🎙 | Thread for Lionel Messi's interview with laSextaTV's Hosted By jordievole
Messi's interview with jordievole
Messi on his Christmas holidays...
🗣 "I'm going to celebrate it in Argentina with my family." 🇦🇷🌲
Messi continues...
🗣 "When I was little, I always asked for something football related. A jersey, a ball, boots... My parents did everything to make me happy." 🇦🇷⚽️
Messi goes on...
🗣 "I even remember receiving a ball that was very expensive, the official ball of the league. My father and mother always did their best." 🇦🇷❤️
Messi continues...
🗣 "I'm not someone who talks a lot to the media, I prefer to talk more with people close to me." 🇦🇷
Messi goes on...
🗣 "I am a man of my word, I promised you the interview. I wanted to talk today." 🇦🇷🙌
Messi talks more about his personal life...
🗣 "Playing on the PlayStation? I stopped playing. It's more Thiago who plays. Before, I played all day long. After his birth, I stopped everything and then I played with him from time to time." 🇦🇷🎮
Messi continues...
🗣 "I admire many athletes: LeBron, Nadal, Federer. There's Cristiano in football. There are lots of athletes who give their best to succeed." 🇦🇷👏
Messi talks about Barcelona...
🗣 “Barcelona is my entire life. I lived everything here, more than in Argentina. I have a love relationship with this club and with this city.” 🇦🇷🇪🇸
Messi continues...
🗣 “The club has formed me, as a player and as a person. I give everything for Barcelona. I have a love relationship." 🗣🇦🇷🇪🇸
Messi goes on...
🗣 "Today I'm okay. It took a while before I started to feel well. I'm eager, and wanting to fight for all the titles that we compete for." 🇦🇷💪
Messi on Barcelona's current situation...
🗣 "The club are in a difficult situation. It's difficult for everyone. It's going to be very hard to be where we once were." 🇦🇷
Messi continues...
🗣 "I don't concern myself about what people say, everyone has their own opinion." 🇦🇷
Messi on if he has cried lately...
🗣 "I didn't cry because of sports issues, but I did suffer a lot. I did cry on other issues, but I prefer not to go into details."🇦🇷❤️
Messi continues...
🗣 “A lot people talk without knowing anything. People believe them because they are the ones who bring the news on TV or in the papers. “RMC” is a media-outlet who talked a lot of false stuff.” 🇦🇷‼️
Messi talks about his arrival in Barcelona...
🗣 "It was a difficult moment, because I was 13 years old and I was leaving everything behind me. Friends, the country...I was coming to a place where no one knew me." 🇦🇷
Messi continues...
🗣 "At that time I was shy, like stuck in a shell. I only thought about achieving my dream." #FCB 🇦🇷❤️
Messi on his son Thiago...
🗣 "Thiago is shy, he doesn't like it that everyone is talking to him, but he's getting used to everything." #FCB 🇦🇷
Messi on how he spends time with his children...
🗣 "I do anything! When you play football or other sports. When they come to bed wake me up: I love everything." #FCB 🇦🇷❤️
Messi continues...
🗣 "I watch Pokémon, DragonBall..."
🗣 "Nobita? (Bartomeu's nickname) Smiles." #FCB 🇦🇷
Messi continues...
🗣 "I never called Bartomeu 'Nobita', others did, haha.” #FCB 🇦🇷😆
Messi on his life...
🗣 "My life is very normal and sometimes boring. I get up, have breakfast, take the kids to school, I train, I go back." #FCB 🇦🇷
Messi goes on...
🗣 "My kids are addicted to watching YouTube, and using the iPad and TV." #FCB 🇦🇷🖥
Messi on if his kids complain about teachers getting close to them because they are his sons...
🗣 "Yes, they do, it bothers Thiago a lot, he is a shy kid and he doesn't like these kinds of things." #FCB 🇦🇷
Messi continues...
🗣 “I am a privileged person for everything I have experienced and for everything I live. But sometimes I want to be anonymous, sometimes I would like to go see a movie anonymously, or go to a restaurant.” #FCB 🇦🇷
Messi goes on...
🗣 "I will always be grateful because the love that everyone gives me is spectacular." #FCB 🇦🇷❤️
Messi on playing in an empty stadium...
🗣 "It's horrible. Everything feels very cold, the feeling it gives me is very bad. Everything is different and you can see it back in the results.” #FCB 🇦🇷🏟
Messi on Maradona's death...
🗣 “I couldn’t believe it when Maradona died, I got the message from my father and turned on the TV. Nobody is able believe that Diego is dead and that he is no longer with us. It’s terrible, and it’s odd." #FCB 🇦🇷😔
Messi on his tribute to Maradona...
🗣 "The people of Newell’s gave the shirt to me. That day I knew that I had to score a goal and it was strange. In a play out of nowhere, when I least looked for it, the goal appeared." #FCB 🇦🇷❤️
Messi continues...
🗣 "I want the best for my country. I don't like to talk about politics, but I would like things to improve. I want the people to be happy." #FCB 🇦🇷
Messi goes on...
🗣 "You feel that politics has become like football, some people are fans of a political figure and no one can say anything about him or criticize him." #FCB 🇦🇷
Messi on the 8-2 loss to Bayern...
