“I like missing the easy ones and scoring the difficult ones”, with that phrase, Ferran Torres responded to weeks of criticism over his lack of goals during the World Cup.
The Foios forward had been in and out of Luis de la Fuente’s starting lineup, questioned by the press and half the country. Until the final against Argentina came.
There, he finished with his left foot, placed the ball at the near post and gave Spain the world title. In the mixed zone, speaking to DAZN, he held nothing back: “I like being criticized a little so I can then silence those people.”
He said the goal was “the icing on the cake” of a tournament that began amid doubts, and that he did not realize what he had achieved until he hugged his family.