With tranquility, Lionel Messi spoke in a press conference the day before the Copa America final. A beard on his face, calm in his voice, he was a long way away from the young boy who once made his debut with Argentina along with unfairly sent off 40 seconds later. A far cry from the boy who cried his eyes out when he got injured as an 19-year-old prodigy in a Barcelona shirt. He had matured. If it hadn’t been obvious before, it was then.
Earlier, he had taken to Instagram to voice his disappointment at the Argentine football federation, whose mishaps had forced the team to sit and wait around inside airplane just days before their biggest match of summer time. Clearly the grown up, matured Messi possesses a weight in the dressing room. Clearly he now involves a silent charisma and strength about him that inspires confidence and respect, and she knows it.
But in his prowess and greatness, with people about the world admiring him, he is, quite clearly, also very alone. With Argentina, he always has been. That has never been more evident than after the lost Copa America final in New Shirt.
After Argentina lost the match on penalties, Messi cried his eyes from the pitch. It’s a Messi exciting world of hadn’t seen next injury several back with Barcelona. The guy who sometimes tends to show no emotion, was devastated, sitting on the ground, tears in his look. His teammates tried to console him and wrap their arms around him, but he was beyond consolable. No one could really understand. She must have been angry with himself for missing a penalty in the shootout, he must have been upset that it was the third consecutive loss in a final, but most importantly, he own felt tired and alone.
Please note he made after the match spoke of just as exhaustion and solitude. “I’ve tried hard, I wanted this more than anything, but it wasn’t being. Four finals… It (national team) is not for our family. This is how I feel currently.”
The comments reveal a terrible lot for that man people ultimately know so little about. They reveal an awful lot with what winning with Argentina might have meant for him, plus the much it hurts don't have had the capacity to do it. Messi never describes how he feels. “We this, we that”, precisely what usually is released of his mouth. He never makes it about himself, even as soon as the rest with the world does.
This was one of this few times he was honest about how hurt he has. He doesn’t usually show may be. That’s why, the actual decisive penalty went in for Chile, we were treated to a Messi that will be the furthest possible from the young, innocent Messi, who once took the world by tempest. “I’ll retire when I stop enjoying football”, he was quoted saying in new. But with Argentina, one may probably count with one hand the period he truly enjoyed the site. International duty for him was about chasing a myth, trying to win your people whose acceptance he craved. It wasn’t he suddenly stopped enjoying international football after Sunday’s loss. Rather, he stopped believing that international football could ever bring him that enjoyment, despite all his efforts in the years.
The Argentina shirt is certainly a burden for him, more than anything. When called he'll never mention that out loud, he’ll go on about honor and pride of playing for his country prone to ask him about who's. But what he said on Sunday left no doubts.
“I think this ideal for almost all people. This is what a lot of of many people wanted”, he said, making reference to his retirement life. If ever we, the earth of football, have wondered whether Messi is an impenetrable fortress immune to criticism and abuse, Sunday gave us the solution. No, he isn’t.
The World Cup of 2010 would be a major dismay. Messi didn’t manage to get in the tournament and faced unthinkable criticism from his own countrymen after Argentina was trashed by Germany. The Copa America of 2011 was more. Played in Argentina, it was supposed to be the perfect chance for Messi november 23 a placed in his country’s heart. Instead, Messi was whistled at by his fellow Argentinians as the hosts were eliminated by Uruguay. “Pecho frío”, the course notes said. “He doesn’t even sing the anthem”.
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