Exclusive interview to Leo Messi

16 years since we met on that trip, the Barça tour that has changed Leo Messi from that 16 when he traveled alone in the Barça, all Leo Messi now sings about Barça are many years since that time and a lot of things happened to me, both in terms of sports as well as personally, today I am married with three children, many years of professional experience in a team and I think I grew a lot in both parts, the three children open up, which is what changes your life the most, how they handle their country being a month and not normal the truth is that Santiago out there is the one that affects the most badly the one who realizes it the most but well he loves it in three-man football especially if I do and mate who are what they understand the most and well the fact that The fact that I am at Barça and they come to the field and to training all that makes them very close to me on that side as well and they ask you questions yes I ask you all the time about football not only here but in any team As general of the game, the truth is that I do like him a lot, he follows him without format and he has a favorite player who is not for you.

If they have several, they like him a lot. The people talk to him a lot about good things about us, about Luiz de Griezmann, who doesn't. It has a lot to do with it because we haven't followed Antoine from Arturo and Arturo from the first day that he arrived because of his hair and all that, but also that he is outside the Christian role of Snake, the truth is that I already told you, or is everything known and he asks me and she really likes a lot of people who have accompanied you all your life since we met, she who has contributed to all the successes of your career.

Well, I think that what I have done was not fundamental if the spirit of my family with whom I began to live with her and we began to live our lives alone, it was essential both in sports and in everyday life, the tranquility and knowing how to be there at all times, to always be happy, to get me out of the world of football, which was very difficult for me, the truth is that He was a very important person if it suits him very well I love Barcelona although it is strange a lot Rosario is in my house I spent more time here than in Argentina practically no longer practically no longer I love Barcelona the place where I live in Castelldefells and now a life that is enjoyed a lot during the month and a very normal ordinary day, very attentive to the girls because thanks to me, I have the profession that allows me to spend a lot of time with the children and I finished training and well, quickly, how to see with Antonella to go look for the children in alcohol and then we depend on them for some activity they have or do something with it and then it's dinner last night and the truth is that it was dead because with three we ended up destroyed and and sleep sleep early they said Tuesday and Thursday the girl has a future so we go out school and we came here it seemed sporty here at school that she got home at 7:30 between having a mate and having dinner the truth is that a very normal life which I like I like because I like the routine was something I have always liked it both in my profession and in my life.

I like it, so for me it is spectacular and a car is that, you know that you can't do it. I've never had it. Sometimes it's what people are like, what people like me. question but employment will always remain here at barça we don't want to ever leave here what would you say well I think that many times my idea is princess and as long as the club and the people continue wanting that on my part you will never see any problem and I also said it many times that I would like to be there and for us to be well, everything that the club is well, the people who are happy with the team that makes it a winning project and that we once again compete for all the titles as we we always do is measured to continue in this club I want to win another champions I want to continue winning league and I always aspire to that but you know that that famous clause that when the summer comes you can tell it makes people nervous that it's free no so everything is free, how can you go wherever you want to go, not when in reality I always had the decision, not only because of that clause, at a long time I had the opportunity to follow the club or even a lot of clubs that were willing to pay up to the clause, but the truth is that I never At no point did I miss out on leaving and now I won't repeat it again if the club wants for me no problem it was very sad what the death was and Brian the helicopter accident not how you experienced that accident how you reacted well the truth is It was a bad surprise because we were about to eat while watching the news and there we were in the middle of the noise and I didn't know much about it until I heard it and it was my turn to hear that news.

At first I didn't believe it, I thought there was a mistake. I couldn't do it, but it was the news and surely there was something and well, later I found out and the truth is that it was terrible. When something like this happens or when something happens to someone close to us, this or some important illness we think about how lucky we are in what we have to enjoy, but you can truly enter the world of this non-stop and a side to the other and your things, your problem and that of the family and it comes in a little like you forget, no, but I think we have to always keep in mind, unfortunately, I have done this to know how to enjoy life and face the problems of another way we are going to watch a little bit of football as you see the leopard team an important week arrives and the champions arrives at eibar it arrives at the classic how the team arrives at this stage of the season well the truth is that we are going through a process of change of coach with our coach, as always, each one has his use, it happens to another way of seeing the game, the way of playing and I think there is little left, we are adapting, we are adapting to what he wants, it is not easy because we come from a time of returning from playing another way and today you can't do anything else but the truth is that we are growing and we still have a lot left and if we aspire to try to achieve what is not left we have to improve our engines a lot.

