Argentina's Rodrigo de Paul: 'Messi surprised me. He enjoys a song, cards'

Rodrigo de Paul had imagined it, but not like this. "We had gone years without playing a Copa América in our country and we had the chance to live that," he says. "We know the passion Argentinians feel. We knew stadiums would have been bursting. We knew that every team that came to play wouldn't just be facing us but 60,000 or 70,000 people shouting. We saw it in Brazil two years ago it was like they played with an extra man. This year was our turn, with us it was going to be even more powerful, but …"