Leo Messi It is not usually exposed. His public story, for years, was built more from silence than from explanation, more from the lawn than from the microphone. During his time on Luzu TV, the Argentine captain allowed himself an unusual personal x-ray, made up of manias, contradictions and assumed oddities.
“I was always obsessed with order.“, Messi admits naturally. That trait, he says, even modified his coexistence with his partner: “At first she was a disaster and I was very neat. I changed it. Now we are at the same level.”
That same character appears when he talks about affections. Messi defines himself as “not very demonstrative”, although he recognizes himself as detail-oriented, romantic in everyday life, more comfortable in small gestures than in big statements. “It’s hard for me to express it, but I like that the people I love are well.”he explains.
In the middle of this intimate portrait, an unexpected, almost domestic scene appears that definitively humanizes the character. “I like wine“, he says, and immediately adds the disconcerting tagline: “wine and Sprite to make it hit fast and it passed well.” Messi laughs at himself and concludes: “Aside from that, it’s nice, in the heat it happens better.”
He stopped therapy
He himself describes it as “strange”. He expands that strangeness without filters when he talks about his need to be alone. “I have my share of being weirder than shit.”he confesses. He likes solitude, moments of silence, isolating himself from the “turmoil of the house” when the three boys run around and the noise saturates him.
Rarity appears again as an axis when he describes his state of mind. Messi recognizes himself as changeable, irritable in the face of small alterations to the plan. “If I have my day organized and something happens that changes it, I don’t like it,” he admits. He also doesn’t communicate what he feels. Things are saved. “I don’t do therapy. In Barcelona I did it and then I didn’t do it anymore. “I’m very into eating things, about keeping problems inside.”
In this internal process, the figure of the father occupies a central place. Messi bluntly admits that he always needed his approval. “I finished a game and I asked him.”
The story becomes denser when he goes back to childhood and the growth treatment that marked his destiny. The process began in Newell’s Old Boys, with a high cost and promises that were not always fulfilled. Messi remembers his mother traveling around Rosario to look for money that often did not appear. He clarifies that the club was not directly to blame, but a specific person was, whose name he decides not to say. Family anger is understood from the precariousness and uncertainty of that moment.
Barcelona
Then FC Barcelona arrived. “The idea was to never go to Barcelona, but that’s how things turned out“, he summarizes. There is no epic story of the jump to Europe, only the acceptance of an opportunity that appeared when the previous failed.
The closing of the story has an unexpected cultural twist with the memory of his meeting with Charly García in River. Messi describes that moment as “inexplicable”, marked by a special energy, a magic that dazzled him. He does not speak as a footballer, but as a spectator impacted by an artist who goes beyond his own myth.
