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The diminutive genius talks us through the most iconic moments of his illustrious career, with journalists, teammates and opponents offering insight and analysis into the goals and games that will define his legacy.
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00:22No, the truth is that at that moment I didn't think of anything. I was enjoying playing in the Camp Nou,
00:31of being able to participate in the 1st of Barcelona. The truth is that I didn't think of the goal.
00:52The horror of everything is losing. No, the truth is that I don't know. The truth is that I can't agree with you.
01:10A film is a fantastic episode of the camp.
01:16I felt a little nervous and with a lot of desire.
01:41I had a lot of anxiety for being able to debut.
01:45To be able to debut because it was so expected for me.
01:51So I was a little impatient.
01:54I had been training with them for a long time.
01:58I had all the tranquility and the confidence needed
02:04of the whole team and the team to debut with tranquility.
02:10I remember that it was a very special day for me, for what it meant,
02:15for the dream that I was looking for.
02:18To be honest, there wasn't much of a buzz about Messi making his debut with the team.
02:30Because at the time it was just a kid that came in with number 30 with a shirt that was bigger than his size really.
02:35So when he actually came up into the first team to train and he had already jumping teams
02:43because he had been in the B-side not for long.
02:45But obviously, like I realized under the recommendation of some of the coaches in the academy
02:51that he was a special talent.
02:53So I decided to bring him into the first team.
02:55And at the end of that first training session, Ronaldinho approached somebody and said,
03:02that guy who just came in, 17 year old, is going to be better than me.
03:07This is Ronaldinho, who was the number one in the world at the time,
03:10but realized that there was something very, very special there.
03:13Well, it was a very fast game, where the archer left half of the road,
03:26where the player was just hitting me, like to throw it up.
03:32The truth is that everything was done to define it in that way.
03:35So it was a very nice moment.
03:37The way they celebrated it with me, the joy of everything, it was really nice.
03:48Ronaldinho looked after him and Ronaldinho wanted to give him the ball.
03:51And then, of course, Ronaldinho asked him to jump on top of him.
03:54And you could see this kid, this young Argentinian,
03:58jumping on the back of what he was at the time the best player in the world, Brazilian.
04:03So Brazilian and Argentinian, but they got on very well.
04:06And you could see in there that Ronaldinho had a special feeling,
04:10and still has, for Messi and vice versa as well.
04:13That relationship grew and that allowed, for good and bad reasons,
04:19allowed Messi to learn a lot.
04:21It was a very beautiful day for what it meant to be a goal in the World Cup.
04:36It was a very beautiful day for what it meant to be a goal in the World Cup.
04:45I think it was the second game.
04:48The first time I hadn't entered.
04:50I had to go for a while and make a goal.
04:52It was really nice.
04:54We played Serbia, one of the toughest defences in Europe at the time.
04:57I think he got to the World Cup with, I think, zero goal conceded.
05:01So that was a great game.
05:04There were some great goals, some great football.
05:06There was a goal that we all remember that we touched the ball 27 times.
05:10I think Gambiazzo scored.
05:12Messi started on the bench, I think, and then he came on later.
05:15And then he added to that festival.
05:17We smashed two pieces, one of the toughest defences in World Football.
05:21But then we thought, you know, we did okay.
05:25Maybe it is fine.
05:27Messi coming in, bringing something extra.
05:30But not at the time.
05:32He was a good player, a very good player, but not what he was about to come.
05:36I was like, I was like, I'm proud to come.
05:52To make these three goals in the Clásico was incredible.
05:56It was such a nice win, right?
05:58To make three goals against Madrid, because it's a game where it was seen and it was all
06:05in the world.
06:10Leo Messi changes the energy of everyone.
06:16When Leo Messi sees in his eyes,
06:20I know him, I know him since he was 16 years old,
06:23I look at his eyes and see in his eyes
06:26when he decides to win the games.
06:29And I see in the eyes of Messi
06:31when he is capable of creating in the field
06:35an absolute psychosis in the rival.
06:38He, like Ronaldo, the gorgito,
06:41provoca fear.
06:44And that fear inmovilizes the rival.
06:48It's one of the few futbolists
06:51who is capable of congeling the image.
06:54The rest of the defense
06:56doesn't move.
06:58It's like if they were congelados
07:00in Messi.
07:01Leo Messi provoca that effect
07:03and it provoca especially
07:04in the players of the Real Madrid.
07:17The truth is, I don't think about the game
07:20when I'm in the field.
07:23Therefore, the game is beginning to win.
07:24It's going to win.
07:25It's going to win.
