During an extensive interview with La Gazzetta dello Sport Marco Cucurella, Chelsea’s Spanish defender, spoke like this: “Have I become a cult hero? A great feeling. Before, people only focused on the big names who scored millions of goals, now they also look at someone like me who plays as a full-back and scores very little. We went from Ronaldinho to Cucurella, how times change.”
Quarter-final with Germany. Shot by Musiala, hand by Cucurella in the area. Referee Taylor says it’s not a penalty. Three months later UEFA said that yes, the penalty was there.
“My goodness, that’s scary. I felt scared, I looked at the referee and saw him confidently, “No, penalty!”. I said to myself: “Relax” but I only did it when the game restarted. Then now they come to say that it was a penalty: what’s the point? The real problem is that there is a beastly confusion.”