Messi revealed the behind-the-scenes photo in bed with the Cup, how the idea came about and who took it

From dreaming about her so much, he fell asleep hugging her. It had been several hours since the conquest and they were still in bed. Pure passion. It was the same one that he had hypnotized him four years before her, when he looked at her as unreachable, and that he had seen before on other occasions. One winter in Brazil, he was going to pick her up, but she left with a German. The crush was in the Persian Gulf and the team captain had no problem showing up on his Instagram account when he took her to Argentina and posted a photo in which they see themselves covered by the sheet, recently arrived from Qatar.

The photo is from Lionel Messi and the world Cup at peace, like John Lennon and Yoko Ono, in his bed on Ezeiza’s property. In a spoon, embracing her with his left arm and resting her forehead on the trophy that seems comfortable leaning against her right one, hers with her tattoos. There is no other photo like this, not even one like it with Antonella Roccuzzo -his wife-, which portrays so well the story of that love that was unrequited for years and which sums up the consummation of a conquest.

The image, of course, was a construction. How was the backstage of the photo? The same thing wanted to know the journalist Hernán Claus de Ole, who interviewed the Rosary in Paris. “We arrived at dawn, we slept very little. I think with the time change I slept one or two hours at most,” Messi begins to tell, with the precise details that good stories have.

“It was 6 in the morning and I had already turned on the TV and in my room Rodrigo (De Paul) and Ota (Nicolás Otamendi) look out, who are on the other side. And wall to wall feels in the property, so they must have heard me going to the bathroomthat I got up and turned on the TV,” the resolution suspended.

“I don’t know why I had finished with the Cup that evening, it was in my room, they had left it for me. I had him next to him, Rodrigo appeared, I put myself like this and he said: ‘Come, I’ll take your picture'”, he revealed the origin of the sequence of “The couple” which also includes a companion having breakfast in bed and other typical scenes of married life”.

“(De Paul) He’s used to the photo… He’s a very important person for the group from a football point of view and also in humans. Because it makes the difficult times a little more relaxed and it’s good that these things happen, take it another way. And that’s not always the case, he has his moments too, even though people always see him messing around and laughing. But in working hours he is the first to offer the maximum, to want more and it is very important for the group, ”thought the creator of the picture of lovers.