The other day against a rival that has complicated very pressure very intense or even whistles sometimes the exit of the ball when I had it ter stegen you see how how I explain it to you what explanation do you give to the people so that they are not going to normal also not after some results after the coach change from the studio to the People get nervous when drinking, it's true that many times during the game we play backwards a lot and that makes people very nervous, it also makes them nervous, it gives the feeling that at any moment we lose them and they can't score a goal and people get upset. but normal is not normal because of everything we are seeing in this in recent times in changes in results at stake because we are not playing well either and it is normal for people to respond that way but well you have to be calm and trust attention to the It's good, a little bit depends on the match, the truth is that it gives me a lot of freedom, sometimes like in the cup match, I had to play falsely again to try to be a human in the middle like we did in the past and have superiority, starting from outside but but like everything it gave me a lot of freedom to try to gain superiority and to try to attack well on what we mentioned that is asking for new things is this of the ball exit against the fact that they are advancing so much the most complicated thing today something else that is also very different from what you do until now, there are not many things, perhaps the one that is seen the most is that because it is a big change to risk a lot in the exit that Marc takes out of the area sometimes even a little more to try to get out but well everything is to go well to start well and try to attack attack attack again well but there are also other things other movements the expression we try again to press after loss or to press up things that we had lost a little and Well, all of this also takes a process and we are assimilating it in this time of changes and that the team also has to reformulate a little, you also of each fan.

You see that it is a more complicated year to be able to win the league and champions. what everyone wants or you see it as feasible because well because you think that you are going to do this quickly and that you are going to get good you never know no but so it is a year of the law both Madrid and us are being very regular where we lost many points in that sense I think we are going to be fighting until the end that the league is not finished after the classic no matter what happens there is still an important game and we only have a hard start and I too after home can lose as it lost point of lottery with Celta in Madrid, I also think that the league was already going very irregularly and we are going to be there and after all, the truth is that if they want to make it to the Champions League we have to continue growing a lot because I think that today it is not enough for us as work to be able to put temper how you lived leo because it shows that there is an appreciation how you lived in the departure of ernesto valverde from the team obviously badly because he was leaving apart from a great coach and a great person and many times many times they were marked by specific matches the which we were more responsible than him but well in the end the easiest thing is always to fire the coach than to change all the players and the coaches know that it is like that and then the defeat against an Atlético Madrid team also where we had the game almost under control and in 5 minutes We were left out of the Super Cup, all of that made things end the way they did and the truth is that it was a shame, Quique Setién arrived, what has surprised you the most about Caracas when I didn't know him, having faced us, having acted once in a while when When we crossed paths, a very, very close, very talkative person who lives very attentive to all the details, who really likes football and who is constantly talking about programs that to win the Champions League, many details are missing, since that is what he I would miss the team to be able to remove that champions well I think that being more regular in the game grab all these new things that we are putting into practice as soon as possible and be more reliable not to make silly mistakes that we make and have been making throughout the year not to make the that we committed in previous years with the games that happened to us both in Rome and in Liverpool where where we leave the game and it seems that it disconnects we go and what happens to us happens to us and handle all the details of the champions any slightest detail that condemns you and We have to reach 100% in everything to try to be honest, I can't find an explanation, especially the one from Liverpool because, well, Rome - it can happen once and it catches you by surprise, but it doesn't happen again the following year and with The result that we had and that it is more or less similar to what had not happened is difficult to explain.

Let's do it for real. And there you could see that he was there to say what he said. I don't know what happened to him at the gate of the house. to say that but I think I responded because I felt attacked, I felt like I was attacking the players and too many things are said like the locker room handles everything where the coach is the work coach and the players and above all the first thing they contribute is like I I have a lot of power and I made decisions. It bothered me that it was done by a person from the club or a technical secretary who put the players in the middle of a situation like the coach's.

