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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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00:00No, no.
00:02No, no!
00:03No, no, no!
00:05No, no!
00:07No, no!
00:11Goal contra Ronaldinho, este de primeras,
00:13Igor Messi que puede lograr el gol,
00:15gol, gol, gol, gol!
00:17¡Vaya gola!
00:19¡Oooool de Leo Messi!
00:21La conexión interés traer con Ronaldinho.
00:24No, la verdad es que en ese momento no pensaba nada.
00:26to play in the Camp Nou, to be able to participate in the 1st of Barcelona.
00:36The truth is that they didn't start at the goal moment.
00:56The truth is that they didn't start at the goal, but they didn't start at the goal.
01:18Well, I felt a little nervous and with a lot of fun.
01:40I had a lot of desire, I had a lot of anxiety for being able to debut,
01:48because it was so expected for me, so I was a little impatient.
01:54I had been playing with them for a long time,
01:58and I had all the tranquility and the confidence necessary
02:04of the team and the team to be able to debut with tranquility.
02:09But I remember that it was a very special day for me,
02:13for what it meant, for the dream I was looking for.
02:25To be honest, there wasn't much of a buzz about Messi making his debut with the team,
02:30because at the time it was just a kid that came in with number 30
02:33with a shirt that was bigger than his size, really.
02:35So when he actually came up into the first team to train,
02:40and he had already jumping teams because he had been in the B-side not for long,
02:45but obviously, like I realized under the recommendation of some of the coaches in the academy
02:51that he was a special talent, so I decided to bring him into the first team.
02:54And at the end of that first training session, Ronaldinho approached somebody and said,
03:02that guy who just come in, 17-year-old, is going to be better than me.
03:06This is Ronaldinho, who was the number one in the world at the time,
03:09but realized that there was something very, very special there.
03:13It was a very fast game, where the archer stays at the middle of the road,
03:26and where the player is just going to pick up,
03:28like to throw it up.
03:32It was a very nice moment, and the way they celebrated it with me,
03:41and the joy of everyone, it was really nice.
03:44Ronaldinho looked after him, and Ronaldinho wanted to give him the ball.
03:51And then, of course, Ronaldinho asked him to jump on top of him.
03:54And you could see this kid, this young Argentinian,
03:58jumping on the back of what he was at the time, the best player in the world, Brazilian.
04:03So Brazilian and Argentinian, but they got on very well.
04:06And you could see in there that Ronaldinho had a special feeling, and still has,
04:11for Messi and vice versa as well.
04:13That relationship grew, and that allowed, for good and bad reasons,
04:19allowed Messi to learn a lot.
04:21It was a very beautiful day, for what it meant to be a goal in the World Cup.
04:31It was a very beautiful day, for what it meant to be a goal in the World Cup.
04:45I think it was the second game.
04:48The first game I didn't have entered.
04:50I had to go for a moment to go for a goal, and it was really nice.
04:54We played Serbia, one of the toughest defences in Europe at the time.
04:57I think he got to the World Cup with, I think, zero goal conceded.
05:01So that was a great game.
05:04There were some great goals, some great football.
05:06There was a goal that we all remember that we touched the ball 27 times.
05:10I think Gambiazzo scored.
05:12Messi started on the bench, I think, and then he came on later.
05:15And then he added to that festival.
05:17We smashed two pieces, one of the toughest defences in World Football.
05:21But then we thought, you know, we did okay, maybe it is fine.
05:27Messi coming in, bringing something extra, but not at the time.
05:32He was a good player, a very good player, but not what he was about to come.
05:51To make those three goals, the Classic, it was incredible.
05:56Well, it was beautiful to make three goals against Madrid,
06:01for what it means, because it's a game where you can see and follow everyone.
06:11Messi really changes the energy of the team, of everyone.
06:16When Leo Messi sees in his eyes, I know him, I know him since he was 16 years old,
06:23I see him in his eyes when he decides to win the game.
06:29And I see him in his eyes when Messi is able to create in the field
06:35an absolute psychosis in the rival.
06:38He, like Ronaldo did the gordon, the phenomenon,
06:41provoca fear.
06:43And that fear inmovilizes the rival.
06:48It's one of the few futbolists who is capable of congeling the image.
06:53It seems like the rest of the defense, they don't move.
06:57It seems like if they were congelados by the effect of Leo Messi.
07:00Leo Messi provoca that effect, and it provoca especially in the players of Madrid.
07:05I don't think of anything, I don't think of the game when I'm in the field.
07:23And it returns to the game, but it turns out and stops it.
