Lionel Messi’s bomb about his future in the National Team: “I think it was my last World Cup”

Lionel Messi was interviewed by Chinese television and left a blunt sentence about his future in the Argentine national team: “I played my last World Cup and I don’t know what will happen in the future, but I don’t think I will participate in the next World Cup. I’d like to be there to see it, but I don’t think I’ll participate“, said.

“After achieving the World Cup that I was missing, I am satisfied and grateful for the career I had, and that is the most important thing for me.”, he added.

“This was my last World Cup. I’ll see how things go, but not in principle, I won’t go to the next“, clarified Messi in sports titans.

“Golden Ball? No, at this stage of my life it is no longer important to me. I always said it, the individual prizes are not what matters to me, but the collective ones. The most important prize at the moment is the World Cup. This is the biggest award for me, ”she maintained.

In this way, days before the friendlies of Lionel Scaloni’s team against Australia and Indonesia, the Rosario set off the alarms for the next World Cup, since his latest statements in this regard had left the door open for his presence in the football’s greatest event.

“As long as I’m well, I feel in good physical condition and I continue to enjoy myself, I’m going to do it, but it seems like a lot to me until the next World Cup,” Messi had said in February of this year.

Scaloni on the future of Messi

Even scaloni had nurtured the dream of having the captain of the Selection is Mexico, USA and Canada 2026.

“I think Messi can play in the next World Cup. It will depend a lot on what he wants, on what is happening over time and on whether he feels good. He is happy inside a court and the doors will always be open, for us he would be very good“, said the technician months ago.

Nevertheless, Messi He had not yet spoken after confirming that he would continue his career in the intermiami from United States once your contract with the paris saint germain Delaware France this June 30.

Messi participated in the 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018 editions without being able to win the title, while in Qatar 2022 he finally came out to lift the trophy that was missing from his formidable career.