Immediately following his second goal, when he cupped his ears and stood stubbornly glaring at Netherlands coach Louis van Gaal, Messi caused controversy. It was an allusion to the cartoon mouse named "Topo Gigio," who gave Juan Roman Riquelme his moniker.
Van Gaal famously sent Riquelme out of Barcelona because the two did not get along when he and the Dutchman were there.
Messi said it wasn't his best performance in an interview with Andy Kusnetzoff that was shown on MD.
“The truth is that no (I didn’t prepare it). I didn’t like it. It came out at the moment and yes, I knew what had been said before the game, what he had said. Some of my teammates told me ‘did you see what he said’ on purpose. We got 2-0 and then at the time, I don’t like what I did, what happened later with the ‘off you go, stupid’ [anda pa’ ‘lla bobo]. These are moments of great tension, a lot of anxiousness, everything happens very quickly and you don’t have time to think about anything. Actually, nothing was planned, it happened like that and as I say, it isn’t an image I like to give off.”
The "Que Miras Bobo" [What are you staring at, Bobo] incident gained international notoriety. Messi saw Dutch attacker Wout Weghorst in the mix zone and gave him a firm order to keep moving. He also went back to that time.
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