07:26It's right.
07:27It's like this one, it has to go.
07:29It's like...
07:30It's like opening the space.
07:31And it turns out to the goal.
07:32And it's like the goal.
07:33It's like the way I've managed to get the ball.
07:35I can't imagine anything.
07:36If you can't get the ball, you can't imagine.
08:06If you can't get the ball, you'll be able to get the ball.
08:08If you can't get the ball, you'll be able to get the ball.
08:09So it's almost impossible to mark it.
08:11We've been facing the ball since the base category.
08:16When the Messi came to the futebol in 2005,
08:19the world world in Holanda, we made the semifinals Brazil and Argentina.
08:23He was the best player in the game,
08:26the best player in the competition.
08:28Everyone saw that there was a phenomenon.
08:31Everyone goes firm, gives a lot of pressure on him
08:34and he doesn't respond to anything.
08:36He doesn't complain.
08:37I've never seen him complain of a stronger point.
08:39This is the difference.
08:41Everyone knows that the more you hit the ball,
08:42he'll come up.
08:43So it's cool.
08:44I admire him.
08:45It's the best player in the championship.
08:46And they're kind of like,
08:47a lot of people are going to track the ball and you're going to try it.
08:48So it's a big one that's good at all.
08:49We don't know how to be a hot ball.
08:51Y'at's to be able to catch it.
08:52But it's a big one that I have to fight for.
08:53So we're at the moment.
08:54You can't probably just see a lot of people.
08:55I really need a lot of people.
08:56That is what I have to do in the finals.
08:57And we do.
08:58I do.
08:59I really need a lot of people.
09:00I'm going to have to do that.
09:02That is what I do in evergreen.
09:03There's a lot of people.
09:04I'm going to have to do.
09:05That little bit.
09:06Yeah.
09:07That's theВОs.
09:08I remember the most beautiful thing about the Olympic Games, not only for being a champion,
09:14we had the chance to get it, but also for the life I had to live in the little time we
09:20were in the Olympic Games.
09:22I have a very beautiful memory of that championship.
09:26Well, the Olympics were an outstanding death.
09:29We tried many times, we lost finals and it was special.
09:35Bielsa convinced everybody that it was worth it.
09:39Leo, I think he had these issues with Barcelona about being released.
09:45He managed to get there.
09:46It was very important.
09:48He was understanding that we won World Cups by the Olympic Games.
09:51It's something that we really, really wanted.
09:53In fact, our neighbours, the Brazilians, they had to wait a bit longer than us and they
09:57also waited for a long time.
09:58So the Olympic football, it's not a World Cup, but it's very, very important.
10:02That was something that Leo Messi was fundamental to achieve.
10:11But for anybody to doubt what he's been doing for Argentina, it's outrageous.
10:17And I think they probably will realise when he's gone.
10:19In a way, Argentina is living a golden era because they've been in a World Cup final.
10:25They've been in two American Cup finals and when you win or lose, it's just down to little
10:33details.
10:34It could have gone one way or the other.
10:35Some of them, of course, were goals in extra time or were wins at penalty shootouts.
10:43So, to say that Leo Messi is not doing well with Argentina is basically not realising
10:48that they are living in a special moment.
10:50Well, it can happen.
10:59It's a lot of games, it's a lot of different ways.
11:01It's a lot of games, it's a lot of games.
11:16It was special for everyone, for how it won in Bernabéu, because it had been a new position for me in that game.
11:26We had invented something new with him, and we would probably be talking about all of that.
11:35Well, for sure it's not the easiest player to stop.
11:39You know, he has so many qualities, and he can do so many different things that it's difficult to find out how to stop him.
11:48I was in that match, I remember that when we ended the match, we came back together in the flight.
11:56And I said, have you seen the best match of Leo Messi?
12:01He said, no, the best match will be the next match.
12:04But that day, you saw the faces of the people in Bernabéu, and everyone said, oh my God, why Messi is the Barça?
12:14Yes, obviously, in that moment, I thought and imagined that goal, and well, I didn't think about it.
12:29And thanks to God, it was a very important goal for me, in the individual, for the team, for how it was put in the final.
12:42It was one of the most beautiful goals for me.
12:48It was difficult to win with Ferdinand in front of the team, but it fell right where I was, where I didn't have a mark.
12:59And it was right in the center to win.
13:03What was the best match of Leo Messi?
13:10We always tried to defend ourselves well.
13:14We had a very good team, we defended ourselves well.
13:17We had Ferdinand, we had Vida, we had Patrice.
