Maxi Lopez spoke on Mauro Icardi on Radio La Red: “He was a teammate. When you’re in Europe with a South American help them is normal. I did it with Leo Messi and I do it now with Lucas Boyé at Torino. When it was my turn the South Americans helped likewise. I helped him [Icardi] with different things but they’re not relevant. Obviously there are things that were not said or not done, it was just for my children. It is not easy, I have to deal with this everyday day. I think one day me and Icardi will have a long conversation. What will I say? I do not know.”
He also spoke on the photo with Messi and Mascherano at the Juventus stadium which has caused controversy: “This photograph was meant to be private, A week and a half ago, my ex-wife [Wanda Nara] sent a message with a request from my son Valentino who’d asked to go to Juventus-Barcelona. I made a few phone calls and they told me it was no problem, we could even attend the training session. During the last week, my ex-wife wrote again to make sure I didn’t go back on my promise. Then an hour before the training session, my ex-wife calls and tells me she can’t bring Valentino along. I had already organised everything, so I went by myself. Iniesta, Mascherano and Messi came over, so we had a picture together. When the session had finished, my ex-wife called and blamed me for not organising anything. So I bought a jersey and got all three of them to sign it, sending this photo to Wanda to prove that I really was there. This means the only people with the photo were me and Wanda and I have no social media accounts, so I wasn’t the one who published it. I saw Mascherano and Messi yesterday, but hadn’t spoken to them for almost 10 years. What influence could I possibly have with them? This whole incident was orchestrated and planned.”
Source: FCInterNews.it
