“I’ve done this all of my life,” he told ESPN Argentina earlier this month. “I love playing ball. I enjoy the practices and the day-to-day, the games. Yeah, there’s a bit of fear that it’s all ending. It’s always there. It was a difficult step leaving Europe to come here [Miami].”
“The fact we won the World Cup helped, it helped a lot, to see things in another way,” Messi continued. “But I try not to think about it. I try to enjoy it. I do that more now because I’m aware that there’s not a lot of time left. So I have a good time with the club, being lucky having good teammates and friends at my side.
“I enjoy my time with the national team, where I also have good friends, too, and a lot. I enjoy those small details that I know I’ll miss when I stop playing.”
Messi’s fellow Argentinians know that his time donning the blue and white is winding down, yet they’re savouring potentially his last big international event.
“We Argentines are too melancholic, and we are already thinking about the day when he is gone while he’s still playing,” Argentine coach Lionel Scaloni told Telemundo Sports. “So, let’s enjoy it and we’ll see what happens tomorrow. I think the present is so important for the whole world, not only for Argentina, because in the end, Leo plays for everyone who likes soccer.”
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