It seemed crazy to me, not the technical secretary who makes the decision and has to almost that position and and the one who makes decisions, that's why it was clear to me, I don't think I couldn't let go that the unemployment and also as capital that the relationship of absolute respect with Valverde when when they destroyed him you said well that you were grateful for all his work, it hurt you so much as a person as capital the truth on the side first sandwich with the locker room and that's why he said that the estuary was attacked that they were men, want who that person was before making it general and then on a personal level also because of what he said before not because a lot is already said that I make decisions and command things that are not true and good for that reason also because I station you I don't know it also happened in the Argentine national team where I said that they play what I said that they chose coaches my friends play I don't know the fact of being so much time in the same place and knowing the house a lot, both here and in the national team, maybe it's because of that, but well, it was demonstrated, I also think that I have my opinion, the club has yours, and that many times we agree and it doesn't go away.

He asked for it yesterday he had to go down again we need it through social networks as seen presidents how he convinced you the explanations of what good friends the course with his new company because he was not here and unfairly traveled and when I know that he maintains a bit of a little of everything and the president did not say the same thing that he made public that he did at the conference. The company did not explain what the situation was, what had happened and the truth is that I cannot say much more than the same thing that You know everything he said, he told us private captains and the truth is that only but I find it strange not that something like that happens but well they also said that there would be proof we will have to wait to see if it is true or not the truth is that many no no We can say and if we wait to see what happens with all this about the truth it seemed to me a strange topic almost better than this one in everything a little calmer and the truth is that we have had it since January until now problem extra problem and what we need is peace of mind to think in the game think about the games and try to grow at least isolate ourselves from all thatbecause if they are not going to be a complicated man since the classic it will not be so definitive this year because the teams are very even but it is a game that I have to delay especially and I think it would give a lot of confidence I think whoever wins that The game is going to come out very, very reinforced by what it means from the classic because it would mean maybe putting yourself ahead or getting more points ahead and I think it would be a turning point.

It is important if I have lost a lot of goals and it was a life that was going to happen Not just a goal, although Cristiano has a lot of goals, it gives you a lot of other things, but I had said it and it seems normal to me, or a player who scores 50 goals per season who doesn't have it anymore, it's obvious that Madrid has great players, but There are 50 days left without resistance the other games and they are highlighting more that you have not scored in those games it is so important for the one with because they catch it at a point also where yes I have really had chances and several and no it does not materialize there today He threw a little further back, tried to get into the game a little more, what we were talking about before, trying to gain superiority in the middle to have more of the ball, because today the game in another also involves defending a mother with control of the ball. but it is also true that I have had the situation in all these games, I couldn't convert but well it's not something that worries me either going back to this year when you are in a complicated situation there has also been a lot of talk about hiding is manita a fantastic pass that scored a goal and then I also had a pass that you narrowly missed with a save from the goalkeeper as we don't have a good relationship just like we do with all my teammates off the field but obviously it was normal that it wasn't going to be difficult at first to get to know each other in the movements he comes from a different game also where he was used to the edges in another way he often had to play on the left which perhaps is not where he feels best today the last game they are playing in front of the center there we have more possibility of connecting to be closer, more of a point, but it doesn't happen because we look bad, but rather because of game and match situations and we take the starting center forward, your friend Suárez is injured, you who talk to the one you are close to, I think that arriving in time to play something is season because he seems very animated on social networks, he is crazy about returning and really looking forward to it, I don't know what we will expect to see as modulations and I hope so so that he returns soon because he is a fundamental important player for us who in these games I believe That it was noticed and that it is not much needed for you at the moment he is cooking the missions but I am seeing how easy it is every day what we experienced a long time ago with the girl and she said that it helped nothing to grow we are doing it like the explosion of a young player that he is doing very well and more unprotected by you who are good and the truth is that he is a very important player that a great appearance for the club for us for all but that we have to carry it calmly as it was my moment too and not put too much responsibility on him That's a tough time where it's more difficult to get in than when it was my turn where things were different or where the team had a fluidity.

