Leo Messi greets fans at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium. (Juano Tesone, special correspondent)
The captain of the Argentine national team, Leone Messiidentified with the fans, ensuring that the footballers have “the same anxiety, desire and delusion” in view of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, which will start on November 20.
After Honduras’ beating (3-0) in Miami on Friday night, which brought the unbeaten record in the era of Lionel Scaloni to 34 games, Messi stressed the need for “go easy” on the way to the World Cup.
“We have a great team, a great group, but the World Cup is special. We are just like them (the fans). We are very anxious, eager and excited, but we must be calm and go step by step, “asked the captain.
Messi, 35, will play his fifth World Cup with the aim of reaching the title he was denied in the final he lost to Germany in Brazil in 2014.
When asked about the closeness of the competition and the risk of playing so many matches due to the concentration of the calendar, the star speculated that “Everyone knows how to take care of himself.”
“Personally I feel good, different from what it was last year when I arrived at Paris Saint-Germain. I knew it would be like that. Last year I had a bad time, I never finished meeting but now I feel more comfortable with the club, the locker room, the match and my teammates “, he made the difference.
Messi started the season in France with a great performance: he leads the list of assists (7) in Ligue 1 and has scored 4 goals in 8 games, half that of Brazilian team-mate and friend Neymar.
He also did this in the Europa Champions League, a competition in which PSG won the two games played from their group with the contribution of a goal from the Argentine.
Source: Clarin
