Messi’s dilemma: “Sometimes rivals look at me ugly…”

Leo Messi has offered an interview to Olé in the days prior to Qatar 2022 and, of course, the World Cup event has been the focus of the talk of the striker who will seek the title he most desires, in what will be his last chance. The one from PSG arrives in a great moment of form and with the confidence gained with the achievement of the America Cup in 2021.

On the experience acquired in the previous world championships, Messi comments the following: “Well, in the first one I was very young. I enjoyed it and at the same time I had the innocence and the anger of wanting to play, of wanting more. On the one hand, it’s good and on the other hand I missed out on a lot of things just thinking about it. After the World Cup 2014, where we did very well, that it was an unforgettable experience, where I really enjoyed it and where it became clearer than ever that the main thing and the important thing is that it be a strong and united group. what that ultimately leads to the important goal. Today I feel a lot of similarities between this group and the one from 2014 and all that process until the end of world. It seems very similar to me on that side, the group that was put together, the group and mental strength I think is very important. Afterwards, I think I learned how to start the World Cup well and win the first game, I think it’s fundamental and it marks you a lot for the rest of the game. world. And I don’t know, later I’m taking things that I was learning “.

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One of the great difficulties that Argentine players have suffered in recent big events is the pressure to win. Many great figures have left without a title and that has weighed on occasions. He also spoke on this tricky subject Messi: “At the pressure level, I think we have to isolate ourselves from everything that people are experiencing. Although we have a great illusion, we are also realistic and aware that we are going through a good time; at the same time we have to know that it is a World Cup, That is so difficultt. Where all the details add up, any detail at the same time can leave you out of a game. That in a game anything can happen. that logic does not always hold; that we have to go from the first to the last game in the same way. It is a group that always does it and whatever the match, they play it with the same intensity and concentration and I think that is very important. And knowing that we are going to fight her but that we are not going to be champions of entrance as we Argentines think”.

In some previous interviews, the captain of the albiceleste reiterated the importance of the first game and in this appointment with Olé he was firm in his idea: “You have to think about the first game. Start winning, as I said before, it is essential start off on the right foot, add three and I think it gives you peace of mind for the next thing. Today we say it can be such and such and then it happens differently. To us too In the last World Cup before going we were already first. We were already in the round of 16, we were thinking about the crossover and in the end everything was different. And I think that things always happen in the World Cup that you don’t imagine, which are a priori rare. And we have to think about the first game”.

awkward rivals

Messi told a curious fact but that is repeated more than he would like in each game. In the interview, he narrates how he experiences the uncomfortable situation in which a rival asks for his shirt but he cannot give it to him: “Well, the players sometimes give me a thing, I tell them I already promised someone else and over there he looks at you ugly. ‘He’s lying to me’, ‘You don’t want to give it to me’, but I already promised it to another. In all matches, most of the time I change both jerseys. And then, the issue of people lately has been happening a lot, in some I got a scare like in the last match of the National Team when the security came and even hit me. But hey, generally they are very nice signs of affection and for someone to do something like that with all that it means and so crazy and what they do knowing what can happen to them later… Apart from that, you don’t know what the hell to do, how are they doing to act security. Sometimes they come aggressive and it doesn’t take that much either. But yes, they are uncomfortable moments for everyone because of what is generated.”