you have to do a before and after.
04:09Because there are two teams.
04:11One that reached the finals and could not win it.
04:14Until what happened in that second Copa America that they cannot win.
04:19And now this team where there is a generational change, but it is still commanded by Messi.
04:25And that already won.
04:26And that has two titles.
04:28This Messi team.
04:29Yes, you make a perfectly defined middle part.
04:33Indeed, Argentina did not win anything since 1993.
04:37It reaches the end of 2014.
04:39In the World Cup we speak.
04:41But it loses to Germany.
04:42And it seemed that it was the point of inflexion downwards.
04:46But even with what happens in the World Cup in Russia, where it is quickly eliminated in the round of 16.
04:50There it seemed that that generation was over.
04:52That Messi was over.
04:53That everything was over.
04:54It has surprised as in years where Messi is no longer so lucid physically.
04:59But yes, in the head.
05:00It is where it grows again.
05:01And that they have built a team in which it allows him to continue shining.
05:04Without the need to wear so much.
05:06And that they managed to recover.
05:08Because those constructive defeats against Chile were devastating.
05:11It is also true that Messi had renounced the national team.
05:13We have been very unfair with an Argentine footballer.
05:16And we have not talked about him.
05:17That he is retiring.
05:18No, no, no.
05:19And that maybe in one of those he can be a candidate to win the Ballon d'Or.
05:22No, no, no.
05:23You are exaggerating.
05:24Lautaro.
05:25Ah, ah, ah.
05:26I thought we were talking about him.
05:28No, no, no.
05:29But Lautaro is not even a starter.
05:30Tocayo, Tocayo.
05:31Julián Álvarez is the starter.
05:32What are you talking about?
05:33We have been very unfair.
05:34We have been very unfair with Lautaro Martínez.
05:35The World Cup happened to Lautaro again.
05:37He started as a starter, even as a leader.
05:39I understand that talking about the Argentine era is talking about Messi.
05:42But we are forgetting many other names.
05:44I think that if there was another Argentine candidate, it would be Julián.
05:47He won the Premier League.
05:48He won the League Cup with him.
05:50No, Lautaro won the Serie A.
05:51With Inter, well…