I found out that I was going to just make sure whoever got in wasn't going to have a hard time and well sometimes when Things are not going so well, it is much more difficult to enter and put that pressure on a 17-year-old boy, not normal, he has a lot of quality, he has a lot of potential, but you have to take him calmly for the sake of the half-eaten start, too, so that he says yes. I want Neymar to return to Barça many times, if we talk at a sporting level and he is one of the best in the world and the truth is that I would love for him to come back and stay in the locker room because everyone knows what he did on the field but he stayed in the locker room and he was not a very happy person where he was always happy where he had fun both on and off the field and he made the user happy the partners that you recognize in the last

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s we did that it is true that perhaps some He has a grudge because he came back because of the way he left and what would you say to them in this sense of saying well, yes it is true that happened but he would also contribute a lot.

How normal is it that people who see him that way would see him? Well, because of the way he left and I also like that whole moment that he let us go that way we did everything possible and tried to convince him not to do it but in the end we all want to win and we all we all want to have the best and people also want to watch football and want to win and I think that as I said before he is one of the best and he contributed a lot to us on the field but people's thoughts are also understandable because it can be outside of a way that we didn't like it but if the ending could come back today it is the option nearby if someone knows how to ask organize a way to ask for forgiveness or articulate it it could be yes or me and he is I think he really wants to give back he always seemed sorry From what he had done, I think that last year he did a lot to come back and well, I think that would be the first step that he would take to try and also be well in football.

He is a little injured now but all season he is scoring a lot of goals. Yesterday I have also He has always been good, he always performs at a very high level and even though he is different, he has a lot of imbalance, a lot of one against one, he has a goal. The truth is that it is playing differently. There is no other boy that you also know less than Neymar, but played with him as well. It is said that, according to what he said in an

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, he said that he would like to see that it is not impossible that seeing Neymar and Lautaro does not have next year at Barça, that it is not possible, so not as much as it is spectacular now that the conditions that You have it, it is impressive that you could already see that he was going to be a great player but I think that in this last year he exploded and showed what he is showing, a very strong player, a player who has one on one is very good, he has a lot of goals. that within the area he fights with anyone who is there, he holds it, he turns, he looks for it on his own and he also has a lot of quality, he is a very very complete player, look, 3 has flown, this is what he also said that Atlanta had loved it for many years. visual that he followed visuals and he loved his basic movements it would be the bomb to be able to put them together here not the skin was shouted s and have it all and try to fight but but if he even has many many similar game projects Louis then the two handle each other very well with your body, hold on to the ball when turning, download at the time of goal, I think they have similar things and it will help you get into the national team for this Copa América, which is a Copa América, which for us is a relaxed success. with a step and that many things are changing.

You think that the boot cannot help you. It is the first title with the so-called salient access to the previous Copa América and it is a great Copa América where it did what was important. It is also true that we came from a long time ago. change and the team in the end we finished when well it ended showing that it could be reliable after we played important friendlies it also gave up in a good way and well now we have another opportunity with the team a little more oiled and with the players with more experience he is still a player It's important that what happens is that questions come to mind as topics come up.

I'm not saying this because you have spoken very well about voting or she has said that maybe they could complement each other. Luís himself has once said that it would be good for the Barça signing would be a striker thinking that he is going to be of an age that has some problem. You think that they could complement each other, one who arrives new and the other the experience he has here to take over in the medium term, yes, I think so, like I always said all the good things, a player ends up adapting and if they have to play they adapt and I think he also has a lot of experience and could help a lot with the adaptation of the striker to the club to the league but well, those are all assumptions, it goes back to the music from the champions which is what excites us all and you go to the Naples field where you pay homage to God to achieve what it represents for you and the truth is that I really want to go to see that for a long time It was never our turn to play at the stadium and in the end it arrived and I am very excited to know how this is experienced, although it is another remodeled stadium, people are in a different way, the fact of playing in that one in that place is going to be an experience of very passionate Latin people who are like crazy that Messi says terrain terrain already provide saying and separator there has been because they will take away from us he said plot of honey that the Neapolitan be known the way of being the madness they have for football I have also had teammates who played in that place like the chicken and he told me many things about what he sees.

