Messi regrets the phrase ‘what are you looking at, silly. He goes there and the celebration of Topo Gigio for Van Gaal

Lionel Messi has not spoken since he won the World Cup in Qatar last December, at least formally and in a studio. Speaking to the program street dogs from the station urban playthe Argentine spoke with Andy Kusnetzoff in Paris to remember everything he experienced that Sunday in the Lusail stadium when he beat France in the penalty shootout.

Despite the joy of winning the title, the Paris SG star assures that he did not like what happened in the match against Netherlands, where the tension left many controversial images for history. Between them, the celebration of the Topo Gigio for the Dutch coach Louis van Gaal or his words to the rival striker Wout Weghorst.

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In the quarterfinals against the Netherlands, Messi celebrated his goal by imitating the celebration of Topo Gigio: “He came out at the moment. Some of my teammates told me: ‘Did you see what Van Gaal said?’ And when everything ends, what happened happened. I didn’t like that. I didn’t like what I did. I didn’t like the ‘go there’. These are moments of tension, nervousness. I wasn’t thinking of anything. I don’t like leaving that image.”

“I would have liked Diego (Maradona) to give me the Cup. At least that he sees Argentina champion with what he loved the National Team. That photo would have been very nice too. Above, as much as he and many people who love me were strong. The song was a boom for everyone. From above I was pushing,” she says.

In addition, he confirms that he really likes the song by La Mosca, “Guys, now we got excited again”:“the song is very good. Before the World Cup I said I really liked that song, but it hadn’t gone viral yet. Little by little, people began to sing it more, it made itself felt. In the World Cup the whole world was with that song, not only the Argentines. It is a rhythm and lyrics that are contagious”.

Messi looked back to remember his first steps at FC Barcelona and, especially, to send a message to that young man: “I would tell him that something extraordinary awaits him, something he could not imagine. That it will have a very beautiful pathwith hard moments that you will have to overcome but never give up on your dreams because in the end he will have his most desired reward and he will have a happy endinglike it was a movie.”

Messi had been yearning for years to experience such a magical moment as winning the World Cup: “I saw her there and I couldn’t not do what I did. The Cup called me, it told me ‘come and grab me, now you can touch me’. I saw her there that she was shining in that beautiful stadium and I didn’t think about it ”.

The man from Rosario has acknowledged that he has not watched the final game again and that the night before the match he slept well and did nothing special.

“I saw summaries, plays, people’s celebrations when we were world champions, but the final itself, the 90 minutes, I never saw them again.”

Leo abounds: “The truth that that day changed everything for me and for everyone, It was something impressive and now we can say it. What we dreamed of so much, what I wanted so much throughout my career and well, the foul for foul came almost to the end ”.

Argentina celebrated the conquest of Qatar for several days: “The truth is that something inexplicable because I don’t think something like this ever happened or I don’t remember it and well all that energyall that desire from everyone, I think it made it happen in the end ”.

He also had words for his wife Antonela Roccuzzo: “We talked before going to sleep, but without touching the game much, or anything special. We did more or less the routine that we had been doing every day before the games or the two or three days before that we more or less repeated the same thing.but, but the truth is that it was very calm, I was able to sleep very well”.

By last, Messi He explained that he had a million messages from instagram and it was blocked. There were messages that I didn’t get to see, it was crazy. “It is something very nice that other athletes recognize you in that way. I am not much to answer or comment on photos, at most a like”.

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