The Argentine star Lionel Messi is training in the United States with the Argentine soccer team ahead of the friendlies against Ecuador and Guatemala, preparatory to the Copa América 2024. In the run-up to these commitments, the man from Rosario gave an interview with the media Infobae in which spoke, among other topics, about preparation for the continental competition.
“I think Argentina is always the favorite. Beyond the fact that we have won all of that (Copa América 2021, Finalissima and Qatar World Cup 2022), previously, when it was not possible that we could achieve the objectives, Argentina was also always the favorite,” Messi noted.
And he added: “When a championship starts, be it World Cup, Copa América or whatever, Argentina is a candidate just like Brazil and even more so in this Copa América. But I think that today the South American teams are very strong. Uruguay is very good, Colombia, Ecuador. Afterwards it becomes very difficult to play all the games, but I think it will be a very close Copa América.”
Messi spoke about the possibility of playing in the 2026 World Cup
Regarding the chance to participate in the 2026 World Cup with the Argentine national team, Messi was clear. “It depends on how I feel, how I am physically and being realistic with myself. And knowing if I am up to the task of being able to compete and help the teammates next to me. Knowing how I am physically. There is still a lot to do… . in quotes “there is a lot and a little left”, because it passes quickly, but there is a while left and I don’t know how I will be at that moment.
“Age is also a reality that is there, although it is a number, the games that I am going to play are not the same as the ones I played when I was in Europe in competition, which were every three days, or in the Champions League or in the League where I was, both in France and in Spain. But it depends on how I feel and what I feel when I’m next to my teammates and see if I’m still up to par or not,” analyzed the current Inter Miami player. MLS.
Messi surprised everyone by choosing the best team today
“And the best team, if we have to say, is Madrid, because they are the last Champions League champion, in recent years they have come… in the last one I think City won, but the previous one was them too,” Messi said. regarding the best club in the world at the moment.
And he added: “If you speak by results, it is Madrid, if you speak by game, I personally like Guardiola’s City and I think that any team where Guardiola is will be special because of his way of being, the way of training and how he makes his teams play. At the level of play for me, City is the best, as a result, Madrid.”
Messi spoke about what it means to be world champion
Messi explained what changed in his life after achieving World Cup glory: “Now I am aware that we are world champions. But it’s like everything changed but at the same time nothing changed.”
“We achieved the goal, which was obviously what I, my family and everyone wanted most, but then life goes on,” he remarked.
“At the same time, being a world champion you feel fulfilled. I achieved everything, I was able to achieve the goals and dreams I had and being able to say that is very difficult. That ‘that’s it’ is the correct definition and what I felt in that moment, because it was what was missing to… that’s it,” he said.
