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Soccer players regularly give on-field interviews after a match about the game’s most memorable moments, but Racing Club captain Leo Sigali provided some unusual answers on April 2. When a TNT Sports journalist asked the player about a key moment when he had the chance to tie up the game and what coach Fernando Gago had asked him to do when the match got complicated, Sigali repeatedly answered “I don’t remember,” before walking off, seemingly confused.

Within minutes, Sigali was trending on Twitter as fans and journalists expressed concern about the player.

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