He of course mentioned the first edition of the "Finalissima", a match which will oppose, Wednesday evening (8:45 p.m.) at Wembley, Italy, European champions, and "his" Argentina, winner of the Copa America last summer.
A match that Leo Messi says he wants to "win so that the group adds another cup to its record and that of the Argentine people.
“But from Bilbao, in Spain, where the captain of the albiceleste is preparing for Wednesday's meeting, the latter also spoke about PSG during a long interview of around forty minutes granted to Argentinian channel TyC Sports.
La Pulga obviously returned to his departure from Barcelona, explaining that "it was a tough change, a difficult year honestly, because the adaptation was not easy".
"Fortunately, the children's adaptation has been spectacular," he continued.
We've always had this fear that children have a hard time with change.
And it was the other way around.
It was very easy, they adapted very quickly to school, to friends, day after day.
For Antonela (Editor's note: his wife) and me, it was more difficult.
The first day we took them to school was terrible.
We both left crying wondering what we were doing here, what had happened.
We didn't understand anything.
But they really have phenomena all three.
Being whistled had "never happened to him"
Children, at the center of his family life, for whom he worried when the Parc des Princes whistled him, four days after the elimination against Real Madrid, during the Ligue 1 match against Bordeaux.
“I immediately asked what the children had said, if they had seen it, what they had thought of it, he explains.
The truth is, I didn't like my family and kids being there and hearing people whistling at me.
They didn't tell me, they kind of let it go.
They didn't understand anything, because they don't realize why either.
I know they felt something.
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Beyond the family, he admits that the whistles he was subjected to were something new for him too.
“That had never happened to me at Barcelona, quite the contrary.
Considering the players we had, the team we were and that it was not the first time that Paris was eliminated from the Champions League in this way, people's anger is understandable.
Afterwards, whether I agree or not with the whistles towards Ney and me, it is we who have been singled out.
But hey, it happened!
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For having observed him "very closely throughout [his] life", Messi admits that he knew what Real Madrid was capable of.
"I knew it could happen, that they could score a goal out of nowhere and it would automatically change the course of the game.
(...) And that's what happened to us and to all the teams you mentioned (Chelsea, City and Liverpool).
This is not the first time this has happened.”
“At PSG, I know things will be different”
Not resentful, the sevenfold Golden Ball also makes Karim Benzema the big favorite to succeed him next October at the ceremony rewarding the best player in the world.
Congratulating "the spectacular season achieved by Benzema", Messi assures "that there is no doubt" about the identity of the future winner.
A Karim Benzema which he makes one of the serious contenders for victory in the World Cup this winter with the Blues.
“France is an impressive national team,” he explains, arguing that “the hard blow of the last Euro made it stronger.
“I think she will again be a candidate for the title of world champion”.
Before trying to thwart the plans of Deschamps and his band by winning his first world title with Argentina, the ex-Barcelonian will have another challenge to take up: finally show his true face with Paris.
“Thinking of me, individually and of this year, I think of being able to reverse the situation, he assures, no longer having the feeling of having changed clubs and of not having worked well.
I know this year is going to be different, I'm ready for that: I know the club, I know the city, I'm more comfortable in the locker room, with my teammates and I know things will be different.
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