Leo Messi, in a match with PSG. /
The PSG star assures in an interview with Sport that he will return to live with his family in Barcelona and that he would love to be the technical secretary of the Barça club in the future
He will return to live in Barcelona, he would love to work at the Barça club one day as technical secretary, he has differences with president Joan Laporta on the way he treats his departure and he is not considering retirement after the World Cup in Qatar. Those are the main conclusions from the interview that Leo Messi gave to the Sport newspaper.
«What is almost confirmed, and certain, is that we are going to live in Barcelona again and that our life will be there. It’s what my wife wants and what I want. I do not know if it will be when my contract with Paris ends, but we will return to Barcelona to live », explained the Argentine star.
«I always said that I would love to be able to help the club (Barcelona) in what could be useful and add to make it well. I would love to be a technical secretary at some point. I don’t know if it will be at Barcelona or not. Or if it will be otherwise. If there is the possibility, I would like to contribute again in what I can because it is the club that I love and I would love for it to continue to be well, to continue growing and to continue being one of the best in the world, “he said.
Faced with the journalist’s question: ‘Laporta commented that he thought he would say about playing for free, would he have done it if they had asked him?’, Messi denied that he was being asked that end. “The truth is that, as I explained on my way out, I did everything possible to stay. I was never at any time asked to play for free. I was asked to cut my salary by fifty percent and I did it without any problem. We were in a position to help the club more. The desire and desire of me and my family was to stay in Barcelona, ”Messi emphasized.
“Nobody asked me to play for free but at the same time it seems to me that the words that the president said are out of place. They hurt me because I think he doesn’t need to say that, it’s like getting the ball off you and not assuming its consequences, or taking charge of things. This makes people think or generates a type of doubt that I think I do not deserve, “he added.
In the running for the Ballon d’Or, which will be awarded on November 30 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the six-time winner of the trophy explained that he does not think about it: “If it arrives, it would be extraordinary because of what it would mean to win one more. The seventh would be crazy. If not, nothing happens, “said the Argentine.
At 34 years old, the Argentine forward of PSG insisted that he lives “day by day”, without thinking about hanging up his boots. Will he retire after the World Cup in Qatar? He was questioned. “After what happened to me, I live day by day, year by year. I don’t know what will happen at the World Cup or after the World Cup. I don’t think about it. Whatever has to happen at that moment will happen.
In terms of the Argentine national team, he said: «I am very excited to do great things at the World Cup. We come from winning the Copa América after having searched for it for so long, from being so close for so long without being able to consecrate with the national team. After this, the illusion is great for what is to come, “he added.
«We are fine today for today. We still need to be one of the great candidates. We are not because there are better teams. We are on the right track, the dynamics are good and the atmosphere is good. Winning helps a lot and this is going to make us grow even more », he spread over the albiceleste.
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