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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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00:00Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!
00:10...contro Ronaldinho, este de primeras...
00:12...Leon Messi, que puede lograr el gol, el gol...
00:15¡Vaya golazo!
00:16Gooooooooooooooooooooool...
00:18De Leo Messi, la conexión interés estará con Ronaldinho...
00:23No, la verdad que in ese momento no pensaba nada, estaba disfrutando de...
00:27of playing in the Camp Nou,
00:31of being able to participate in the 1st of Barcelona.
00:35The truth is that they didn't start at the goal moment.
00:57Piano music plays
01:17Piano music plays
01:25Well, I felt a little nervous and with a lot of desire.
01:40I had a lot of anxiety for being able to debut,
01:46because it was the time that was so expected for me,
01:50so I was a little impatient.
01:53I had a lot of training with them,
01:57and I had all the tranquility and the confidence
02:02needed for the whole team and the team
02:06to be able to debut with tranquility.
02:09I remember that it was a very special day for me,
02:12for what it meant,
02:14for the dream I was looking for.
02:23To 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,
02:33with a shirt that was bigger than his size really.
02:35So when he actually came up into the first team to train,
02:39and he had already jumping teams, because 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, so I decided to bring him into the first team.
02:54And at the end of that first training session, Ronaldinho approached somebody and said,
03:01that guy who just came in, 17-year-old, is going to be better than me.
03:06This is Ronaldinho, who was the number one in the world at the time,
03:09but realized that there was something very, very special there.
03:12Well, it was a very fast game, where the archer left half of the road,
03:26where the ball was right to hit me, like to throw it up.
03:31The truth is that everything was done to define that way.
03:34It was a very beautiful moment,
03:37the way they celebrated it with me,
03:41and the joy of everything was really nice.
03:47Ronaldinho looked after him, and Ronaldinho wanted to give him the ball.
03:50And then, of course, Ronaldinho asked him to jump on top of him.
03:53And 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.
04:02So Brazilian and Argentinian, but they got on very well.
04:06And you could see in there that Ronaldinho had a special feeling, and still has.
04:10For Messi, and vice versa as well.
04:13That relationship grew, and that allowed, for good and bad reasons,
04:18allowed Messi to learn a lot.
04:20It was a very beautiful day for what it meant to be a goal in the world.
04:33It was a very beautiful day for what it meant to be a goal in the world.
04:45I think it was the second game.
04:47The first game I didn't have entered.
04:49I had to go for a while and make a goal, and it was really nice.
04:53We 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.
05:00So that was a great game.
05:03There were some great goals, some great football.
05:05There was a goal that we all remember, that we touched the ball 27 times.
05:09I think Cambiazo scored.
05:11Messi started on the bench, I think, and then he came on later.
05:14And then he added to that festival.
05:16We smashed to pieces, one of the toughest defences in world football.
05:21But then we thought, you know, we did okay.
05:25Maybe it is fine.
05:26Messi coming in, bringing something extra, but not at the time.
05:31He was a good player, a very good player, but not what he was about to come.
05:44He was a good player to win.
05:51Being able to win, having that three goals and the Clásico were incredible.
05:55Well, it was a nice thing to win.
05:57Being able to win three goals against Madrid, what it means.
06:01Because it's a game where everyone can see.
06:05What do you think about Leo Messi?
06:10Leo Messi really changes the energy of everyone.
06:15When Leo Messi sees in his eyes,
06:19I know him when he was 16 years old,
06:22I see him in his eyes when he decides to win the games.
06:28And I see him in his eyes when he is able to create
06:34an absolute psychosis in the rival.
06:37He, like Ronaldo, the gordito phenomenon,
06:41provoca fear.
06:44And that fear inmovilizes the rival.
06:47It's one of the few futbolists who is capable of
06:52congeling the image.
06:53It seems like the rest of the defense
06:55doesn't move.
06:57It seems like if they were congelados
06:58by the effect of Leo Messi.
07:00Leo Messi provoca that effect
07:02and it provoca especially in the players of the Real Madrid.
07:05a bit tired.
07:07Real度 do you think of?
07:12You have seen your first matchup of Worlds,
07:15within the league War decentralisation?
07:16Not, I don't think of anything yap,
07:19but whenever I put it just in the competition,
07:22I won't think about the game when I'm the World Cup's party.
