The captain of the Argentine team spoke to a well-known radio program about all his experiences in the World Cup in Qatar and the historic title obtained
For iProfessional
01/30/2023 – 12:27 p.m.
40 days after winning the cup, Lionel Messi broke the silence in dialogue with Urbana Play 104.3 FM. The captain of the Argentine team referred to everything he had experienced in the Qatar World Cup 2022 and the historic consecration.
In a chat with Andy Kusnetzoff, the “Flea” began by saying that “The World Cup is heavy.” And he affirmed: “From that day everything changed for me. What I dreamed of and wanted throughout my career came true. And well, it came almost to the end.”
The night before the final
“Last night I was very calm, I slept very well. Throughout the World Cup I was very relaxedI felt that we were fine, that I was fine, that we were doing everything to make it happen. She had a very great tranquility. I was able to sleep well.”
“With Antonela we continue to do what we did throughout the World Cup: we talked before going to sleep but without touching much on the game or anything special. We did the same routine every day before the games.”
The “That’s it” dedicated to his family when the final ended
“It meant that this is it, that it was over. To her, to my family, after so much time, after so much suffering. Because there were times when I suffered a lot with the National Team. Many disappointments, lost finals. Always have been so close and that never happens. I had received a lot of criticism of all colors for a long time, and I know that my family suffered the same or more than me.”
“And well, winning the World Cup was like closing the cycle… we won the Copa América, the World Cup. That’s it. There’s nothing left, it’s over.”
Messi and the time to become world champion: “A lot of things go through his head and at the same time nothing”
The moment in which Montiel kicked the last penalty
“It’s hard to explain what I felt at that moment. A lot of things are going through your head and at the same time nothing, it’s like you’re gone, enjoying. You can’t believe we finally made it. You say that’s it, it’s over, it’s given to me. I got everything with the National Team, as I always dreamed of. It was closing my career in a unique way. I never imagined it would be this way, getting to that moment was the best.”
The moment that kissed the World Cup
“I saw her there and I couldn’t not do what I did. The Cup called me, it told me ‘come and grab me, now you can touch me’. I saw her there that she was shining in that beautiful stadium and I didn’t think about it.”
The celebrations in the country and the caravan in the micro
“It was beautiful to come back that way. It was a long trip. We arrived at Ezeiza and it was full of people. I slept for one or two hours, got up and there were already people at the Obelisk around five or six in the morning. I knew it was going to be crazy and it was. You see the happiness of the people, adults and children, it was inexplicable. The best of all was how the people behaved, because there were five million people and nothing happened, which could have happened because the people on the bridges were crazy, bursting. Someone who wanted to throw himself into the group… Crazy.”
The explanation of the “Topo Gigio” to Van Gaal
“I did not think, came out at the time. Yes, he knew everything they had commented before the game, what he (Van Gaal) had commented. Even some of my classmates were saying to me ‘Did you see what he said’, on purpose. And well, when all that ends I don’t like what I did, I don’t like the ‘go there’ and all that. One reacts as one reacts, but nothing was planned. It was giving I don’t like to leave that image but they are things that happen too”.
