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Legend Del Bosque reveals the "secret": I didn't celebrate Iniesta's goal in the World Cup final because I remembered Bilic
2025-03-18 22:11:43 / SPORT
Vicente Del Bosque was the coach who took Spain to the top of world football, giving them the World Cup in 2010, as well as the European Championship two years later. But it was precisely in the success at the World Cup in South Africa that everyone remembers his strange reaction as he celebrated very little the goal scored in the final against the Netherlands by Iniesta, even though there were only 4 minutes left in the game.
The coach himself revealed why he didn't celebrate that goal, while recounting his career on the "Pasos atrás" podcast of "Onda Cero".
"I say this jokingly because I overdid it with my celebration. Just a few moments earlier, Toni had approached me and said, 'Let's start thinking about who should take the penalties.' But there were still 4 minutes left and I've said it before, but I was reminded of a Croatian who was the coach of Croatia, Bilic.
After the European Championship in Austria, we had a meeting between coaches, it was my first in charge of the national team and Lucy Aragones was there. I remember Bilic who said that in the Turkey-Croatia match, Croatia had scored the advantage goal and he went crazy running all over the field to hug his players. And he told us "I wasted a lot of time hugging, but what I should have done was prepare the team so that they wouldn't score the equalizer". Turkey got the ball in front of the area, a collision, a Turk took it and took it to the triangle. From 1-0 it went to 1-1, they went to penalties and the Croats lost. And I remembered this case perfectly at that moment. That's the truth. He was a man who explained perfectly how a coach should be at that moment", explained Del Bosque.
The match in question is from Euro 2008, between Croatia and Turkey. Klasnić scored the 1-0 goal for Croatia in the 119th minute, while Sentürk equalized in the 122nd minute. On penalties, it was the Turks who won and advanced to the next round.
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