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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04:08You could see in there that Ronaldinho had a special feeling, and still has, for Messi
04:12and vice versa as well.
04:13That relationship grew and that allowed, for good and bad reasons, allowed Messi to learn
04:20a lot.
04:38It was a very beautiful day, for what it meant to be a goal in the world, I think it was
04:46the second game, the first one I had not entered, I had to go for a while and make a goal, it
04:52was very nice.
04:54We played Serbia, one of the toughest defenses in Europe at the time, I think he got to the
04:58World Cup with zero goals considered, so that was a great game, there were some great goals,
05:05great football, there was a goal, we all remember that we touched the ball 27 times, I think
05:10Cambiazzo scored.
05:12Messi started on the bench, I think, and then he came on later, and then he added to that
05:16festival.
05:17We smashed two pieces, one of the toughest defenses in world football, but then we thought, you
05:24know, we did okay, maybe it is fine, Messi coming in, bringing something extra, but not
05:31at the time, he was a good player, a very good player, but not what he was about to come.
05:38habeas the same time.
05:51To be able to play those three goals in the Clásico game was incredible.
05:55Well, it seemed kind of beautiful to play three goals against Madrid, because it's a game
06:02where everyone is seen, and it's been on the whole.
06:05Leo Messi changes the energy of everyone. When Leo Messi sees in his eyes, I know him
06:21when he has 16 years old, I look at his eyes and see in his eyes when he decides to win
06:28and see in the eyes of Messi when he is capable of creating in the field an absolute psychosis
06:36in the rival. He, like Ronaldo, the gordito phenomenon, provoca fear, and that fear
06:46inmovilizes the rival. It is one of the few futbolists who is capable of
06:52freezing the image. It seems like the rest of the defense doesn't move. It seems like
06:58they are freezing by the effect of Leo Messi. Leo Messi provoca that effect, and it provoca
07:03especially in the players of Madrid.
07:05No, the truth is that I do not think about the game when I am in the field. It goes
07:23and it turns out, and it turns out, it turns out, it turns out, it turns out, it turns out
07:30and it turns out the path to continue, and it ends with the goal that it ends with. But
07:35it was a pity to receive the ball, I did not imagine anything.
07:38What I always remember is that a game in my training was the boys from Barça B.
07:43We always mix the team together. I was with a player from Barça B.
07:48The Messi encarated him, and I was behind, against the goal.
07:51I said, do not enter, do not enter. Then the guy went back and went back.
07:56I said, stop, stop, stop. And when he went to shoot, we took the camera
08:00and just did it like that. The two on the floor, just did it like that.
08:04So, if you enter, he will drive you. If you hold it, he will drive you too.
08:08So, it's almost impossible to mark him.
08:11The Messi has been fighting since the base category.
08:15When the Messi came back to the futebol in 2005, the World Cup in England,
08:20we did the semifinals, Brazil and Argentina.
08:22And he was the best player in the game.
08:25He was the best player in the competition.
08:27So, everyone saw that there was a phenomenon.
08:31Everyone goes firm on him, he does a lot of pressure on him, and he does nothing.
08:34He doesn't complain. I've never seen him complaining of a stronger point.
08:38This is the difference.
08:40Everyone knows that the more you beat him, he will come up.
08:43So, it's cool. I admire him.
08:45I know the fact that the world was the most special in my race.
08:48You've never seen that in the Olympics.
08:50Once you've watched the Olympics, this one was the most special,
08:52then you've learned in the Olympics.
08:53And a lot of times most of it's amazing and beautiful.
08:55How did itcritical matches your life in the Olympics
08:58What do you think of the Olympic Games?
09:01The truth is that this championship, this journey, was one of the most specials in my career,
09:06one of the most remembered, the most beautiful, for what the Olympic Games mean,
09:12not only for being a champion, we had the chance to get it,
09:15but also for the life that I had to live in the little time we were in the Olympic Games.
09:22I have a very beautiful memory of that championship.
09:26Well, the Olympics were an outstanding day.
09:29We tried many times, we lost finals, and it was special.
09:34Bielsa convinced everybody that it was worth it.
09:39Leo, I think he had these issues with Barcelona about being released.
09:45He managed to get there.
09:46It was very important.
09:47It was an outstanding day.
09:48We 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.
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.
10:02It was something that Leo Messi was fundamental to achieve.
10:06But for anybody to doubt what he's been doing for Argentina, it's outrageous.
10:17And I think they probably will realize when he's gone.
10:19In a way, Argentina is living a golden era because they've been in a World Cup final.
10:25They've been in two American Cup finals.
10:28And when you win or lose, it's just down to little details.
10:33It could have gone one way or the other.
10:35Some of them, of course, were goals in extra time or were wins at penalty shootouts.
10:42So to say that Leo Messi is not doing well with Argentina is basically not realizing that
10:48they are living in a special moment.
10:49What kind of games have you been doing for the first time?
10:56Well, it can happen, right?
10:58They're partidos, they're different ways.
11:01I also played Madrid for four goals.
11:05They're partidos that are partidos that, for one thing or another, they decide that way.
11:11And, well, that time we got to win.
11:16It's special for everyone, for how they won in the Bernabéu.
11:19Because it was a new position for me in that game.
11:27Because we had invented something new with me.
11:31And we probably would have been talking about all that.
11:35Well, 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 that it's difficult
11:47to find out how to stop him.
