Leo Messi's career with the Argentine team has been a constant struggle to win the favor of his people, who saw him take his first steps in football but also who saw him leave as a child for Barcelona. The criticisms that have almost always accompanied him with the albiceleste shirt were totally forgotten with the conquest of the World Cup. The now resounding Argentine idol wanted to remember his successes and failures in a nice message.
"From Grandoli to the World Cup in Qatar, almost 30 years passed. There were nearly three decades in which the ball gave me a lot of joy and also some sadness. I always had the dream of being a World Champion and I didn't want to stop trying, even knowing that perhaps it would never happen", Messi begins his message on his Instagram account, where he also publishes a particularly emotional video.
The images begin with one of the first interviews that Messi gave, even as a child, in which he explained his greatest desire: "To play with the national team." Then you can see his debut with the albiceleste, the lost final of 2014 and the best moments of the past World Cup, which crowned him as the best player in the tournament and perhaps in history.
The '10' achieved in Qatar the gimp that was missing from his incomparable record, in his fifth participation, at the age of 35, in a World Cup. "This Cup that we won is also for all those who did not achieve it in the previous World Cups that we played, like in 2014 in Brazil, where everyone deserved it because of how they fought until the final, worked hard and wanted it as much as I did... And the we deserved even in that damn final", continued Messi, who recalled the final lost two years ago against Germany.
Messi also remembered another great idol of Argentine soccer, Diego Armando Maradona, who disappeared in 2020: "It is also from Diego who encouraged us from heaven. And from all those who always spent their time supporting the National Team without looking so much at the result but the desire that we always put into it, also when things didn't turn out the way we wanted".
Finally, he had words for the 'boys', "a beautiful group" directed from the band by Lionel Scaloni since 2018 and led on the field by Messi. The former Barça player remarks that the title belongs to "all the people of the team who, being anonymous, work day and night to make it easier for us."
"Many times failure is part of the path and learning and without disappointment it is impossible for success to come. Thank you very much from the bottom of my heart! Let's go Argentina!!!", concludes the message Messi, who this Tuesday will receive a warm tribute from his people , in the street of the champions in Buenos Aires, which he has pursued so much throughout his long and successful career.
