Lionel Messi Documentary I The Moments That Made Me I FourFourTwo Films
The diminutive genius talks us through the most iconic moments of his illustrious career, with journalists, teammates and opponents offering insight and analysis into the goals and games that will define his legacy.
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01:46 because the moment I was waiting for had arrived, so I was a bit impatient.
01:53 I had been training with them for a long time, so I was already calm and confident enough to debut.
02:09 I remember it was a very special day for me because of what it meant, the dream I had.
02:18 To be honest, there wasn't much of a buzz about Messi making his debut with the team,
02:30 because at the time it was just a kid that came in with number 30, with a shirt that was bigger than his size really.
02:35 So when he actually came up into the first team to train, and he had already jumped teams,
02:43 because he had been in the B-side not for long, but obviously Rijkaard realised,
02:48 under the recommendation of some of the coaches in the academy, that he was a special talent.
02:53 So they decided to bring him into the first team, and at the end of that first training session,
02:58 Ronaldinho approached somebody and said, "That guy who just came in, 17 years old, is going to be better than me."
03:06 This is Ronaldinho, who was the number one in the world at the time,
03:09 but realised that there was something very, very special there.
03:12 What was it like to play with the team?
03:20 It was a very quick game, where the goalkeeper was halfway through the way,
03:26 and the ball was just about to hit the post.
03:31 Everything was given to define the game in that way.
03:35 It was a very nice moment, and the way they celebrated it with me,
03:41 and the joy of everyone, it was very nice.
03:44 Ronaldinho looked after him, and Ronaldinho wanted to give him the ball.
03:51 And then of course Ronaldinho asked him to jump on top of him.
03:54 And you could see this kid, this young Argentinian, jumping on the back of what was at the time
04:01 the best player in the world, Brazilian.
04:03 So Brazilian and Argentinian, but they got on very well.
04:06 And you could see in there that Ronaldinho had a special feeling, and still has,
04:11 for Messi, and vice versa as well.
04:13 That relationship grew, and that allowed, for good and bad reasons,
04:19 allowed Messi to learn a lot.
04:38 It was a beautiful day, for what it meant to score a goal in the World Cup.
04:45 I think it was the second game, the first one hadn't started yet.
04:50 I had to wait a while to score a goal, and it was very nice.
04:53 We played Serbia, one of the toughest defences in Europe at the time.
04:57 I think he got to the World Cup with, I think, zero goals conceded.
05:01 So that was a great game.
05:04 There were some great goals, some great football.
05:06 There was a goal that we all remember, and we touched the ball 27 times.
05:10 I think it can be a score.
05:11 Messi started on the bench, I think, and then he came on later.
05:14 And then he added to that festival.
05:17 We smashed two pieces, one of the toughest defences in world football.
05:22 But then we thought, we did OK, maybe it is fine.
05:27 Messi coming in, bringing something extra, but not at the time.
05:32 He was a good player, a very good player, but not what was about to come.
05:51 To score those three goals, that classic, was incredible.
05:55 It was beautiful to score three goals against Madrid,
06:00 for what it means, because it is a game where you see and follow everyone.
06:05 Leo Messi really changes the mood of the team, of everyone.
06:15 When you see Leo Messi in his eyes, I know how to see him.
06:20 I have known him since I was 15 years old.
06:22 I look him in the eyes and I see in his eyes when he decides to win the games.
06:29 And I see in Messi's eyes when he is able to create in the field
06:34 an absolute psychosis in the opponent.
06:38 He, like Ronaldo did, the big guy, the phenomenon,
06:41 causes fear, causes fear.
06:45 And that fear immobilizes the opponent.
06:48 He is one of the few footballers who is able to freeze the image.
06:53 It seems that the rest of the defenders don't move.
06:57 It seems as if they were frozen by the effect of Leo Messi.
07:00 Leo Messi causes that effect,
07:02 and it causes it especially in Real Madrid players.
07:16 I didn't think about anything.
07:18 I don't think about the play when I'm in a field.
07:22 You start giving and you keep giving.
07:26 You start opening up space and you find the path to follow.
07:31 And you end up with the goal you ended up with.
07:34 But it was a shame to receive the ball.
07:36 I didn't imagine anything.
07:38 What I remember is a play in training.
07:41 The boys from Barça were there.
07:43 We always mix the teams.
07:45 I was with a Barça player and I knew Messi was facing him.
07:49 And I was behind him, against the goal.
07:51 I said, "Don't go in, don't go in."
07:54 And the boy went back and back.
07:56 I said, "Stop, stop."
07:57 And when he kicked, we both kicked.
07:59 We both kicked in, both on the floor,
08:02 and I scored a goal.
08:04 If you go in, he'll take you out.
