Martinez, you’re half man and half ‘beast In English the word ‘animal’; In Bengali ‘animal’, ‘beast’, ‘animal’…. Today, thanks to that ‘beast’, Argentina is not getting points. Thankful messages are pouring in.
Argentina fans would surely hug him if they were near him now. Or one more Kathi Saras devotees can imitate Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Veerpurush’ poem. Keeping the country in the status of “mother” and kissing the 31-year-old “Khoka” Martinez of that country, they may say, “Lucky Khoka was with me!” What misery would have happened otherwise.’
Argentina goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez ‘Dibu is a beast!’
What is the mother’s fear if the hero is with the ‘child’! Emiliano Martinez, who will not hesitate to give his life for the jersey, has saved the country’s honor in his hands. Just as he stood as a hero in the 2022 World Cup football final under the three sticks of Argentina, the same Martinez was seen in Houston today. This is what happens when emotional barriers break. And then the word ‘beast’ is also good. Because very naughty boys are brave. And that’s why even though the word ‘beast’ is in mother’s babble, it is actually a cuddly indulgence.
Argentina, Rodríguez gave that favor to Martinez.
Why gave, that question is now unanswered. Better to say, why not indulge? Martínez may be a bit of a nuisance to the strikers of the rest of the world’s international teams. If you want to take a penalty, what do you say when you stand in front to lose your mind! During the corner, the players of the opposing team have to stand in the box and endure his glare. If there is any trouble on the field, this Martinez is the first to run for his teammate. And it doesn’t matter if the man in trouble is Lionel Messi. The whole world is on one side, and Martinez will be on the opposite side of Messi!
This Martinez is the name of Argentina’s greatest hope in times of need. What is beyond the power of Messi, Angel Di Maria or Julián Alvarez, is within the reach of Martinez. Masterminds in penalty kicks or tiebreakers or one-on-one situations. Do you remember Lucille’s final against France? Not only the tiebreaker, but before that, Kolo Muanyi’s shot in the very last minute of the match and Martinez’s save that saved the country’s dream by jumping to the left!
Or you can go to the recent past. Those two saves were between 72 and 75 minutes in the group stage match against Chile in this Copa America. If you don’t like that, you can also draw the example of the tiebreaker in the quarter-finals against Ecuador today. In the shootout, Martinez probably knows in advance which direction the opposing team’s players will take a shot. In most cases that is happening! Just like Ecuador’s Angel Mena and Alan Minda know which way to shoot, the Argentine saved his dream of holding the title by jumping in that direction.
Science says that when any natural disaster comes, people or other inhabitants of the animal world feel it first. Having fun with the words of Paul, it can be said that this logic of science is not false in the case of Martinez!
He has won all four tiebreaker shootouts for Argentina so far. Martinez faced 18 shots in the shootout with 1 going off the post, 9 goals and 8 saves. What will you still say, The Paul lied?
Yes, that is saying something. Martinez is actually half man, half ‘beast’! As long as he stays on the field, the latter, in front of tiebreakers or penalties, the maximum of this character of Martínez comes out. But after the last whistle, that ‘beast’ turned into a man of flesh and blood. People’s sorrow touches him. After winning the tiebreaker, Tai was the first to run and hug Ecuador’s goalkeeper Alexander Dominguez, comforting him, maybe even saying, ‘Wait, my friend, your day will come!’
Wait that Martinez also had to do. He has been playing in the Argentine jersey for only three years. But he has already won the Copa America and the World Cup. Contribute? You can ask, the Colombia team that played in the 2021 Copa semi-finals, the “La Tricolors” had to face the “Beast” in the tiebreaker that day as well. If the task is more difficult, at least Kolo Muani can ask the question that what is the contribution of Martinez in the jersey of Argentina?
Martinez was also Argentina’s savior in the tiebreaker in the Qatar World Cup final.
You’ll get Messi’s answer before Muani says anything. The Argentine missed the first shot in the tiebreaker, leaving the legend in a cloud. Martinez removed the “cloud” and opened the autumn sky on Messi’s face. The legend smiled and hugged the savior of his dreams. Then he said, what suits Martinez the most, is that, ‘I knew that “Dibu” would stand up in these times. Such moments are his choice, which has made him great.
Messi’s words are enough to understand Martinez. That little place three sticks down is Martinez’s world. Whatever you do at other times, when the whole country is staring at the 6ft 3in tall man standing under those three sticks, he becomes superhuman. King in other words. Praja became in life, it is a story of another time left behind.
Born in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, the man left home as a teenager to pursue football. Everyone knows the story of his wait at Arsenal after visiting Independent. Despite eight years there and a goalkeeping crisis, Arsenal only played him 15 games. There was disappointment. But why would heroes reveal it?
The country’s jersey on the field like China’s wall Martinez?
Martinez is now in that period. He knows the rules of the world that is mentioned under the three sticks. The goalkeeper made a great save, but that was his responsibility. But if you make a mistake, do not save! In the penalty, the opposing team’s players look at the goalkeeper with wolf eyes while taking a shot.
Martinez knows the rules of the forest; To prevent the attack of the wolf, not the person, the wolf must be! De Paul describes the subject in one word. Martinez capitalized on that and brought back the memory of Sergio Gococchia.
In the 1990 World Cup semi-final, Gococchia took Argentina to the semi-finals by winning the tiebreaker against Italy. The former goalkeeper is now a TV commentator. Today he must have seen the heroism of the successor and at one place his loneliness also touched.
Goicochia holds the all-time tiebreaker shootout record of 8 saves in Argentine history. Martinez sat there today. The difference is, Goicochia faced 28 shootouts, compared to 18 for Martinez. “Told them (teammates), I’m not ready to go home,” Martinez said after the last 2 saves today.
In other words, he did not see or believe that the end of Argentina’s journey was in the quarter-finals. If this continues, when will Martinez return home? To win the crown of continental excellence, the crown of world victory is not left out. Argentina’s jersey is on the verge of winning the crown of continental excellence once again. In fact, it is impossible for Martinez to ignore this call. Argentina jersey! Never open unless absolutely forced to. And what will Martinez look like when forced?
No matter how old the branches are, the behavior of the field seems to have left the smell of youth. Like that fickle Phatik Chakraborty in Rabindranath’s ‘Chuti’ story. At the very end of the story, it was time for Fatik to return home. Turned around in the heat of high fever, hiding maybe two drops of tears (not in the story) in his eyes, he said, ‘Mother, now I have a holiday, mother, now I am going home.’
