Scott Arfield: ‘I tried to tackle Messi and he made me cuddle my team-mate’
New York TimesScott Arfield rifled home what he thought was a 93rd-minute winner away to Nashville. Then, every morning I came into the canteen, Tom Culshaw would start shouting, ‘There’s the Mountie!’, because I was playing for Canada and he knew that’s what they call the police,” Arfield says. Our game plan was to stop Busquets getting it as he averages the most passes to Messi, but he’s that intelligent he takes you into areas and opens it up for someone else.” Messi making 2 Charlotte players bump into each other by casually dribbling by…#Messi𓃵 pic.twitter.com/BF6HYy2aag — MLS Moves August 12, 2023 Arfield made his debut as an 18-year-old with Falkirk in 2007 and is determined to make good on his goal to play until he is 40. Arfield played every game in Canada’s run to the quarter-finals of the 2019 Gold Cup but, despite remaining a regular at Rangers, his involvement in Canada camps dwindled. The wee guy was a Rangers fan so I told him to get out and I’d take him for a lesson.” Across his five years, Arfield won a league title in 2020-21 and a Scottish Cup in 2021-22 — but a domestic haul of two trophies from a possible 15 does not sit right.
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