Lionel Messi, who is leaving PSG after two seasons to play for Inter Miamisaid in an interview with the beIN Sports channel, broadcast this Sunday in France, that he achieved everything as a player, adding that not winning the Champions League with the French team “were great disappointments”.
The Argentine star, who has just turned 36, highlighted that his daily life has not changed after winning the World Cup.
“The truth is that absolutely nothing has changed. The only thing I can say is that I am, that we are, world champions, and that I have nothing left to conquer, that I have already conquered everything”, said the star.
In his two years in Paris, the thorn in the side of not having managed to give the French club the dreamed Champions League title, which Messi won four times with Barcelona.
“One of the big goals was the Champions League and the truth is that we didn’t achieve it during those two years. I think they were big disappointments, but I think that it is also necessary to give importance to the championships that were conquered”, stated the Argentine star.
After a great reception in 2021, the year he arrived in Paris, this season, after the return of the World Cup and after the French team was eliminated in the round of 16 of the Champions League, some boos began to be heard from fans of the PSG against the star.
“From the beginning it was a very beautiful thing. Afterwards, people started to treat me differently. A part of the fans in Paris. The great majority continue to see me and treat me as they did in the beginning. from the PSG fans, which was not my intention, far from it (…). But I am with all the people who respected me, as I have always respected everyone since I arrived and nothing else”, explained Messi.
“It was a very difficult adaptation (in Paris), much more than I expected, despite the fact that I already knew people in the dressing room. It was difficult to adapt, not having a pre-season, adapting to the new club, to a new form to play, to new teammates, to the city to which it was very difficult to adapt at the beginning, for me and my whole family”, he added.
Qatar Cup
Messi recalled in the interview the campaign in the World Cup, last December, in Qatar, won by Argentina.
“It’s the most beautiful Cup of all and the most special as well. A World Cup is different from everything else, in the way it is experienced, given the repercussions around the world. Each country experiences it in its own way. And how Argentina experiences it it’s too beautiful and that makes it so special. It’s a month when the country is paralyzed and everything happens through the World Cup games”, said the star.
“We knew we were one of the candidates, but that a World Cup is very difficult. Many things have to happen. I don’t know if we saw ourselves as champions, but we were serious candidates, as were other teams. very well and we went with the intention of reaching the objective”, he said in the interview.
The competition got off to a bad start, with a loss to Saudi Arabia in the first game.
“Starting like this was one of the keys. It was a very hard blow for us. From then on we started to think and play in another way. We knew that we couldn’t make more mistakes and that any mistake could leave us out of the competition. It was one of the difficult times for us. The victory over Mexico made us depend on ourselves again and we went back to playing with the tranquility with which we had done until the first game of the World Cup”, he explained.
“Looking at everything that happened, although it was a hard blow at the time, I think it was a well-timed blow and in the end it was good for us,” he added.
“There were a lot of people besides my teammates who were very happy and emotional because I was world champion. I think there were a lot of fans, in addition to the fact that they supported their national teams, who wanted Argentina to be champions in part because of me too. And for me it was something extraordinary that people experience the Cup that way and want to see me world champion. Thank God it happened”, said the star player.
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individual achievements
In the interview, Messi was reminded that he scored 496 goals in his career in leagues.
“At this point in my career, I’m not worried about those things, I’m worried about what’s going to stay, with what I managed to achieve both with the Argentine national team and with clubs. I was lucky to win important titles like the Champions League, the World Cup Clubs, championships, cups. I was lucky to win everything and that’s really what will remain at the end of my career. There’s that too, the records or goals, but that’s secondary, they’re good recognition,” he said.
“Having achieved the goals with Argentina and on an individual and group level, is heading towards the end of an extraordinary career”, he concluded.
Source: Gazetaesportiva
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