11:49I was in that game, I remember that when the match ended, we came back together in the
11:56game.
11:57And I said, have you seen the best game of Leo Messi?
12:01And he said, no, the best game will be the next game.
12:04But that day, that day, you saw the faces of the people in the Bernabéu.
12:10And they said, oh my God, why Messi is the Barça?
12:14Yes, obviously, in that moment, I thought, I imagined that goal, and, well, I entinted.
12:29And, thanks to God, it came out.
12:31It was a very important goal for me, for me, in the individual, for the team, for how it
12:41was put in the final.
12:42The truth is that it was one of my goals most beautiful for me.
12:48The truth is that at that moment, it seemed difficult to win with Ferdinand.
12:55But, well, it fell right where I was, where I didn't have a mark.
12:59And it went straight to the center, for what I was going to do.
13:03What do you think about the game?
13:10We always tried to defend ourselves well.
13:14We had a very good team that defended ourselves well.
13:17There was Ferdinand, there was Vida, there was Patrice.
13:20There were already experienced players 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,
13:27but we had players to attack like Cristiano Ronaldo, Tev,
13:30like 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 very confident.
13:50That was the moment of the game where we were at the top of the Barcelona,
13:53where Tevez had lost a ball, where he had hit,
13:58the goal he had hit, the goal he had hit,
13:59and we were playing with Barcelona.
14:00And at the moment of the time,
14:01we were taking care of him,
14:02and we ended up doing the goal next year.
14:03It was the cruzation of Daniel Alves.
14:05The 2009 Champions League final started really in the Clásico previously,
14:11because just before the Clásico,
14:14Pepe Guardiola asked very late in the day,
14:19Leo Messi, to come to the training ground.
14:21Messi doesn't live far away from it,
14:24and showed him some clips, some videos, and said,
14:26you 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.
14:36Barcelona killed Real Madrid,
14:39but of course, it seems to me that Manchester United
14:41had not stood that game properly,
14:43because what happened in the Champions League final
14:46was 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 onto 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,
15:17and basically that was the beginning of the victory.
15:20of Barcelona.
15:37It's something really nice to be the goalkeeper
15:41of such a beautiful and important league,
15:44with so many players of a great level
15:47and the same level for this league,
15:49and to be the best leader,
15:51it's a very good statistic.
15:56I remember when he beat the record,
15:59I talked to Leo,
16:00you remember?
16:01Sarra was a mythic,
16:03he had an absolute record,
16:05and he told me,
16:06I don't play for the records,
16:08I play to pass it well.
16:10This is a player that my generation have not seen before.
16:14I don't think we've ever seen before.
16:17And it's down to the consistency of his efforts,
16:20his performances in big games as well.
16:23The fact that he's carried a team like Barcelona to win everything.
16:27And Barcelona won with the Guardiola,
16:30with Tito Villanova,
16:32with Tata Martino,
16:33with Luis Enrique,
16:34and in the middle of all that,
16:36there was one thing coinciding,
16:38and that was Messi.
16:39So we're talking about the team that perhaps
16:41is one of the greatest in history,
16:43certainly one that has changed history,
16:45but again,
16:46he coincides
16:47that has Messi in it.
16:59It was a long day,
17:00because everything was done,
17:01right?
17:02To be the 500 goal,
17:04the 3-2 goal in the last minute,
17:06a game where if we didn't win,
17:08we practically didn't get away from the league.
17:13It was a goal that gave us hope
17:16to continue to dream about the league.
17:18It was a game that we deserved to win
17:20by the way it was done.
17:22And, well,
17:23winning in the last minute
17:24was very special for all the barcelonists.
17:29For me,
17:30because he's the best player in the world,
17:32he managed to be 10 years
17:35at the same level.
17:38And his level is different from the rest.
17:41And to be able to do it for 10 years
17:43is something of very little,
17:46or almost nothing.
17:48And then,
17:49together with the quality
17:50that he has,
17:52he's already transformed
17:54into the best of history.
17:56I think the goal is not all
18:12in a game,
18:14or in a player.
18:15and with the best.
18:16He's been a guy who is a player
18:17who is a player.
18:18He's an manager for a player,
18:19so he's a player.
18:20And he's just an actor.
18:21And he's as an actor.
18:22And he's a player,
18:23who is a player,
18:24who's a player.
18:25And he is as an actor.
18:26And he's an actor,
18:27and the only player.
18:28One of the greatest in the last years, and he's so influential for Barcelona.
18:46The impossible is to do it simple.
18:54In training, he does things that no one does, but in a way that he almost didn't do it.
19:02So I think that's the difference.
19:05The most important thing to talk about him will be a lot, because he's a guy who doesn't have comments.
19:16What he does inside the field is inexplicable.
19:19He's a great player.
19:25Leo Messi is a source of happiness.
19:27Happiness is higher.
19:29Here they say that Leo Messi is better than to do love with your partner.
19:34This question about Messi being the greatest player ever.
19:36It's one that perhaps in ten years time will look back and say, why didn't we even ask?
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20:08They just say beyond him, that's the end of
20:10this matter to us sally.
20:12Let's begin.
20:14Good morning, everyone.
20:16My God.
20:17See you soon.
20:20Take care of us.
20:22Great question.
20:24If we're here to continue to come back about him?
20:26Yes.
20:28Well, it doesn't even work.