History Messi

“But being the best for such a long time shows that he has the unusual winning character of a person who not only likes what he does, but who is a perfectionist, who never has enough, if he scores two, he wants the third.”

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Messi Family

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Lionel Messi graphics series:  “He’s a leader and is offering classes in beautiful football.“

“This genius is impossible to describe.”

Day 28: Messi outside football

Leo Messi na casa de Kun Aguero

“He plays like a boy: instinctive, free, with an acceptance of his own ability that would be arrogant if it weren’t so undeniable. When he first came to Barcelona as a 13-year-old, he was already himself. In training, he would score epic solo dribbling goals and then walk back as if nothing happened, to the astonishment of his new coaches. He expected such things, having never known any other way. Asked many years later whether he considered himself more Argentine or Spanish in terms of his style — a significant question, considering that legally he could have played for either national team — Messi said, ‘Argentine, because despite the fact that I have grown here and learned a lot in Spain, I never changed the way that I play, the way I have done since I was very small.’”

“It is a boy’s fearlessness, enthusiasm, calm and humility, too, that help explain why Messi is already considered one of the greatest ever to play the world’s game. He did not yell at the referee or clamp a threatening hand around an opponent’s neck or fake a foul and dive to the ground. He remained apart from ugly words and scuffles and expulsions that marred the matches. Instead, he trumped cynicism with genius.”

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