translated from Spanish: Marcelo Diaz: “I feel like I can be in La Roja football”

The experienced national midfielder Marcelo Díaz referred to his estrangement from the national team, which occurred in the final stretch of the 2018 World Cup qualifiers in Russia, and noted as his best memories with the combined play of the 2014 Brazilian World Cup and the triumph over Spain in the Maracana.
In an Instagram Live with the archer and captain of the ‘Red’, Christiane Endler, the Racing Club player talked about the good and how bad he has lived with the ‘Team of All’.
Asked for his departure from the selected person, which occurred after the crossing into Bolivia in La Paz and with Juan Antonio Pizzi in the bank, and not being called later by Reinaldo Rueda, Díaz said that “I believe that if I was punished, I was not called anymore, that if I am not there it is for something. I know that football is not, there is a coach who makes decisions and you have to accept them.”
“The medium at the time was unfair because of my performance. Now as I am, I understand, I share. I live my life now in peace. I don’t want to have any trouble with anyone. I feel like I can be footballistically,” he added.
In the same vein, the former University of Chile, Basel, Hamburg and Pumas noted that “in a national team have to be the best, the ones that at that time have the best yields. A lot of times there are things we can’t understand. If it’s about performance I should be. It would be a dream to come back.”
When it comes to remembering the best moments with the ‘Red’ shirt, the ‘Chelo’ stated that “my best memory with the national team is to have played a World Cup. It’s going to be the most beautiful experience I’m going to have as a footballer. Winning the America’s Cup is achievements. What I lived in Brazil was a feeling that I felt on the moon. I couldn’t believe the place I was inhabiting back then.”
“It’s something you can’t describe listening to the national anthem outside your country. When we beat Spain in the Maracana, the way people sang the national anthem was incredibly shocking. That’s the experience I treasure the most,” he added.
Finally, ‘Carepato’ spoke of the present of national football, noting that “it lacks my judgment, that things be done better first in the direction. I’d give more filming to the young Chileans. I would start to appreciate what’s in Chile, there are many footballers who are very good, but who retire early. You have to have a project at the country level.”

Original source in Spanish