Kolo Muani on Dibu’s save: “I’ll always be the guy who missed a one-on-one in the World Cup final”

A little more than a year after the Qatar 2022 World Cup final that lifted Lionel Scaloni’s team to glory, French footballer Randal Kolo Muani, who missed the one-on-one in the last minutes of the match, pointed out at that time how it still weighs on his conscience. It is a fact that reality always surpasses fiction, because although it does not happen at all times, examples such as the tour of the Argentine National Team in Qatar reflect the veracity of the classic phrase. With emotions from the beginning to the end, the team led by Scaloni was forced to kick from the 12 steps to obtain the title, but minutes before the decisive moment a one-on-one took place that once again highlighted the heroic factor of goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez, perhaps one of the most important in the competition. And as always happens when a hero is raised in football, on the other side a victim succumbs to criticism and outside comments. In this case it was Kolo Muani, who is still haunted by the ghost of that time. “I will always be the guy who missed a one-on-one in the World Cup final,” he remarked in an interview with Onze Mundial.The 25-year-old French midfielder resigned himself to the comments of football fans, who still remind him of the play. “That’s life, even when my career is over, people will still be talking to me about it. Obviously, I’m still disgusted by this failure,” he said. In that sense, the Frenchman then referred to the criticism of the French for his decision at a key moment in the match. “People say, ‘I could have given it to Kylian.’ He has never spoken to me about the action again. And at that time it was impossible to do so. Football is not played in slow motion, only VAR could have seen that,” he said. Likewise, Kolo Muani pointed out the role he had to play. “If I had scored, I would have been ‘the star’ and honestly, I don’t think I would have liked it, because it must not be easy to bear,” he said. Finally, the footballer spoke about the possibility of being part of the France team in the next European Championship. “I fight every day to get a call from the coach. It depends on my job. I have to prove it at the club. But the goal is to be on the roster and win the European Championship. We have a great generation, we can say that we are favourites. In any case, I will do everything I can to be at the European Championship,” he added.

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