2024-04-01 11:59:10
After much searching, disappointments and bitter nights, Leo Messi managed to touch the sky with Argentina in 2021 and the culmination with the 2022 World Cup. However, the ten’s pilgrimage with the Albiceleste to success was like the exodus of Moses through the desert, with tough battles once morest the press and the Argentine people themselves that culminated in their momentary withdrawal following the 2016 Copa América, the Centennial. Antonio Mohamed, a television commentator at that time, commented in an interview regarding his encounter with Messi following the final once morest Juan Antonio Pizzi’s Chile.
“I want to clarify that I did not know that five seconds ago I had resigned from the National Team, I was not aware,” the ‘Turk’ began by declaring for Olé. “I heard him cry and Messi told me: ‘It’s not for me, it’s not for me.’ I don’t remember what he said to him, what I really responded to him,” recalled the former Celta or Pumas coach.
At that time, Messi was far from establishing himself as a living legend of Argentina. The former FC Barcelona player lived an idyll in Barcelona, but a real nightmare in his native country. While in Europe he won everything, in South America he touched Olympus with the tips of his fingers on three occasions, all in a row. In 2014 as runner-up in the world in Brazil following a goal by Mario Götze in the last minute, in 2015 in the Copa América once morest Chile in the Andean country itself, and the last, the most painful, once morest La Roja once more in the Copa América Centennial just a year later.
The last bad drink in a continental championship ended up precipitating the ten’s resignation from Argentina at only 28 years old. The criticism in his country was so profound that it ended up sinking him, in addition to precipitating the departure of his current coach at Inter Miami, ‘Tata’ Martino. Messi would taste failure once more with the Albiceleste in Russia 2018 and the Copa América in 2019. In the new decade his situation took a radical turn, first with the Copa América 2021 and later with the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
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