07:26It's going to win.
07:27They opened it to the field,
07:30and we found the way to continue.
07:32And he's finished with it.
07:34It was the final goal.
07:35But if it was only to win the game,
07:36I couldn't imagine anything.
07:38What I always remember is a game in training, the boys from Barça B, we always mix the team.
07:46I was with a player from Barça B, and the Messi encarou him.
07:50And I was behind, against the goal.
07:52I said, don't enter, don't enter.
07:55Then the guy went back, and went back.
07:57I said, stop, stop.
07:58And when he went to shoot, we just did it.
08:00He just did it inside.
08:02The two on the floor, just did it.
08:04So, if you enter, he'll be dribbling.
08:06If you wait, he'll be dribbling too.
08:08So, it's almost impossible to mark him.
08:11The Messi, we've been fighting since the base category.
08:16When the Messi came to the futebol in 2005, the World Cup in Germany,
08:20we made the semi-final Brazil and Argentina.
08:22And he was the best player in the game.
08:26He was the best player in the competition.
08:28So, everyone saw that there was a phenomenon.
08:31Everyone was firm on him, he did a lot of pressure on him, and he didn't answer anything.
08:35He didn't complain.
08:36I've never seen him complain about a stronger point.
08:39This is the difference.
08:40Everyone knows that the more you beat, he'll come to the top.
08:43So, it's cool. I admire him.
08:45What was the best player of the World Cup?
09:01That championship, that trip was one of the most specials in my career, one of the most
09:08remembered, one of the most beautiful things about the Olympic Games, not only for being
09:14champions, we had the chance to achieve it, but also for the life that I had to live in
09:20the little while we were in the Olympic Games. I have a very beautiful memory of that championship.
09:27The Olympics were an outstanding day. We tried many times, we lost finals, and it was special.
09:35Bielsa convinced everybody that it was worth it. Leo, I think he had these issues with Barcelona
09:43about being released. He managed to get there. It was very important. It was an outstanding day.
09:49We won World Cups, but the Olympic Games is something that we really, really wanted.
09:53In fact, our neighbors, the Brazilians, they had to wait a bit longer than us, and they
09:57also waited for a long time. So the Olympic football, it's not a World Cup, but it's
10:01very, very important. It was something that Leo Messi was fundamental to achieve.
10:07But for anybody to doubt what he's been doing for Argentina, it's outrageous, and I think
10:17they probably will realize when he's gone. In a way, Argentina is living a golden era, because
10:23they've been in a World Cup final, they've been in two American Cup finals, and when you win or lose,
10:31it's just down to little details. It could have gone one way or the other. Some of them, of course,
10:36were goals in extra time or were wins at penalty shootouts. So to say that Leo Messi is not
10:45doing well with Argentina is basically not realizing that they are living a special moment.
10:50What kind of games have you ever been doing?
10:56Well, it can happen, right? They're partidos, they're different ways.
11:01I also played Madrid for four goals. It's a situation that they're given. Partidos that
11:08are partidos that, for one thing or another, they decide that way. And well, that time
11:13we had to win like that. It's special for everyone, for how they won in Bernabéu, because
11:19it was a new position for me in that game, because we had invented something new with me, and
11:32we would probably be talking about all of that.
11:36Well, for sure it's not the easiest player to stop. You know, he has so many qualities,
11:43and he can do so many different things that it's difficult to find out how to stop him.
11:49When I was in that match, I remember that, when we were in the match, we came back together
11:56and I said, have you seen the best game of Leo Messi? And he said, no, the best game
12:04will be the next game. But that day, you saw the faces of the people in Bernabéu, and
12:11everyone said, for God, why Messi is the Barça?
12:23Yes, obviously, in that moment, I thought and imagined that goal, and well, I understand
12:30that, and thanks to God, it came out and it came out and it was a very important goal, in
12:36every sense, for me, in the individual, for the team, for how it was put in the final.
12:42It was one of the most beautiful goals for me. In that moment, it seemed difficult to win
12:52with Ferdinand in front, but it fell right where I was, where I didn't have a mark, and it was
13:01right in the center.
13:04We always tried to defend ourselves well. We had a good team, we had the Ferdinand,
13:18we had the Vida, we had the Patricio, we had the experienced players in football, and we knew
13:23that we would be playing with a great quality team. At the same time, we had to defend ourselves,
13:27but we had players to attack, like Cristiano Ronaldo, like Tev, like Rune, like Disson Parque,
13:32like Giggs. So, for us, we were at the same level of Barcelona this year, because we had
13:37already won the English Championship, and we were also disputing the second Champions League
13:41of our team, so we were very confident.
