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The unprecedented interview with Lionel Messi 16 years ago: a “normal kid” who dreamed of being “world champion”

In the last few hours, an iconic interview by the Rosario sports journalist went viral Marcelo “El Pelado” Ramirez on your show football and something else (Radio Del Plata) carried out in 2007 to Lionel Messiwho had just turned 20 and He took his first big steps at Barcelona and then he said that his dream was “to be world champion” and he described himself as “a normal kid”.

The most important of the interview with Lionel Messi in 2007

The journalist asked a young Lionel Messi if he missed Rosario, to which he replied: “Yes, I always said it, you know that whenever I can I come here because I love it” and added: “Over time a lot of things, but my thought is always to come to rosario. I am here and I do the same as my friends, my cousin, my brothers. I’m a normal kid, I want to enjoy what I’ve always done and what I’m going to continue doing.”

about they Memories of Newell’sLeo confessed which is the best: “A match with Central that we beat them. I have a lot of videos saved from when I was at Newell’s that I sometimes watch. I like to see when they show videos of me when I was little.”

On the other hand, Messi highlighted the importance of his parents in his career: “With the two of us we live many ugly things, out there I locked myself up crying alone in the room when we arrived in Barcelona, ​​​​or my dad too without me seeing him or thinking that I didn’t see him. We pretended that we were both good, but we were bad. My old man came to ask me what I wanted to do when we were bad, if I wanted to continue or we would go back and I wanted to continue and he stayed with me“.

Then the journalist raised a situation: “If you have to concentrate with Kun Agüero or with Oscar Ustari on Saturday afternoons, cumbia program or play station?”, and Leo replied: “With Agüero, both; with Ustari calmer, some mates, perhaps”.

Finally, about the great dream of his personal and professional life, Messi was blunt: “Obviously being world champion”.

Anna Edwards

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