Video: Pablo Giralt breaks down, cries in front of Lionel Messi, viral reaction of Argentina’s captain | football curiosities

Not every day you sit in the living room of Lionel Messi’s house, you have him alone to tell him what you have been treasuring for a lifetime, you can look him in the eye to laugh with him. Many are overwhelmed by emotion. Pablo Giralt, an experienced journalist, simply got over it.

In a talk that was presented as that and not as a formal interview on DirecTV, the communicator expressed all his admiration for the Argentine captain, who will seek his long-awaited world title in Qatar.

That’s what they talked about: the last World Cup -which the journalist prayed was not the last-, the day Hugo Tocalli put on a match to put him in the Argentine shirt and prevent him from going to play for Spain, the role of Antonella Roccuzzo and her children when defeats come, from the narrator’s most heartfelt stories in the career of who is obviously his idol and from the surprise for Messi: “I didn’t know it was you who was telling the story.”

But the epilogue of the conversation did put the left-hander to the test: Giralt thanked him for the time and kindness of allowing him to enter his house and suddenly he could not hold back his tears. She was apologizing, trying to avoid the camera as Messi leaned back on the couch, not sure what to do, until she grabbed his arm and simply said, “Thank you.”

The journalist calmed down from there and confessed: “I am a kid from Venado Tuerto, my city, who dreamed all my life of doing this. But I never thought I would be lucky enough to be able to accompany you with my story, with my love for your career, and I thank you with all my heart,” he said.

“Thanks to you. I am excited to be able to reach people in Argentina or the world in general that always accompanied me, admired me from the football or the person; that they can get to know through this, the interview, the screen and I am also grateful for the love I got in my career, ”Messi concluded.