Messi congratulates Maialen Lujanbio

Euskaraz irakurri: Messik Maialen Lujanbio zoriondu du

(This news has been published on December 28, 2022, on the Day of the Innocent Saints)

Just when it seemed that the wave of congratulations to the winner of the 2022 Bertsolaris Absolute Championship, Maialen Lujanbio, was beginning to subside, the bertsolari from Hernania received a brief but exciting message today via Twitter from the Argentine Lionel Messi, the undisputed number one in world football. This is how the publication reads: “Many congratulations on his last great triumph, Maialen. Admiration!”

Messi and Lujanbio, both unique in their modality, met in January 2018, when the bertsolari, after proclaiming herself the winner of the 2017 Bertsolaris Absolute Championship, was chosen to take the honor roll in the match between Real Sociedad and FC Barcelona in Anoeta. Almost five years later, the stars aligned again and on December 18 the two legends were the main stars of the day: Lujanbio took his third txapela in Pamplona and at almost the same time Messi touched the sky in Qatar, winning the only title that had resisted him, the World Cup. Two stories that crossed again.

Lujanbio also referred to Messi in the first verse that he sang at the beginning of the afternoon session of the unforgettable final that took place at the Navarra Arena stadium:

Ia sargardo, ardo / patxaran ta abarren

Tragoak ea hona / txinparta dakarren

Ganbaran egon gara / palkoan Sadarren

Zelaia hutsik eta / Lionel Qatarren

Mobilei disimuluz / begiratu aren

Likewise, at the end of the interview carried out last Tuesday in Euskadi Irratia, the journalist Iñaki Guridi asked the bertsolari from Hernania if she had received any congratulatory message from Messi, to which she replied no, that she was “waiting”.