“Depending on how we do, I’ll call Luis de la Fuente”. Just like that, with the naturalness of someone who has already won everything, Lionel Scaloni dropped one of those lines that only he knows how to deliver at a press conference.
The logic is simple and a little mischievous: if Argentina faces Spain in the final, total silence. But if La Albiceleste is knocked out beforehand, the coach promises to call the Spanish manager to “lend him a hand”.
A joke with strategy behind it, the trademark of a Scaloni who knows how to play both on and off the pitch.