The reigning world champions are having a great time. Lionel Scaloni’s men secured their place in the semi-finals by beating Ecuador 4-2 in a tiebreaker in the quarter-finals. However, Lionel Messi missed the first shot in the tiebreaker. At that time, many people thought that the current champions would have to return home from the quarters. But the one who is under the Albicelestad goal bar, says I don’t want to go home so soon. The first two shots taken by Ecuador blocked like the Great Wall of China. With that, the world champions confirmed the semi-finals.

At the end of the match, many praised the Argentinian crazy goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez. Lionel Messi and coach Lionel Scaloni were not left out. Rodrigo de Paulto said, “Martinez is a beast.” Argentina captain Lionel Messi posted a photo of the team celebration on his social media after the tiebreaker in the Ecuador match. In the caption of that post, he wrote, ‘Another step. We suffered a lot against tough opponents. Thank you to everyone who worked so hard to reach the semi-finals. The most important thing is that our team has the best goalkeeper in the world, Emiliano Martinez.

There are reasons why Martinez is called the best goalkeeper in the world. Argentina broke the World Cup title drought after 36 years by defeating France in the final of the World Cup in Qatar. Martinez was one of the heroes of the victory in that match. The Albicelesta are also unbeaten in the last four tiebreakers. Emiliano Martinez blocked the opponent’s shot every time.

Also, after the match against Ecuador, Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni said about Martinez, “Everyone in the team blindly believed in the goalkeeper in the penalty shootout and that’s normal.” Even though Leo (Messi) missed, the whole team knew that something good was going to happen.’ About Martinez, he added, ‘I am not a goalkeeping coach. But when they save goals, they dominate the opposition, knocking them out of the game. And she (Amy Martinez) saves the goal.’