Although it seems like a contradiction because of the age, at the age of 35 Lionel Messi dropped to his fifth World Cup showing his best version of the national team. Mature, full, surrounded by a group that comforts him in privacy and on the field, a winner, with an empty backpack of champion obligations in light blue and white… The debut will come with Saudi Arabia in this Qatari adventure, today at 11 pm Spanish, and the 10th takes over. Ask to be the voice of Argentina at the official conference. It’s a way of shouting to the soccer planet: “I’m here. I came here to win the World Cup”.
Of course the phrase Messi he did not mention it in his presentation at IBC in Doha. It’s not his style. But download a strong message. He did something similar in the 2021 Copa América, barely making it Brazil and before the premiere with chilli. At that time he said: “It is time to strike.” And it came out in a circle.
Now this Messi This affects his first answer: “I feel very good physically. I arrived at a good moment both personally and physically. I have no problems. I trained differently because I had a blow, as a precaution, nothing unusual”. And he clarified: “I didn’t do anything special. I took care of myself and worked as I have done throughout my career.”
This definition of Leo. As on Sunday, he trained normally on Monday, leaving behind previous tests at the University of Qatar that showed him different work due to a slight muscle overload. However, as if to establish that another alarm should sound every day on the 10th, there was another moment of uncertainty surrounding him due to an image rescued by FIFA which showed his swollen right ankle. Messi he dismissed everything in that opening sentence. Do not worry.
10 repeats a verb: “Enjoy”. One of his definitions is valid as a paradigm: “I don’t know if this is the happiest moment of my career, but I feel very good. He grabbed me at a different age, more mature. I try to enjoy every moment, to live it with intensity. Before, I didn’t have time to enjoy it. I just thought about the next game, about wanting to keep winning. Now I know everything better and I try to enjoy it. The fun now is most of all”.
Messi He wants to enjoy himself and he has to enjoy it because, according to him, he will be the last Leo in the World Cup: “It will probably be my last World Cup, my last chance to achieve that great dream that I will be my last World Cup. there is.”
the party with Saudi Arabia The captain thinks like this: “It will be difficult. We respect the rival. For many of my teammates, it was the first time at a World Cup. Everyone will handle the anxiety and nerves as best they can, but when the minutes tick by we will play like we do”.
It is perceived that people want it to be Leo’s World Cup. And Messi responded: “It makes me happy that many people like me.” And about how Argentina came, Leo compares: “This group reminds me a lot of 2014. They are very united, they know what they want. It’s good to go here. I feel very excited, very excited”.
what a harangue of Messi was in the locker room before Saudi Arabia? The captain summed up: “What I would say to my teammates is that they try to enjoy the moment. The World Cup is special and we don’t know if it will happen again. Enjoy the experience to the fullest, the people and the game. Then they isolate themselves and play while they know how to do it”.
The 10 insistently pursues his dream of lifting the World Cup: “What leads me to keep trying is the illusion, the desire, always wanting more. You always have to try. You don’t have to stay in wishing and thinking about what could be. In the end, then what God wants”
Source: La Verdad
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