A few months ago, when he discussed his first season in Paris in an interview for TyC Sports, Lionel Messi commented that the UEFA Champions League is an extremely complicated tournament because it is not always won by the team that plays the best or the team that shines the most.
Well, the Argentine genius repeated the same speech a few days ago in a talk with Hristo Stoichkov for STUDY: “PSG’s main goal, like every year, is the Champions League. A competition that is very difficult to win, because the best does not always win. It is always decided by small details. Any mistake puts you out of a playoff. But, well, I think we are preparing ourselves for when those hard moments come, to be able to rise to the occasion”.
The statements have generated a considerable stir in Spain. And it is that they are interpreted as a dart to the recent conquests of Real Madrid, a team that, although it achieved anthological comebacks, was clearly surpassed by its rivals in prolonged periods of the KO qualifiers.
THE RESPONSE THAT GUTI DEDICATED TO LIONEL MESSI
In the midst of the noise, Guti Hernández, Real Madrid youth squad, coach and current sports analyst, responded to the 10th of The Albiceleste. The former midfielder of the Chamartín giant commented, in one of his speeches with The beach bar, that Lio is well aware of winning without being the best, mentioning some of the Ballon d’Ors he won.
“He knows it well, because of the Ballon d’Or, that not every year the best wins it. True true. He has won some that he did not touch, it is true. He knows it.”
“I think he says it for Real Madrid, but he also knows that at many certain moments he hasn’t been the best either and he has won it. He knows it too.”
Guti says he does not know what people mean when they say that “the best did not win”: “But what is it to be the best? How do you evaluate being the best? When? One match, one knockout, in three knockouts?
Undefeated data. Lionel Messi won the Ballon d’Or in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019 and 2021. The top winner of the prestigious individual award.
Did you know…? Lionel Messi has won the UEFA Champions League 4 times. The 4 he won with FC Barcelona. He hasn’t conquered her since 2015.
