Heinze’s reflection, after the threats to Messi: “This distances Leo and any boy who wants to return”

Violence and threats hit Rosario this morning. The physical location of the event was a supermarket belonging to the family of Antonela RoccuzzoLionel Messi’s wife. The shop, Located at 2500 Lavalle Street, he woke up to 14 shots in the blinds. However, the recipient of the threats was the captain of the Argentine national team. “Messi, we are waiting for you. Javkin is a drug trafficker, he won’t take care of you…“, was the message they left for 10.

Logically, This news has shaken, and a lot, all of Argentine football. First of all, it threatens the possibility of Messi deciding to come to play in the country, given that, in these circumstances, both his and his family’s safety would not be guaranteed.

On the other hand, this threat mixes drug trafficking with politics, issues of which the great idol of Argentine fans is more than unaware.

Gabriel Heinze, Leo’s former teammate, referred to the issue shaking all of Rosario at the press conference. The current manager of Newell’s clarified that although he is not related to social networks, he discovered the act of violence. “I just figured it out. I started very early, was it yesterday? I have no information from the outside, I found out now”Heinze started by saying.

Then, he reflected and clarified that this could clearly affect Messi’s arrival in Argentine football in the future. “This is not just an attack on Leo, it’s an attack on everyone. Of course it pushes him away from Leo and everyone else. We talk about him for what Leo is, but there are also many guys who would like to come back. And he also takes you away from so many things,” he explained.

And he culminated by leaving his opinion on the acts of violence and how they overshadow a city like Rosario: “I think it’s crazy. I think he is our player and also because of the relationship I have, but also because of what can happen to other people. He makes you think if it’s worth it, if they give you a place to do the things you want, in such a beautiful city ”.

Chance to see it at Newell’s

Messi made his professional debut in Barcelona but was born in the lower ranks of Newell’s and has always shown his love for his hometown club. His dream is the illusion of all Leprosy fans, but also of Argentine football in general. However, this violent episode that shakes Rosario destroys any intention of repatriate to the prodigal son

At the age of 35, Messi is still in full swing, crowned the best of all by FIFA and negotiating what his fate will be once his contract with him ends. psg, half a year. You can continue to Paris, Barcelona is waiting and the mls He wants to take it to North America. Much will depend on how his team is doing in the Champions League (next week he will play the rematch against Bayern). But we always talk about Newell’s. Is there this possibility?

“He’s thinking about playing at Newell’s,” his friend Kun Agüero said during the World Cup. “Let’s wait and see what happens,” added cautiously Maxi Rodríguez, another club idol, who will have his Rosario tribute match in June, with Messi among the announced guests. “We don’t want to put pressure on him, it depends 100% on him”, explain the top management.

The truth is that seeing Messi play in Argentine football seems like a utopia. The economic context does not help, even if it would no longer be an impediment for Leo. The variable that weighs is that of the return to a society that for years has lived with the war on drugs in its streets: in 2022 alone there were 288 murders in the Great Rosary, and there are 57 in the first two months of 2023.

Recently, Michele Angelo Russo, DT of Rosario Central, has broken the bubble that usually dominates football to reveal what happens from the field to the outside. “It’s difficult for us to bring reinforcements. There are wives who don’t want to come and live in Rosario,” said the experienced coach. And he added: “It’s very difficult to say, it hurts a lot.”