“When I put on the shirt, I usually start praying. I have my Jesus there, my Virgin Mary, my cross, and on my phone, I have a photo of my wife and my daughters. I always light a candle but the final …,” Di Maria told journalist Sofi Martinez Mateos.
“The final was the only match in my career that I didn’t ask, I gave thanks for the moment I was going to live. While I was giving thanks, a few tears fell, and Leo (Messi) also spoke.
“It was not like at the Copa America, it was more direct … I wanted with my life to be able to win it, and thank God, it happened,” he added.
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Di Maria had played only eight minutes in the quarter-final against the Netherlands but was in fine form and along with Messi, who scored a brace, beat France in the final to lead Argentina to the title after 36 years.
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