The truth is that I am very excited to be able to go to that match and in this one he surprised Madrid in the victory of the attack yesterday against the book against the champion. from Europe, which seemed impossible, who lost a match in the Champions League, he went to Simeón. It is true that when the draw came out I told him that we were talking to you there on the stand that it was going to be a very close tie because Atlético Madrid in this competition competes a lot in duels. individual two games is very very strong and doing it was demonstrated by some brothers that anyone can happen, that they are going to compete and they are going to be there to make the ground happen to you because this season in regido he criticized criticism and even from his own part his fans that you only spend your time as coach boa it seems that he did a spectacular job in Atlético in which year after year it is being renewed, players are coming in, players are coming out, he is attracting players and he continues to get results and with an idea for a long time in which the Players are convinced of what they do and that is why they perform in the way that makes them laugh at me.

The truth is that there is a lot of merit in spending so many years and always competing, another one that next year will not be able to compete in 12 years is the city is their their last chance until the punishment, what do you think about two years and being able to compete not completely without surprise because no one thought that something like that would happen, not with a club as powerful as it also happened in the case of del par and that they solved it and in the end he paid a fine I still don't remember how it was to close or not if in the end I end up doing so that the system is not the champions with what with the players he wants with the club with the money he spend is going to be to close we have to be attentive to some grandpa in case he wants to come out like the deal and we have no I don't know but surely if the place and we get to enter the champions or there are many players who may be looking for a way out because or maybe not but but it was the champions it is very very nice and going two years without playing it can be a gem who are the greats well this can complicate everything how difficult it is to make the pair and it was playing to sleep and liverpool vienna lost aesthetically and loses is very close but I think that like this, all of Liverpool, Juventus, Paris, I think that Madrid, I think that today they are the strongest that you see in Istanbul.

I hope it's not funny. It's been many years and many years since we won the last one and I'm really looking forward to it. to be able to enjoy the dunk again yes yes because especially the last one we had very very close and we left it capable and I think it was a very good opportunity to have been able to get another one in the film is the most of the film is that it is made the series of the season you even say before the game starts that what happened to us with román and vice, super psyched up, we knew that liverpool could score a goal on that field and he leads that what had not happened doesn't happen again the downturn of and not of the game and that they pass us over because the truth is we did not compete and they were superior in everything and so we all had opportunities to try to score a goal and end the tie and we did not do it, we were not aware of how prepared and we did not It is, it's like what you think of Cristiano's performance in the Calcio.

He continues to score normal goals with a lot of goals. He is a predatory striker who loves to score goals and I think that any day he plays it is going to be a ball, he has a lot of good things. as a forward and at the minimum he becomes so it was normal in the end well I last your wish for this final stretch of time well that we can get something back on track that we can have the peace of mind that we can and perform in a better way than we have been performing since January towards here we still have a lot to continue growing and we can do it we are on paths we have to have a little patience but hopefully we can change this situation for the good of all I come from the lips of Berlin of Granada when they connected your video in the giant fouls people stood up to produce the first time that a footballer won the award for best athlete of the year together with hamilton voted by great athletes and great journalists also what it means for you to win a laureus that are like In their sports houses, the truth is that it was impressive not to be able to win that award, I told him because generally a prize is given, the winner is given an award for an individual athlete and being the first to do so at the group sport level was impressive.

I really want to be the truth and to live everything that it means to be there because of the personality that they are going for because of what the award means because of the importance of whatwhats up but now that they told me and I couldn't it wasn't because I had another commitment and which one I didn't try to change I tried to do everything to be present at the gala but I was left with the desire hopefully next year I can come back even if I'm not the winner you can enjoy of that night and development the other captain who is good at the achievements as they wait for people to speak I spoke with pus and before the gala after from time to time he spoke very well he also told me what it had been like when they gave me the name of the winner.

He sent a video, we were in contact, you came from winning the Laureus. It also took you until recently your sixth Ballon d'Or there and you left something there about the beta withdrawal, but I suppose we have two and they stuck with that, I hope, but well, actually, it's one. It's going to complete and you don't know when when things but today I feel very good in matters that I feel better than in previous years I think that I am not scoring goals but but on a physical and leg level the truth is that I feel very good I was 40 but