When Lionel Messi puts the ball under his sole the game pauses. And when the Rosary star declares it, everyone is waiting. The world freezes. In the same way as when she dodges rivals in the Parc des Princes.

Just over 40 days before the Qatar 2022 World Cup, the Paris Saint Germain striker was interviewed by Sebastián Vignolo in a program of Star + and talked about everything. What surprised her the most was how intimate and familiar she was. Leo showed the world what he is like when he’s not on the green grass by breaking records.

The former Barcelona confessed that he has few close friends he trusts and that his inner circle is small. “I have few real friends. After that I have always taken refuge a lot in my family, which is the most important thing and where I feel happy, to be with them, with my friends, and I don’t need much more, “he said.

Being known as one of the best players in the world has its B side. “Being Messi takes away a lot of things from me and many times I’m sloppy about it … The boys tell me let’s go here or there and fine … But it’s true that I miss many of those things, even if the ones who suffer, I say it in quotation marks, are them because we forbid ourselves to do so many things … nothing We happen to take a couple of photos or autographs, but out there it’s nice to go out and spend time with the family or go unnoticed and we do it when we can, ”he said, showing his more familiar side.

the romantic side

The captain of the Argentine national team talked about it Antonella Roccuzzo, his great love. “I have my romantic side“He confessed. And he added:” From time to time I lift it, we have been with my wife for many years, so every now and then it is good to do different things.

“I didn’t invite her to the Eiffel Tower, we were close. Since we have lived here I have never gone upstairs, we went there many years ago, before Thiago was born, imagine … We came, we had fun, we liked it, but not much food … I am more than normal “.

The 35-year-old left-handed, who has announced that it will be his last World Cup with the Argentine national team, spoke of his team as a bad grid. That’s the one The flea not good with the grill. Moreover, he has always had colleagues to whom to delegate this task to accompany.

“I rarely use the grill, I don’t like it very much, I prefer to accompany. Here he made the roasts last year spaghetti (Di María), he made some good barbecues. Luis (Suárez) or my brother made them in Barcelona, ​​not me. I do it only for the family, the children and Antonela, and if there are many I don’t like it, I prefer to accompany “, she confessed.

his three children

When he arrived in Paris, he and his family had to change their routine overnight. It was not easy to leave the place where he lived for so many years: “We in Barcelona had everything, we had life already doneBoth Antonela, me, the children, the school, friends, friends, we came to school and everyone knew us and they also knew everyone.

And he said that his three children were the ones who got used to change the fastest: “But arriving in a new place, with a different language is not easy. At first we were afraid of the new, but above all we believed that they would suffer. for change and nothing to do “.

Messi confessed that he is trying to make his three children learn “to appreciate things, that you have to earn things day by day and not because they are lucky enough to have so many things, they think it’s easy”.

Regarding the future of his three children, the Argentine national team captain said: “I want Thiago, Mateo and Ciro to do what they want, what makes them happy and well. They love football, where they can find a field, a ball, but I like more that they enjoy being in a professional club where they ask you. Today I prefer that they stay in a small school or with friends “.

The Argentine idol also dedicated a few minutes of the interview to talk about Mateo, a character who grew up on social media with his father: “The boys drive me crazy, they always want to play and many times I tell them no and when we play in general I don’t leave them win, sometimes yes because if not Mateo … Mateo is the same as me when he was little and that’s bad because he doesn’t like to lose anything, he makes a mess, he loses and starts making a messHe fights with his brothers, he does not know how to lose and to avoid that many times I let him win ”.

Instead he spoke of the other two children: “Thiago is a phenomenon, calm, good for others, responsible. Mateo is the exact opposite of Thiago and then Ciro copies Mateo a lot, both go against the greats, but he has not yet defined his personality ”.