Dayot Upamecano entered a very closed circle by scoring the decisive goal against Croatia, Sunday, during the quarter -final return of the League of Nations. If Mike Maignan, thanks to these two judgments, was the hero of this session, the Munich defender joined Théo Hernandez, last summer against Portugal, Laurent Blanc, decisive against the Netherlands at the Euro 1996, and Luis Fernandez, the unforgettable hero of the penalty shootout against Brazil during the 1986 World Cup.
The success of Luis Fernandez was nothing to chance. He had first convinced Michel Platini to let him shoot in fifth and last position. “” Usually, I always pull the 5th, last. But Fernandez comes to see me and said to me: “Michel, when I shoot the 5th, I always mark and we win.” So I let him shoot the 5th. I pulled the 4th, the one that you always miss in principle in major competitions ”, had told the former tricolor playmaker.
A whole country in depression
Above all, he had taken Brazil to his own trap as told to La DĂ©pĂŞche Philippe Bergeroo, third goalkeeper at the 1986 World Cup. ” The day before the meeting we had gone to do a training session behind closed doors and I spotted that there was a hidden camera in the stands. She had to belong to the Brazilians …, He had explained. I reported it to Luis Fernandez. And he said to me, “Stay with me at the end of training, I'm going to get you penalties. I'm going to shoot them all left and tomorrow I will hit on the right ”he pulled me five penalties on the left and the next day it ends in penalties and when it is in Luis to shoot, the goalkeeper leaves completely left. Luis therefore takes it against it and France wins. »»
This victorious shot, magnified by the ” Go my little guy ” From Thierry Roland, provoked chaos scenes in Brazil. “” Seven deaths, suicide attempts and more than 2,000 hospitalizations, such are the figures delivered by the Brazilian authorities on the night of June 21, 1986 which followed the defeat of the Seleçao “Said Frederic watches in his book” Unusual World Cup stories “. If several heart attacks were to be deplored between the missed shot of Julio Cesar and the successful that of Fernandez, a Copacabana trader was also murdered by a pistol by a unhappy supporter of his comments.
Hospitals in all of Brazil were Overwhelmed like never after the match. In the Salgado-Filho medical center alone, no less than six hundred emergencies are noted between the ball injured, the ethyl comas and the heart alerts. The country comes in depression and it will take him eight years and his coronation in the United States against Italy to find a smile.
