Leo Messi made an announcement that nobody wanted to hear 45 days before the World Cup

In case of exhibiting characteristics of Lionel Messi, the main one could be linked to its simplicity. Despite being one of the best soccer players in history, he never despaired of fame. On the contrary: he dodges the television cameras with the same ease that he eludes rivals, because he seeks to avoid any kind of exposure. However, when he gives an interview he is as decisive as he is on the pitch: in dialogue with the Argentine journalist Sebastian Vignolosaid that the Qatar World Cup 2022 possibly it will be the last with the Argentine National Team.

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Soccer fans try to get La Pulga’s date of birth out of their heads; They do not want to know anything by keeping in mind his age, and much less do they want to know what the retirement date will be. But little by little melancholy begins to impose itself on the scene, mainly in each question or answer linked to the epilogue of his career.

In the note for the section “In first person” of Star+, touched on a sensitive topic and was forceful. “This is my last World Cup, surely yes,” she confessed. Faced with such a statement, the South American interviewer sought to mitigate that sentence by describing that he looks splendid at 35 years old. And Rosario himself settled it: “I feel good, I’m fine physically. I was able to do a very good preseason this year that I hadn’t done the year before, that I started playing after a couple of dates. I had no rhythm, I went to the Argentine National Team and when I returned to France I had an injury in the middle. I never finished starting and this last preseason was essential to start in a different way”.



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The captain of the Argentine National Team spoke with Pollo Vignolo and made an announcement that no soccer lover wanted to hear.


However, Leo not only emphasized his football well-being but also gave too much importance to psychological issues. “For this season at PSG I arrived with a different head, with a different mentality and with a lot of enthusiasm”.

How do you imagine yourself in Qatar?

The first World Cup for Leo was Germany 2006, so he will have his fifth adventure in an event of these characteristics. In Brazil 2014 he flirted with the title (he lost the final against the Teutonic team), but now he will seek to close his world adventure with a title. “There is a bit of anxiety and nerves at the same time. Anxiety of wanting it to be now and the nerves of saying ‘well, we’re already there, what’s going to happen, it’s the last one, how is it going to go’. On the one hand, we see the time it arrives and on the other there is the shit of wanting it to go well for us”.

Apart from the logical uncertainty, the Argentine understands that those led by Lionel Scaloni They arrive at a splendid time. “We arrived at a good moment because of how everything happened, with a very armed, very strong group. But after a World Cup anything can happen. All the games are very difficult, that’s why a World Cup is so difficult and so special, because the favorites are not always the ones that end up winning or doing the path that one expected”, he closed.

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