Away from Benfica, Ángel Di María loses it in Argentina: hypocrites | OneFootball

Rosario Central hosted and beat Racing Club, 2-1, in the quarter-finals of Argentina’s Torneo Apertura in the early hours of Thursday. After the match, Diego Milito, the former striker and now president of the Avellaneda club, said his team had been "robbed". Ángel Di María - who played a leading role in an epic comeback - did not like what he heard and responded.

"We feel robbed. I’m sad and tired of these things. It was another shameful match. (...) We have to do something. I’m ready to start rebuilding Argentine football once and for all," said Milito in comments to journalists.

Along the same lines, the now-president said Argentine football is "rotten" and that "this can’t go on anymore". Racing, who were eliminated in extra time, finished the match with only nine men and suggested the pitch was tilted.

It was then that Di María’s response came, through social media. "It really bothers people that Central are fighting for everything; it bothers them that teams from the interior win. No one takes responsibility for defeats. Today it is easier to attack Central than to engage in 'mea culpa' (my fault) and correct your own mistakes," he wrote, then going on to highlight the "hypocrisy" he felt.

"Out of the number of times Central have been harmed by refereeing decisions, nobody said anything, but today every decision is wrong... crazy, isn’t it? Did people use to debate penalties and yellow cards this much before? Hypocrites. Many of those who want to change football can’t even manage their own club," he said, continuing to criticise the reality of Argentine football.

"We will not stay silent any longer; the interior is growing and that hurts, bothers and annoys people (...) And then they want the world champions to come and play in Argentina. What for? So they can just say we are being helped? That football is tainted? Football is not tainted. Now we are all equal, and that is what bothers them," concluded the former Benfica winger.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇵🇹 here.