07:24I shoot with the ground.
07:26They opened the space and found the way to keep going, and it ended up winning the goal.
07:34But it was a pity to receive the ball, I can't imagine anything.
07:38What I always remember was a game in my training.
07:41The boys from Barça B.
07:44We always mix the team together.
07:46I had a game in Barça B.
07:48The Messi hit him, and I was back against the goal.
07:51I said, don't enter, don't enter.
07:54Then the guy went back and went back.
07:56I said, stop, stop.
07:57And when he was shooting, we just did it like that.
08:00The two were on the floor.
08:03If you enter, he's going to dribble.
08:06If you hold it, he's going to dribble too.
08:08So it's almost impossible to mark him.
08:11The Messi I've been fighting since the base category.
08:15When the Messi came out for football in 2005,
08:18in the Netherlands, we made the semi-final Brazil and Argentina.
08:22And he was the best player in the game.
08:25He was the best player in the competition.
08:27Everyone saw that there was a phenomenon.
08:31Everyone goes firm on him, gives a lot of pressure on him,
08:33and he doesn't respond to anything.
08:35He doesn't complain.
08:36I've never seen him complain of a stronger point.
08:38This is the difference.
08:40Everyone knows that the more you beat, he'll come up.
08:43So it's cool.
08:44I admire him.
08:45Pewdiepie
08:49sized
09:02I think, that victory went with one of the most official in my career.
09:07It's the most beautiful and beautiful Citadelseks
09:11not only for being a champion, we had the chance to get it,
09:15but also for the life I had to live in the little while we were in the Olympics.
09:21I have a very beautiful memory of that championship.
09:26Well, the Olympics were an outstanding death.
09:29We tried many times, we lost finals, and it was special.
09:34Bielsa convinced everybody that it was worth it.
09:38Leo, I think he had these issues with Barcelona about being released.
09:43He managed to get there. It was very important.
09:47He was understanding that we won World Cups, but the Olympic Games
09:50is something that we really, really wanted.
09:52In fact, our neighbours, the Brazilians, they had to wait a bit longer than us,
09:56and they also waited for a long time.
09:58So the Olympic football, it's not a World Cup, but it's very, very important.
10:01It was something that Leo Messi was fundamental to achieve.
10:08But for anybody to doubt what he's been doing for Argentina, it's outrageous.
10:16And I think they probably will realise when he's gone.
10:18In a way, Argentina is living a golden era, because they've been in a World Cup final,
10:24they've been in two American Cup finals, and when you win or lose, it's just down to little details.
10:32He could have gone one way or the other. Some of them, of course, were goals in extra time,
10:39or were wins at penalty shootouts.
10:42So, to say that Leo Messi is not doing well with Argentina
10:46is basically not realising that they are living in a special moment.
10:49What is the most important part of the game?
10:52Well, it can happen, right?
10:57They are partitions, they get to different ways.
11:01I also played Madrid for four goals.
11:05They are circumstances that are given,
11:07partitions that, for one or another, they decide on that way.
11:11Well, for sure it's not the easiest player to stop.
11:39You know, he has so many qualities, and he can do so many different things
11:45that it's difficult to find out how to stop him.
11:49I was in that match, I remember, when we finished the match,
11:53we came back together in the flight, and I said,
11:57have you seen the best match of Leo Messi?
12:01He said, no, the best match will be the next match.
12:04But that day, you saw the faces of the people in the Bernadéu,
12:10and everyone said, oh God, why Messi is the Barça?
12:14Yes, obviously, in that moment, I thought, I imagined that goal,
12:28and, well, I understood, and thank God, it came out,
12:31and it was a very important goal in all the senses,
12:37for me, in the individual, for the team, for how it was set up in the final.
12:42The truth is that it was one of my goals most beautiful for me.
12:48The truth is that in that moment, it seemed difficult to win
12:52with Ferdinand in front, but, well, it fell right where I was,
12:58where I didn't have a match, and it went straight to the center for me.
13:11We always tried to defend ourselves well.
13:14We had a very good team, we defended ourselves well,
13:17we had Ferdinand, we had Vida, we had Patrice,
13:20we had players who were already experienced in football,
13:22and we knew that we would be playing with a great quality team.
