As he prepares to defend the Copa América title he won three years ago, Lionel Messi already visualizes what will happen when the time comes to say goodbye to football.
“I don’t think I’m ready either (to leave football). I have done this all my life, I love playing ball, I enjoy the training, the day to day, the games… There is always a little fear that it will all be over,” he indicated.
Messi acknowledges that “it was a difficult step” to make the decision to leave Europe and land in an unknown destination like the MLS. “The fact of having been world champion helped a lot to look at things differently,” he added.
“I don’t think about it, I try to enjoy it. I am aware that there is less and less to go and I have a good time at the club with the people I have, having teammates and friends by my side. In the national team I had a good time with teammates and friends too.. I enjoy the small details that when I don’t play anymore I think I will miss”he declared.
Martín Arévalo, a journalist who interviewed Messi in the United States, asked him if Inter will be the last team of his career and the answer broke hearts in several places around the world, including Rosario, where Newell’s fans continued to dream of seeing him someday. playing for the team where he was born.
“Yes I think so. Today I think it will be my last club. I think so”said ’10’.
Messi has a contract with the American team until the end of 2025, at which time he will sit down to decide whether to renew for another period or make the decision to retire, which will surely cause an international impact.
Is Messi going to the World Cup?
A few days ago, from Argentina’s concentration in Miami, the Argentine attended Infobae and there he had already spoken about the topic of attending the 2026 World Cup.
“It depends on how I feel, how I am physically and being realistic with myself. And to know if I am up to the task of being able to compete and help the teammates next to me. Know how I am physically. There is still a lot left to… in quotes “there is a lot and a little left”, because it goes by quickly, but there is some time left and I don’t know how I will be at that moment“, said.
Before the 2022 World Cup in Qatar he had said on air that it was his last chance to win it, however, already with the title in hand, He left the door open to try once again to defend the crown they won against France at the Lusail stadium.
“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 it was, both in France and 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,” he stated.