08:06 If you hold on, he'll take you out too.
08:08 So it's almost impossible to score.
08:11 I've seen Messi since the starting line-up.
08:15 When Messi first appeared in football in 2005,
08:18 in the World Cup in Holland.
08:20 We played the semifinal between Brazil and Argentina.
08:22 He was the best player in the match.
08:25 He was the best player in the competition.
08:27 Everyone saw that he was a phenomenon.
08:31 Everyone was going for him.
08:33 He was a hard-hitter and he didn't respond.
08:35 I've never seen him complain about not having a stronger attack.
08:39 That's the difference.
08:41 Everyone knows that the more you hit, the higher he goes.
08:43 So it's cool. I admire him.
08:45 The truth is that this championship, this trip,
09:04 was one of the most special in my career.
09:07 It's the most memorable, the most beautiful.
09:09 Because of what the Olympic Games mean.
09:11 Not only because we were champions,
09:14 but because we were lucky enough to win it.
09:16 Because of the experience I had
09:19 in the little time we spent in the Olympic Village.
09:22 I have very nice memories of that championship.
09:26 The Olympics were an outstanding day.
09:29 We tried many times, we lost finals.
09:32 It was special.
09:34 Bielsa convinced everybody that it was worth it.
09:38 Leo had issues with Barcelona about being released.
09:44 He managed to get there.
09:46 It was very important.
09:48 It was an outstanding day.
09:49 We won the World Cup, but the Olympic Games
09:51 is something that we really, really wanted.
09:53 In fact, our neighbours, the Brazilians,
09:55 had to wait a bit longer than us.
09:56 And they also waited for a long time.
09:58 So the Olympic football is not a World Cup,
10:01 but it's very, very important.
10:02 It was something that Leo Messi
10:05 was fundamental to achieve.
10:07 But for anybody to doubt what he's been doing for Argentina,
10:15 it's outrageous.
10:17 And I think they probably will realise when he's gone.
10:19 In a way, Argentina is living a golden era.
10:23 Because they've been in a World Cup final,
10:25 they've been in two American Cup finals,
10:28 and when you win or lose,
10:31 it's just down to little details.
10:33 He could have gone one way or the other.
10:35 Some of them, of course, were goals in extra time
10:39 or were wins at penalty shoot-outs.
10:42 So to say that Leo Messi is not doing well with Argentina
10:46 is basically not realising that they are living a special moment.
10:51 What do you think about the match against Real Madrid?
10:56 Well, it happens.
10:58 They're matches, they're played in different ways.
11:01 I also had to go to Madrid and lose by four goals.
11:05 These are circumstances that happen in matches,
11:08 that one thing or another, they're decided in that way.
11:11 And well, that time we didn't have to win like that.
11:16 It's special for everyone,
11:18 how we won at the Bernabeu,
11:20 because it was a new position for me in that match.
11:26 Because we had invented something new with me,
11:31 and we would surely be talking about all that.
11:35 Well, for sure, it's not the easiest player to stop.
11:39 You know, he has so many qualities,
11:42 and he can do so many different things
11:45 that it's difficult to find out how to stop him.
11:49 I remember that match, when the match was over,
11:53 we were on the plane together,
11:56 and I said to him,
11:58 "I've seen the best game of Leo Messi."
12:01 And he said, "No, the best game will be the next one."
12:05 But that day, you could see the faces of the people at the Bernabeu,
12:10 and everyone was saying, "For God's sake, why Messi at Barça?"
12:15 [Music]
12:23 Yes, obviously, at that moment, I thought and imagined that goal,
12:28 and well, I understood it, and thank God it came out.
12:32 It was a very important goal in every way,
12:37 for me, individually, for the team,
12:40 for how we got to the final.
12:42 The truth is that it was one of my most beautiful goals.
12:48 The truth is that at that moment, it seemed difficult
12:51 to win with my head, with Ferdinand in front,
12:55 but well, it fell right where I was,
12:58 where there was no mark, and it was just the right centre for it to fall.
13:03 [Music]
13:10 We always tried to defend ourselves well.
13:14 We had a very good team that defended itself very well.
13:17 We had Ferdinand, we had Vida, we had Patrisson.
13:20 There were players who were already experienced in football,
13:22 and we knew we would be playing with a great quality team.
13:25 At the same time, we had to defend ourselves,
13:27 but we had players to attack, like Cristiano Ronaldo, like Tev, like Rooney,
13:31 like Edson Parque, like Giggs.
13:33 So, for us, we were at the same level as Barcelona this year,
13:36 because we had already won the English Championship,
13:38 and we were also playing our second Champions League,
13:41 so we were quite confident.