13:25At the same time, we had to defend ourselves, but we had players to attack,
13:29like Cristiano Ronaldo, like Tev, like Rune, like Disson Park, like Giggs.
13:32So, for us, we were at the same level of Barcelona this year,
13:36because we had already won the English Championship,
13:38and we were also competing for the second Champions League,
13:41so we were so confused.
13:50That was the moment of the game where we were above the Barcelona,
13:53where Tevis had lost a ball, where he had crossed,
13:57he had shot, the goalie had caught,
13:59and we were in front of the Barcelona,
14:00and at the moment, we were taking care of him,
14:02and we ended up doing the goal in this.
14:03The cross of Daniel.
14:05The 2009 Champions League final started really in the Clásico previously,
14:12because just before the Clásico, Pepe Guardiola asked very late in the day,
14:19Leo Messi, to come to the training ground,
14:22Messi doesn't live far away from it,
14:24and showed him some clips, some videos, and said,
14:27you know that space here, in between the holding midfielders and the centre-backs,
14:31I want you to play there.
14:32That was the beginning of the false nine role that he played for Barcelona.
14:37Barcelona killed Real Madrid,
14:39but of course, it seems to me that Manchester United had not stood that game properly,
14:43because what happened in the Champions League final was that Messi started on the right-hand side,
14:49Eto'o was in the centre of the attack,
14:51and after ten minutes,
14:54Cristiano Ronaldo had a chance for Manchester United,
14:57that could have put them ahead,
14:59still nil-nil,
15:00and Pepe Guardiola asked Eto'o and Messi to change places,
15:04so Eto'o went on the right-hand side,
15:06Messi came inside,
15:08and then he became not just a false nine,
15:10but linked as well with the midfield.
15:12They created superiority in the midfield,
15:14Manchester United did not know how to deal with that,
15:18and basically that was the beginning of the victory of Barcelona.
15:23It's something very nice to be a goal of being a good player of a
15:29liga that's so wonderful,
15:31that they've been able to pass by so many players from a large level,
15:35too possibly to do to have some level of oberta.
15:37It's something really beautiful to be the player in a very beautiful league,
15:43so yo I bet I have gained a lot of barriers to be done,
15:45and can also be the player of that player in the league,
15:47and I would have taken the player in this league
15:49This is a player that my generation has not seen before, I don't think we've ever seen before and it's down to the
16:19consistency of his efforts, his performances in big games as well, the fact that he's carried a team like Barcelona to win everything and Barcelona won with Guardiola, with Tito Villanova, with Tata Martino, with Luis 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, but again, it coincides that has Messi in it.
16:50It was a long day because everything was done, being the goal 500, the 3-2 in the last minute, a game where if we didn't win, we practically didn't leave the league.
17:12It was a goal that gave us hope to continue to dream about the league.
17:18It was a game that we deserved to win by the way it was given, and well, winning in the last minute was very special for all the barcelonists.
17:29For me, because he's the best player in the world, he managed to stay for 10 years at the same level, and his level is different from the rest.
17:41To be able to do it for 10 years, it's something very little or almost nothing.
17:47After that, he adds up to the quality that he has and he's already transformed into the best of history.
18:10I think that the goal is not all in a game or in a player.
18:17I think he's a great player, a great player, a great player outside of the planet.
18:38One of the greatest in the last years, and he's so influential for Barcelona.
18:47One of the greatest in the last few years, he can do it simple.
18:50One of the greatest in the last few years, he can do it simple.
18:54In the training, he does things that no one does, but in a way that he doesn't even need to do it.
19:02So, I think that's the difference.
19:04My pleasure is all.
19:12What I'm going to suggest a lot about him will do.
19:14Because he's a guy who gives away comments his way.
19:17of the field is inexplicable, a great player.
19:25Leo Messi is a source of happiness.
19:28Happiness is the highest level.
19:30Here they say that Leo Messi is better
19:32than doing love with your partner.
19:34Because the happiness that Leo Messi gives you is more prolonged.
19:38And that's what people feel here in Barcelona.
19:41This question about Messi being the greatest player ever,
19:47it's one that perhaps in 10 years time we'll look back and say,
19:51why did we even ask?
20:11I'm out.
20:17I'm out.
20:27Bye.
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