{"id":133641,"date":"2025-09-10T20:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T20:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/133641\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T20:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T20:48:11","slug":"gimenez-reacts-after-last-minute-heroics-for-mexico-were-very-confident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/133641\/","title":{"rendered":"Gimenez reacts after last-minute heroics for Mexico: &#8220;We&#8217;re very confident&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santiago Gimenez returned to scoring for his national team, and the circumstances will certainly give his confidence a big boost.<\/p>\n<p>Gimenez had a lot of speculation floating over his head at the end of the window that has just closed, and it seemed as though his time at Milan might last just a few months. In the end no exit materialised, although the way the club handled things <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/italian-media-question-gimenez-soap-opera\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has come under scrutiny<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The striker will venture back over the Atlantic Ocean with some confidence after what happened in the early hours of Wednesday morning (European time). He picked up the ball on the edge of the box with the score 2-1 to South Korea in the 94th minute, and <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/santiago-gimenez-goal-mexico-south-korea\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">curled in a spectacular equaliser<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After the match, the Milan striker was interviewed by ESPN Mexico and spoke about the goal and how he feels with the national team in general. His comments are via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milanpress.it\/messico-gimenez-gol-gruppo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MilanPress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very confident in who we are as a group, as a team. We believe we\u2019re on the right path. They\u2019re tough opponents: you can\u2019t always beat them, but you can\u2019t always go down defeated either,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScoring goals? Every goal has the same meaning, whether in friendly matches or in the neighbourhood. We always celebrate. This is a team sport, so I want to congratulate my team. South Korea are a tough opponent, it\u2019s great to be able to compete with them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Santiago Gimenez returned to scoring for his national team, and the circumstances will certainly give his confidence a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-133641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}