13:43 [Music]
13:50 That was the moment of the game when we were on top of Barcelona,
13:54 where Tev had missed a ball, where he had crossed,
13:57 he had kicked, the goalkeeper had caught it,
13:59 we were on top of Barcelona.
14:01 At the moment, a careless mistake ended up scoring a goal in this one.
14:04 Daniel Alves' cross.
14:06 The 2009 Champions League final started really in the Clásico, previously,
14:12 because just before the Clásico, Tev Guardiola asked,
14:18 very late in the day, Leo Messi to come to the training ground,
14:23 Messi doesn't live far away from it,
14:25 and showed him some clips, some videos, and said,
14:27 "You know that space here, in between the whole of the midfielders and the centre-backs,
14:31 I want you to play there."
14:33 That was the beginning of the false nine role that he played for Barcelona.
14:37 Barcelona killed Real Madrid,
14:40 but of course, it seems to me that Manchester United had not stood that game properly,
14:44 because what happened in the Champions League final
14:47 was that Messi started on the right-hand side,
14:50 Eto'o was in the centre of the attack,
14:52 and after 10 minutes, having Cristiano Ronaldo had a chance for Manchester United,
14:58 that could have put them ahead, still 0-0,
15:01 and Tev Guardiola asked Eto'o and Messi to change places.
15:05 So Eto'o went on the right-hand side, Messi came inside,
15:08 and then he became not just a false nine, but linked as well with the midfield.
15:13 They created superiority in the midfield,
15:15 Manchester United did not know how to deal with that,
15:18 and basically that was the beginning of the victory of Barcelona.
15:24 What is it like to be the winner of a league that is so beautiful, so important,
15:29 that so many players from so many different levels have played for this league,
15:34 and to be the top scorer,
15:37 the truth is that it is a great feeling.
15:40 I think that it is a great feeling,
15:43 because it is a great feeling to be able to be the winner of a league
15:47 that is so beautiful, so important,
15:50 and to be the top scorer,
15:53 the truth is that it is a very good statistic.
15:57 I remember when I broke the record,
16:00 I was talking to Leo, do you remember?
16:02 Zara was a legend, he had an absolute record,
16:06 and he told me, "I don't play for records,
16:09 I play to have a good time."
16:11 This is a player that my generation have not seen before,
16:15 I don't think we've ever seen before,
16:18 and it's down to the consistency of his efforts,
16:21 his performances in big games as well,
16:24 the fact that he's carried a team like Barcelona to win everything,
16:28 and Barcelona have won with Pep Guardiola,
16:31 with Tito Villanova, with Tata Martino, with Luis Enrique,
16:35 and in the middle of all that,
16:37 there was one thing coinciding, and that was Messi.
16:40 So we're talking about the team that perhaps is one of the greatest in history,
16:44 certainly one that has changed history,
16:46 but again, it coincides that has Messi in it.
16:50 It was a round day, because of how everything went.
17:02 We scored the goal, the 3-2 in the last minute,
17:06 a game where if we didn't win,
17:09 we would practically say goodbye to LaLiga.
17:13 A goal that gave us hope to continue dreaming of LaLiga.
17:18 A game that we deserved to win, because of how it went,
17:22 and winning in the last minute was very special for all Barcelona fans.
17:28 For me, because he's the best player in the world,
17:32 he managed to be at the same level for 10 years,
17:37 and his level is different from the rest.
17:41 To be able to do that in 10 years,
17:44 is something very few or almost nonexistent.
17:48 Then you add the quality he has,
17:52 and you become the best in history.
18:10 I think I win everything in a game or in a player.
18:15 I think Messi is a surreal player, a player from another planet.
18:38 He's one of the greatest in the last years,
18:42 and he's so influential for Barcelona.
18:46 ImpossÃvel can do simple things.
18:55 In training, he does things that no one else does,
18:59 but in a way that he hardly ever tries to do.
19:03 I think that's what makes him different.
19:07 Messi is a great player.
19:10 The least I can say about him is that he's a man who doesn't comment.
19:17 He's an inexplicable player.
19:20 Leo Messi is a source of happiness,
19:28 happiness to a higher degree.
19:30 Here they say that Leo Messi is better than making love with your partner,
19:34 because he gives you more happiness.
19:38 That's what people here in Barcelona feel.
19:41 This question about Messi being the greatest player ever,
19:49 it's one that perhaps in 10 years' time we'll look back and say,
19:52 "Why did we even ask?"
19:55 Messi is the greatest player ever.
19:59 Messi is the greatest player ever.
20:03 Messi is the greatest player ever.
20:07 Messi is the greatest player ever.
20:10 Messi is the greatest player ever.
20:14 Messi is the greatest player ever.
20:18 Messi is the greatest player ever.
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20:25 (upbeat music)