Special Envoy of the Observer in Doha, Qatar
It took a while but he did it. João Félix wasn’t exactly putting in the best game against Ghana after putting in a more inspired performance against Nigeria but he ended up turning up at a crucial moment in the game when he canceled out not only the tie but also the uplifting potential of the African team in just five minutes after the 1 -1. Total, They were two years without scoring for Portugal, breaking a fast that came from a game with Croatia and that brought the number of goals for the National Team to four.
The striker of Atl. Madrid, which could also be on the way out in this reopening of the market due to the context it has faced in the last two months with Diego Simeone, was one of the elements of the national team that went through the mixed zone, speaking in a space where the voice of the Portuguese journalists and dozens of telephones and recorders of all the international press in a crowd that seemed more like the celebration of a goal in triplicate (the more entry cards, the more there would be). And the following expression of Felix summed up what he started saying before. the importance of the scored goal at the start of the World Cup.
“Of course it is a sense of relief for everything that has happened this season. I do my job, I always try to help my club and the national team, in this case, and I never make it easy even though people think so. I always do my job to the best of my ability to help everyone, to make the fans happy and us happy with the victory”, he began referring to the striker, who also explained that he did not have any injuries despite having left with apparent physical problems. complaints already in the 90th minute above.
“Score the first goal in your World Cup debut? It is a moment of enormous joy, I only remember my family, my friends at home, how they celebrated… My mother must have yanked it, Let’s see how it goes now… I remembered them because today they couldn’t be there and this goal is for them, for my parents, for my brother and for all my family. Message for my mother? Not yet, I haven’t gone to the bathhouse yet, I had to come here…” she said, once again in that relieved tone.
I dedicate the goal to this fantastic group, to all my family, to all my friends, they are all important and make me feel good and it is not in these moments that they should be more present, it is in those in which things They don’t do so well and they’re always there, they don’t make it easy.”
“It’s a World Cup, all the teams are strong, there are no easy matches or teams, we are the ones who have to make the games easy ”, concluded the Atl striker. Madrid before doing the rest of the mixed zone on the way to the locker room, after having spent a good time with midfielder Thomas Partey, a former teammate in Spain who is now in the Premier League leader, Arsenal.
Afterwards, the players passed by, almost all of them waving but not speaking. João Palhinha was an exception, stopping for a minute to talk to a Brazilian journalist about Abel Ferreira, the Palmeiras coach with whom he worked, Bernardo Silva also spoke in French to a television channel with broadcast rights but everyone was waiting for the moment when did. It doesn’t take much time for most. with the passage of Cristiano Ronaldo. There were autographs, there were selfiesthere was a lot of confusion, there were reproductions of the famous yessss after the goals. It was almost as if whoever did not speak filled the pages of dozens of newspapers.
Source: Observadora
