Lionel Messi
is the best soccer player on the planet: he has just been awarded The Best by FIFA and has just won the world title with the Argentine National Team in Qatar 2022, where he won the MVP award.
However, his present at Paris Saint Germain is far from being ideal for the 35-year-old from Rosario.
Where will Messi play from June?
That is the question that floats in the air of the world of the ball.
Rosario's contract with the French club expires in the middle of the year and there is already talk of a possible return to Barcelona;
also of a million-dollar offer from Saudi Arabian soccer (to put on the Al-Hilal shirt) that according to reports, Messi would have already declined and as a third option is the renewal with PSG.
However, there is a glimmer of hope for Leo to end his career as a professional soccer player on South American pitches.
In the tribute that Conmebol paid to the world champions with Argentina on March 27 in the framework of the draw for the Copa Libertadores and the Copa Sudamericana in Luque, Paraguay, the president of the entity that governs South American football,
Alejandro Domínguez allowed himself to joke with Messi
.
Domínguez gave him a stick so that Messi "leads" world football and also discovered a statue with the figure of Rosario with the Argentine shirt and the World Cup that is already located in the Conmebol museum along with one of Diego
Maradona
and another from the Brazilian Pelé.
At that ceremony, Domínguez reviewed Messi's titles and told him:
"The only cup you lack is the Libertadores."
The footballer's nervous smile reveals more of a utopia than a reality, but the president of Conmebol saw his opportunity and took advantage of it.
Messi next to his statue and the president of Conmebol, Alejandro Domínguez.
REUTERS/Cesar Olmedo
Now the Argentine offered an interview on the Bolavip sports site and from the stands of the Parque de los Príncipes admitted that he does not know many fields in South America, beyond the ones he had to visit with the National Team for the South American Qualifiers.
The chronicler reminded him of the Colossus Marcelo Bielsa and Messi agreed that he "professionally" did not play on Newell's pitch, the club he is a fan of.
Messi played on the Parque de la Independencia field in June 2011 in a benefit match organized by the Pupi Foundation, chaired by Javier Zanetti.
There he shared the playing field with great figures like Diego Maradona, Juan Román Riquelme and even Lionel Scaloni, the current coach of the National Team.
But it is true that Messi never played as a professional on the field of the club he loves.
"In Central, yes," said the Rosario instead.
In 2009 he was part of the Argentine National Team that lost 3-1 to Brazil at the Gigante de Arroyito for a qualifying match for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. That time, the coach, Diego Maradona, chose that venue to play against the Brazilians because he understood that the fervor of the public in a stadium that has the playing field very close to the stands could positively influence the performance of his team.
But it was not like that.
In the advance of the interview, they also ask Messi what profession he would have practiced if he had not become a footballer.
And the Flea replied that he always had football in his head.
In this line, Sergio Ramos, Vitinha, Neymar and Marquinhos also responded to the ping-pong that the interviewers proposed to them.
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