2023-07-12 02:05:14
Lionel Messi attended Public TV on the last tour of the Argentine team in Asia and the interview was only published this Tuesday at 10:30 p.m. The note was made by the journalist Sofía Martínez. And “Leo” talked regarding everything: his future in Miami and his link with the Argentine team. The note was formulated with questions that Messi’s own teammates asked the 35-year-old from Rosario.
The first question was that of Julián Álvarez, who asked him how he does to live “being Messi”. And he replied: “I always handled myself in the same way, being very simple, very simple. From going to take the children to school or playing a square. Sometimes I would like to go unnoticed, but I am always grateful for the affection of the people. I am always myself.”
Lisandro Martínez, for example, asked him what the national team is for him. “The most,” he said without hesitation. “There were very bad times for me, in which I won everything with Barcelona and the opposite happened with the national team. I always wanted to be and never stopped trying. And the goal ended up coming. The selection is something that I enjoyed despite many bitterness”.
Then followed the question of Exequiel Palacios, which is why everyone wants to know: how long will he continue in the national team? “Not even I know. It will happen when it has to happen. The only thing left to enjoy following everything we have achieved in recent times. By logic, by age, it will surely be in a short time. But I do not know. I only think regarding the day to day”.
The questions continued with Nahuel Molina, who asked him if he saw him in the pass play in the game once morest the Netherlands. “I saw it, heh. I saw the race and tried to give him the pass because it was something that nobody was going to expect. I didn’t hear it, I saw it.”
Ángel Di María left his query: “Did you do any barbecue in Paris?” And Messi confessed: “I am not one to make barbecue. I don’t like to do it myself. I did some, but I like accompanying more than doing ”.
Nicolás Tagliafico was intrigued by how it lasts “so long”. And he said: “The mentality, the effort, the perseverance, the sacrifice. Since I was a child I was like this, very responsible ”.
Rodrigo de Paul, for his part, was grateful for how Messi is “with me” and for “how he opens up”. “He helped me a lot. He helped me get into the new breed of players. He helped me a lot to integrate into that group, which were all new kids, who came from other processes. From the first day, from the first training session, we had a good relationship”.
Who did not ask and did tell what he felt at the time of being world champion. It was Leandro Paredes, who hugged him as soon as the coronation took place. “It is indescribable. It’s a lot of emotion. Being able to finish my entire career achieving the most important thing. It was extraordinary… the most desired cup. I told them ‘Thank you, I love you.’ It’s hard to let go so much. It is normal that I have more affinity with one than with others, but it was spectacular. I have respect for them.”
The last question was that of Paulo Dybala: “Do you know what it generates?” He said this: “You do not value what you are getting because you are always looking for more and more. I am in a moment in which I enjoy everything that happens to me because I know that they are the last years. I think that when I retire and don’t play anymore, I’m going to value everything much more. And being world champion remains forever, for life. In a country like ours, it will go down in history”.
He also confessed that if he lost the final with France he would not have continued in the national team. This was Messi’s monologue: “During the entire World Cup I enjoyed it a lot. I knew it might be my last World Cup. If we hadn’t been world champions, I wouldn’t be in the national team anymore. Today being world champion I can’t stop enjoying all this. I was very calm in the group we had. We had started with a defeat, the game with the Netherlands, which we had won… And even when they tied us I was very calm. That it was going to be ours. That it was the moment that we were going to be champions. It was like he felt it, he knew it, I don’t know. And I approached the World Cup that way. I went through difficult times in the national team and beyond the fact that we won the Copa América and most people changed, I also know that if we didn’t win the World Cup, there would have been a lot of criticism. I think that I would not have had the strength to continue, it would have been the end. There would have been a lot of criticism.”
He remembered those bad times. And the “murmurs”. And he added: “When I arrived in Barcelona he forgot how bad we had in the national team, they talked atrocities, they crossed the line of disrespect. I knew that my family suffered a lot from all this that they consumed from the national team. Not to cry, but I suffered a lot, I had very hard moments. I never doubted or thought… or well, at one point, yes, ha.”
And he added: “Before that, I always had the desire to achieve something with the national team and I had to try.”
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