Lionel Messi spoke about his failed resignation from the Argentine National Team: “It makes me happy to have regretted it”

Minutes after the defeat of the Argentine national team against chile in the 2016 copa america final, Lionel Messi full of anger and frustration said: “It’s incredible but I don’t get it”. It was the third final lost in three years and he added: “The National Team is over for me.”

Almost seven years after the “resignation” in the United States, The flea revived the episode and valued the present: “Although there were moments in which I had a very bad time and even I even said that I was not going to play for the National Team anymore and I had many doubtsobviously me It makes me happy to have regretted what I said, to have returned to the National Team and to have achieved all this“.

Testimony is part of “High in the Sky”the documentary that premiered adidas six months after the consecration of Argentina in Qatar.

“I think that never having given up after so many blows that I had had is more important than all the rest”added the captain, who has 103 goals with the Argentine National Team.

Messi not only returned to play for the National Team a little over a month later, but also won everything. First was the America’s Cup 2021then the very final and later the qatar World Cup, the ultimate goal, as the icing on the cake.

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