“I'm burning my soul”, Lionel Scalon through tears leaves the press conference

The Argentine selector appeared moved as he spoke of his team's journey and the difficulty of building such a group again.

All of us on technical staff were supposed to be at this point. But to go on, it takes a lot of things, above all, to start over from the first”.

Building a group like this again is very difficult... And that hurts my soul”

Then he got out of the chair and left the conference.

Excuse me.

Despite his defeat, Argentina took Spain further, even though it played with a footballer less, while Scanlon implied that a match could have taken another course if his team had remained with 11 players in the field.

After the match, Spain's selective Louis de la Fuente had only words of appreciation for his counterpart.

I'm so sorry for what you're going through. However, he must be happy. He broke every record. There's still a lot ahead. He's new. I even told him he's much younger than I am, and there's still a lot of football ahead of”.

Scalon's contract with the Argentina Football Federation ends in December and he has confirmed he will respect it until the end. /Periscope/