🗣 "It was a horrible game for everyone. We knew it was complicated, we were coming off a bad run, but you can't imagine this result." #FCB 🇦🇷👎
Messi on wanting to be the best...
🗣 “I don’t play to be the best in the world. I play to win and give everything to my team” #FCB 🇦🇷❤️
Messi on never speaking to a psychologist...
🗣 "I should have been but never have, i don't know why. I struggle to take that step even knowing that I need it. Antonela insists and I know I need it but I'm someone who keeps it all in." #FCB 🇦🇷❤️
Messi on the famous burofax...
🗣 "I wanted to formalize things, I wanted to make it official. I told the President so many times that I wanted to leave, but he just refused to listen to me.” #FCB 🇦🇷📠
Messi goes on...
🗣 "Yes, I would send the burofax again. I'm eternally grateful and I love the club, Barcelona, and city. Everything the club gave me I deserved for what I did. I thought I needed a change, I completed a cycle." #FCB 🇦🇷
Messi continues...
🗣 "My kids were saying they didn't want to leave, but I felt like it was the best for me." #FCB 🇦🇷😔
Messi on Bartomeu's decisions...
🗣 "Bartomeu didn’t let me leave and he tried to hurt me by leaking things about me. He tried to make me look like the bad guy in the movie.” #FCB 🇦🇷💣
Messi on Suárez's departure...
🗣 "It did seem crazy to me how things were done. He left for free, paying the remaining years of his contract and he joined a team that fight for the same objectives as us." 🇦🇷🇺🇾
Messi continues to talk about Bartomeu...
🗣 “Bartomeu has cheated on me so many times. I can not tell you the things that he promised me, but I can tell you that he lied to me many times over the course of many years.” 🇦🇷💣
Messi on leaving for free last summer...
🗣 "I knew that if we went to court, we would have won. Not just one lawyer told me that, many did. But I didn't want to leave in that way." 🇦🇷❌
Messi talks about Pep...
🗣 "I don't know when I last got a message from Pep, but we have spoken, yes. About how things are, how he's doing at City, how things are going here. For me, he's the best coach." #FCB 🇦🇷🇪🇸
Messi on Luis Enrique and Pep...
🗣 "Luis Enrique and Pep Guardiola are the best coaches for me. They taught me a lot." #FCB 🇦🇷🇪🇸
Messi on Koeman's time at Barcelona so far...
🗣 “Koeman’s doing a good job. It is difficult because there are a lot of young players, but little by little we are growing." #FCB 🇦🇷🇳🇱
Messi on Tusquets...
🗣 "Tusquets said he would have sold me? It's of no use talking about it, it's in the past." #FCB 🇦🇷👥
Messi on if he decides in the dressing room...
🗣 "It's already year since they've said that, even in the selection. That my friends played, I didn't find it suitable. People believe it, as if decide who plays. It's so far from reality.” 🇦🇷
Messi on Barcelona's elections...
🗣 "I don't want to position myself with a Presidential candidate. I want someone who returns to club to where it belongs to win." #ElectionsFCB 🇦🇷🚨
Messi on staying if Xavi comes as a coach...
🗣 "Haha...I don’t know. Let’s see what happens in the elections and we will see afterwards. Let’s hope that we finish the season well and get a title." #ElectionsFCB 🇦🇷🚨
Messi talks about MSN...
🗣 "Yes, we talk from time to time. We have a group on WhatsApp. We maintain the relationship, almost every day." 🇦🇷🇺🇾🇧🇷
Messi on relationship with Griezmann...
🗣 "We share a healthy relationship, sometimes we drink mate together." 🇦🇷🇫🇷
Messi speaks on his future...
🗣 "I will not negotiate with other clubs. I will wait for the season to end and in June I will decide." 🇦🇷🚨
Messi continues...
🗣 “I always had the dream to live in America, and to play there.” 🇦🇷🇺🇸
Messi talks about the Champions League draw against PSG...
🗣 "We didn't believe it, we didn't want to play against Paris because we are not at our best moment but we will have to respect ourselves for our history." #UCL🇦🇷🇫🇷
Messi speaks about his retirement...
🗣 “After my retirement, I want to continue living the rest of my life in Barcelona.” 🇦🇷🇪🇸
Messi continues...
🗣 "Leaving for Real Madrid or Atlético Madrid? No, impossible." 🇦🇷❌
Messi goes on...
🗣 "I still want to be related to this club and city even after I retire." 🇦🇷❤️
Messi continues...
🗣 "If I leave, I would like to leave in the best way and later return to contribute to the club. Barcelona is bigger than any player." 🇦🇷❤️
Messi on @jordievole's presents (Manchester and Paris travel guides)....
🗣 "No, no, you keep them." 🇦🇷🤣
Messi talks more about his future...
🗣 “I don’t see myself getting involved in football after I retire, not as a coach. Maybe a sporting director.” 🇦🇷👀
Messi concludes...
🗣 "I hope we end this shitty year that we've all had well and that next year is better for everyone." 🇦🇷❤️
🎬 The end of the thread and Messi's interview.
