Real Madrid asked Angel di Maria to miss WC final

Angel di Maria says he tore up a letter sent on the morning of the World Cup final by his then club Real Madrid telling him not to play for Argentina against Germany

Angel di Maria

Buenos Aires: Angel di Maria says he tore up a letter sent on the morning of the World Cup final by his then club Real Madrid telling him not to play for Argentina against Germany.


Angel di Maria 

The 26-year-old did not play in the 0-1 defeat by Germany in any case as he failed to recover from a groin injury.

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"A letter from Madrid arrived at 11 in the morning on the day of the final saying that I should not play," Di Maria told Argentine radio station America.

"I tore it up, I didn't give it a second thought."

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