13:51That was the moment of the game where we were above the Barcelona, where Tevys had
13:55lost a ball, where he had hit, he had hit, he had caught, we were above the Barcelona.
14:01At the same time, we had to take care of him, he ended up making a goal next year.
14:04The cruzament of Daniel Alves.
14:06The 2009 Champions League final started really in the Clásico previously, because just before
14:14the Clásico, Pepe Guardiola asked very late in the day, Leo Messi, to come to the training
14:22ground, Messi doesn't live far away from it, and showed him some clips, some videos, and
14:27said, you know that space here, in between the holding midfielders and the centre-backs,
14:31I want you to play there. That was the beginning of the false nine role that he played for Barcelona.
14:37Barcelona killed Real Madrid, but of course, it seems to me that Manchester United had not
14:42stood that game properly, because what happened in the Champions League final was that Messi
14:48started on the right-hand side, Eto'o was in the centre of the attack, and after ten minutes,
14:54having Cristiano Ronaldo had a chance for Manchester United that could have put them ahead,
14:59still 0-0, and Pepe Guardiola asked Eto'o and Messi to change places, so Eto'o went onto
15:06the right-hand side, Messi came inside, and then he became not just a false nine, but linked
15:12as well with the midfield. They created superiority in the midfield. Manchester United did not know
15:17how to deal with that, and basically that was the beginning of the victory of Barcelona.
15:29What was the most beautiful thing about Manchester United?
15:38It's something very beautiful, to be the goalkeeper of a so beautiful league, so important,
15:44where they have so many players of a lot of level in this league, and to be the most goalkeeper,
15:52it's a very good statistic.
15:58Well, I remember when he beat the record, I talked to Leo, you remember, Sarra was a mythic,
16:04he had an absolute record, and he told me, I don't play for the records, I play for
16:10to pass it well.
16:11This is a player that my generation has not seen before, I don't think we've ever seen before,
16:18and it's down to the consistency of his efforts, his performances, in big games as well.
16:24The fact that he's carried a team like Barcelona to win everything.
16:28And Barcelona have won with the Guardiola, with Tito Villanova, with Tata Martino, with
16:34Luis Enrique, and in the middle of all that, there was one thing coinciding, and that was Messi.
16:40So we're talking about the team that perhaps is one of the greatest in history, certainly one that has changed history,
16:46but again, he coincides that has Messi in it.
16:58The truth is that it was a long day, because everything was done.
17:03To be the 500 goal, the 3-2 goal in the last minute, a game where we, if we didn't win,
17:10we practically left us from the league.
17:14A goal that gave us hope to continue to dream about the league.
17:19It was a game that we deserved to win by the way it was done.
17:23And, well, winning in the last minute was very special for all the barcelonists.
17:29For me, because he is the best player in the world, for me, he managed to stay for 10 years
17:36at the same level.
17:38And his level is different from the rest.
17:42To be able to do that for 10 years, it's something very little or almost nothing.
17:48Then, he adds up to the quality that he has, and he's already transformed into the best in history.
17:56I think that the goal is not all in a game or a player.
18:15I think that the goal is not all in a game or in a player.
18:19I want to be a surreal player, a player out of the planet.
18:39One of the greatest in the last years, and he's so influential for Barcelona.
18:49It's impossible to do it simply.
18:54In the training, he does things that no one does, but in a way that he seems to be able to do.
19:03So, I think that's the difference.
19:05He's a huge fan.
19:06He's a wireless fan.
19:08He's a great fan.
19:09He's a great fan.
19:10I think about it too.
19:11Well...
19:12The most good thing about him was very great, because he's a kind of man who has been
19:13dispensed up for comments.
19:14What he does on the field, is an incredible player.
19:15He's a great player.
19:16He's a great player.
19:17What he does inside the field is inexplicable, a great player.
19:26Leo Messi is a source of happiness, happiness to the highest level.
19:31Here they say that Leo Messi is better than to do love with your partner,
19:35because the happiness that Leo Messi gives you is more prolonged.
19:39And that's what people feel here in Barcelona.
19:41This question about Messi being the greatest player ever,
19:49it's one that perhaps in ten years time will look back and say,
19:52why did we even ask?
20:11certifications and research.
20:17Now forsight and SEO.
20:22This has been our first time.
20:24Know what Dieu is playing.
20:26The Mostra.
20:29The Mostra.
20:31The Mostra.
20:32The Mostra.
20:35The Mostra.
20:36The Mostra.
20:37The Mostra.
20:38The Mostra.
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