13:20We were already experienced players in football, and we knew that we would be playing with a great quality team.
13:25At the same time, we had to defend ourselves, but we had players to attack like Cristiano Ronaldo,
13:30like Rune, like Son Park, like Giggs.
13:33So, for us, we were at the same level of Barcelona this year, because we had already won the English Championship,
13:37and we were also disputing the second Champions League of our team.
13:41So, we were very confident.
13:43That was the moment of the game, where we were at the top of the Barcelona.
13:53Where Tevis had lost a ball, where he had crossed, he had shot, he had caught, he had caught.
13:59We were at the top of the Barcelona.
14:00At the moment, we were careful, and we ended up making a goal.
14:03Daniel's crossing.
14:04The final Champions League of the 2009
14:07the Champions League final started really in the Clásico previously, because just before the Clásico,
14:14Pep Guardiola asked very late in the day, Leo Messi, to come to the training ground.
14:21Messi doesn't live far away from it, and showed him some clips, some videos, and said,
14:27You know that space here, in between the holding midfielders and the centre-backs,
14:31I want you to play there.
14:32That was the beginning of the false nine role that he played for Barcelona.
14:36Barcelona killed Real Madrid, but of course, it seems to me that Manchester United
14:41had not stood that game properly, because what happened in the Champions League final
14:46was that Messi started on the right-hand side, Eto'o was in the centre of the attack,
14:51and after ten minutes, having Cristiano Ronaldo had a chance for Manchester United,
14:57that could have put them ahead, still nil-nil, and Pep Guardiola asked Eto'o and Messi
15:03to change places, so Eto'o went onto the right-hand side, Messi came inside,
15:08and then he became not just a false nine, but linked as well with the midfield.
15:12They created superiority in the midfield.
15:15Manchester United did not know how to deal with that, and basically that was the beginning
15:20of the victory of Barcelona.
15:23Boric of Barcelona.
15:37It's a really nice being the
15:45so many players of a lot of levels in this league and being the best player is a very good statistic.
15:57I remember when he beat the record, I talked to Leo, he was a mythic, he had an absolute record,
16:06and he told me, I don't play for the records, I play to pass it well.
16:11This is a player that my generation have not seen before, I don't think we've ever seen before,
16:17and it's down to the consistency of his efforts, his performances in big games as well,
16:23the fact that he's carried a team like Barcelona to win everything,
16:28and Barcelona have won with Pep Guardiola, with Tito Villanova, with Tata Martino, with Luis Enrique,
16:34and in the middle of all that, there was one thing coinciding, and that was Messi.
16:40So we're talking about the team that perhaps is one of the greatest in history, certainly one that has changed history,
16:46but again, it coincides that has Messi in it.
16:49The truth is that it was a long day, because everything was done, right?
16:59The truth is that it was a long day, because everything was done,
17:02being the 500 goal, the 3-2 goal in the last minute,
17:06a game where we, if we didn't win, we practically left us from the league,
17:13a goal that gave us hope to continue to dream about the league,
17:18a game that we deserved to win by how it was done, and well,
17:22winning in the last minute was very special for all the barcelonists.
17:29For me, because he's the best player in the world,
17:32it's, for me, he managed to stay for 10 years at the same level,
17:38and his level is different from the rest.
17:41To be able to do it for 10 years, it's something very little or almost nothing.
17:48After that, he joins the quality that he has
17:52and he's already transformed into the best of history.
18:10I think that the goal is not all in a game or in a player.
18:18I want to be a surreal player, a player out of the planet.
18:38One of the greatest in the last years,
18:42and he's so influential for Barcelona.
18:48I think that the impossible is to do simple.
18:54In the training, he does things that nobody does,
18:59but from a way he seems to be able to do.
19:02So that's what I think makes the difference.
19:05What I think is the most important thing about him,
19:08it's going to be a lot, because he's a guy who doesn't have comments.
19:12What he does in the field is inexplicable.
19:13He's a great player.
19:14He's a great player.
19:15He's a great player.
19:16He's a great player.
19:17He's a great player.
19:18He's a great player.
19:19And he's a great player.
19:21Leo Messi is a source of happiness, happiness in the highest degree.
19:30Here they say that Leo Messi is better than doing love with your partner,
19:35because the happiness you give Leo Messi is more prolonged than you.
19:38And that's what people here in Barcelona feel.
19:41This question about Messi being the greatest player ever,
19:48it's one that perhaps in ten years time will look back and say,
19:51why did we even ask?
20:11I'll see you next time.
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