There are just over 40 days to go Qatar World Cup 2022, Leone Messi confessed in an interview what his steps would be in Argentina national team after the World Cup. With this edition there will be five participations in the maximum selection competition. And at 35, a question arises: will he continue to wear the blue and white jersey?
In the chapter “First Person: Lionel Messi” available on the platform Star +the attacker of paris st germain was interviewed by Sebastián Vignolo. There he analyzed his career in the national team, a love affair born on 29 June 2004, in a friendly U-20 against Paraguay. And he was blunt about his future.
The former Barcelona confessed that this will be his last participation in a World Cup: “It’s my last World Cup. Definitely yes”Lion launched.
And he added on his preparation for Qatar 2022: “I feel good, physically, I was able to do a great preseason this year that I hadn’t been able to do the previous year, it was essential to start differently and to arrive as I did it, with a lot of mentality and a lot of hopes ”.
History wanted his first title to come just 17 years after that debut. “For me it was essential to be able to win something with the national teambecause otherwise I would always remain with the backbone of the lost finals, of not having been able to consecrate myself “, he confessed The flea The Copa América won against Brazil at the Maracana, just over a year ago, remained.
Also, in other passages of the interview he talked about his way of being and his family: “I am normal, as I have always said. People out there imagine anything and I am as normal as anyone else. I was brought up in a that little boy, with the values that both my father and my mother instilled in me and then I strengthened them in Barcelona, a club with very strong values. I have always grown up with that philosophy. I have always taken refuge in a lot of my family, for me it’s the most important thing and that’s where I feel happy. Thank God I’m lucky to do what I like, what I’ve dreamed of since I was little, to have a wonderful family. My brother, my old man , my wife’s family, “he said.
And he gave his opinion on the technical director of the national team, Lionel Scalloni: “He is a very close person, who talks a lot with the player, who always tries to be there for whatever he is and then a person who lives it a lot. You can see that he works for and for football and you can see that he likes it. what he does, he suffers a lot in games. He deserves everything he went through also because the process he went through was not easy and he was the one who put it all together, “he added.
Source: Clarin
