DON'T TELL ME! WITHOUT MESSI OR DE PAUL, INTER MIAMI'S GOALKEEPER MADE A MISTAKE SO BIG IT LOOKS LIKE FROM THE SECOND DIVISION

The Scaloneta is all the rage worldwide, but in MLS there are also Argentines doing their thing! And not always for the better, mate. Rocco Ríos Novo, Inter Miami’s goalkeeper who is filling in for the beast Messi and the egg De Paul (well, De Paul doesn’t play there, but he’s Argentine and going to the World Cup), made a mistake so crude it looks like from the B Nacional.

So on Sunday, in a match against Chicago Fire of the Polish Lewandowski (yes, the same one who won the Ballon d’Or, but he also plays in MLS), Rocco came out to cut a cross and scored an own goal. But it wasn’t just any goal: it was a blooper that makes you grab your head and say ‘don’t tell me, dude’. The kid went to the feet of a forward, the ball bounced badly and slowly went into the goal. A disgrace.

On social media, Argentine fans went crazy. ‘This is madness, it looks like a youth match’, ‘Rocco, damn it, you can’t fail like that’, ‘The end of the world is coming if this kid plays for the National Team’. But relax, the Scaloneta has Dibu Martínez, the best in the world. Still, Rocco is young and has a future. Hopefully he learns from this mistake and gets his act together.

Inter Miami lost 2-1 and fell far from the playoffs. Without Messi (injured) and without De Paul (who never played there, but is Argentine and going to the World Cup), the team shows it. But hey, MLS is a league of retirees and fading stars. The important thing is that Argentina wins the World Cup. Go Scaloneta!

Watch the video of the error that is going around the world. Rocco Ríos Novo, the Argentine goalkeeper who became a meme. But hey, that’s football. One day you’re a hero, the next a villain. The important thing is to get up and keep going. Argentina, damn it!

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