The only time I saw in person Lionel Messi he could still entertain himself with boyish games. In fact, he was doing a gymnast on the top bars of a bus Iberiawhen this company opened its airport and he arrived with a few friends from a flight that crossed the ocean so that part of the passage would continue to Barcelona and the rest will stay in the capital of spain. Then it was so far in time that even airplanes at Barcelona they were forced to make those transfers, or so I think.
It was a boy, I tell you. Close to him were the other passengers, talkative, a bunch of friends. He, more circumspect, perhaps compelled by the advice of doctors or personal trainers, made his arms stretch out as much as possible. His stature was already the one we know him. He was also the one who later became famous, not only because he is perhaps the most important footballer in the history of this sport, but also because he is quieter than any of his partying or silent colleagues. He is, perhaps, the least talkative man around him, and perhaps that is why he meets so many family (before in Barcelonanow in Paris), so you always hear whoever is speaking for you.
This should not be entirely so, because very recently someone who knows him closely told me that he not only speaks, but also has an excellent humor, although he does not deny his state of mind when he is overcome by the discomfort that in the past three years has been beyond his patience and, in my opinion, his merits.
Regardless of the reasons you have handled the Barcelona Soccer Club, in which the footballer has not entered, left angry with the club of his life, and it seems that he will return to it when his life as a player expires. maybe.
In any case, that night when I saw him alone, flexing his muscles on an Iberia bus, I allowed myself to say some amateur words to him, and he responded very kindly, illustrating this with some monosyllables that I found stimulating, because of an idol one even appreciates a smile waving your hand as you walk away. A few years later I was closer to Messiin the sense that I was an intermediary between the board, then prey to a cosmic mistake regarding the player’s need, and someone who had information and data that would have helped his defense in one of the legal incidents in which he He felt lost and hurt.
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As a result of that circumstance I allowed myself to ask my close friend Messi that I asked him for an autograph for my grandson, who was not yet a Real Madrid player, and who in any case continues to wear the Barca shirt signed by “the best footballer in the world”. Word, by the way, of the madridista grandson. I confess that since he left Barça my mourning for the great player has continued to blind my eyes, until this noon when I am writing this Time.news from Guadalajara, Mexico, I saw him singing, at the top of his lungs, his head held high, his diction (I could imagine) clear, clear, patriotic, it can be said. He sang the hymn, let no one be deceived or joked.
People say that Messi the anthem was not known. Well, he knows. That he has no ear. Well, she dared to sing. He is not known for his passion for music, what is more, they say that he never sang the anthem in equally decisive games. Well, there was the most beloved soccer player in our history with the anthem on his lips; the man of the silent music was the man of the sung music, and then he entered the field and wanted to be light and he was, and Argentina now he is happier and we Barcelona fans are also happier because he will never stop being one of us. Visca Messihonor a Argentina.