The reality show of the future of Argentine Lionel Messi, the hub of cell phone, computer and television screens in recent days, will finally have its pause time. And is that this Wednesday The Rosario was officially presented as a player for Paris Saint-Germain, just a formality after the day before he arrived in France and the 30 shirt went viral with his name and his new colors. With the Barcelona chapter already closed, The star who in a few hours sold out the new PSG jersey was seen to be happy.
And he, who did not forget to remember that he comes for football glory in the shape of an orejona, also made it clear. “I came with enthusiasm and desire, my goal is to raise the Champions League again and I arrived at the ideal place to have a better chance of achieving it. PSG and I are looking for the same goals before separate and now together. Now the other teams are going to work hard to beat us and stay with the league. It will all be new for me, the opponents, the stadiums, but I’m very happy to be here. “
“I am very happy, my departure from Barcelona was hard, it was many years and change is difficult after so long. I have a lot of desire and enthusiasm,” Messi expanded on his feelings, in his first official exchange with the press as a player of the Parisian team, at the Parque de Los Príncipes stadium and accompanied by the president of his new club, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, and a massive international media presence.
The recent champion of America will be led by the Argentine Mauricio Pochettino and will have as companions his compatriots Leandro Paredes, Angel Di María and Mauro Icardi, plus internationally renowned stars such as the Brazilian Neymar, the French Kylian Mbappé and the Spanish Sergio Ramos, some of the names that join a galactic team. “I want to continue growing, taking new steps and winning titles. My arrival in Paris was crazy, something surprising, I am sure that I will enjoy this new stage of my career very much. I want to play as soon as possibleAlthough I was on vacation for a while and maybe I need a preseason, although that will be seen with the coaching staff, “said the former culé player.
Until always, culés
The joy of the Parisian fan is contracted with the sadness of the Catalan fan for his departure. On this, Messi stated: “Before coming I told the Barcelona fan that I was grateful for the love. I was there since I was a child, with many things lived, good and bad. They knew that I was going to a team with a chance to win the Champions League, I am a winner and PSG has the same goals of winning. If we play against Barcelona I hope it will be with people in the stadium, it would be nice but very rare to play at home again with another jersey. But in football it can happen. “
The sensations crowd Messi’s mind in the form of happiness and nostalgia since there have been days with moments of sadness: “In this last week it was all hard on the one hand, but fast and exciting, without leaving behind all that I experienced but excited about a new life, with my family, happy. All week we live strong feelings but we assimilate them, nobody was prepared for this and each one lived it as best they could.“.
The Champions is the obsession
“The Champions League is very difficult, PSG was close to having a great team and could not achieve it, it will be necessary to have a strong and united group, a good dressing room and also in football a little bit of luck is always needed,” he finally stressed. the star during his presentation as a new player for the French club. A day that only seemed less historic because in the hours before the formalization in person, a digital welcome had already been anticipated in a big way.
The reasons why the star chose PSG to continue his career were explained by the player, noting that “It is a club that has grown a lot, with a great squad, which has been very close to winning the Champions League for several yearsIt is very powerful at the club level and followed by a lot of people. My intention is that with the coaching staff and this team we can win titles and continue to grow. I came with enthusiasm and desire, my goal is to raise the Champions League again and get to the ideal place to have a better chance of getting it “.
The great objective of Messi and PSG is to achieve that elusive Champions League and the Rosario referred to that objective: “It’s not easy, you can have the best team in the world and not win it. Little details leave you out, The Champions League is very difficult, the team was close in recent years and with a great team they did not get it. It takes a united and strong group, a bit of luck, in this football the best does not always win. It’s a special competition, everyone wants it. “
Another Argentine in Paris
In the squad of the French club Messi has friends and many acquaintances who will make the adaptation stage easier: “I have friends and acquaintances in the dressing room, seeing the squad one gets excited and sees that there are possibilities of achieving the goal. PSG and I are looking for the same goals before separate and now together. I have a great relationship with Neymar, Ángel Di María and Leandro Paredes and with the rest I already had contacts at some point “.
The fans want Messi to play right now with the PSG jersey, but the Argentine will take his time for the long-awaited debut, as he emphasized: “I have been unemployed for more than a month, yesterday (Tuesday) I saw Pochettino and I will have to do a preseason, train well and start playing as soon as possible. I cannot give a date, everything will be according to how I train and it will be decided there. “
“I followed him to the tournament because of my friends at PSG,” said Rosario, about the French tournament, Ligue 1. It is a league that has grown a lot in recent years and for that PSG helped a lot. Now the other teams are going to work hard to beat us and stay with the league. It will all be new for me, the opponents, the stadiums, but I’m very happy to be here. “
Like a baby
The Parisian fans, who sold out his jersey in a few hours, long to see him with the ball under his left foot. The world, witnessing his departure from Barcelona, is now waiting for the next scene of the show that stole the eyes of football: to see him in action with PSG’s 30, surrounded by Neymar, Mbappé and the team of stars that will accompany him on his way to the Champions League.
Messi, without them realizing it, premiered this Wednesday on the lawn of the Parc des Princes. He did it playing with his sons Thiago, Mateo and Ciro. And it was Antonela, his partner, who captured that first adventure. The Argentine had warned him a while before: “I have the same enthusiasm and the same desire as when I was a baby. I love football. And I’m going to give up everything.”
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