Lionel Messi is celebrating his 35th birthday today (Friday).
He has spent the last few days with his partner Antonella on the Spanish island of Ibiza as he has been doing all these years, but it seems that the flea summer needs a real head cleaning, before he begins one of the most important years of his career.
A year in which he can make his greatest haters, silent once and for all.
A year in which he is expected to bring a World Cup to Argentina for the first time since 1986 and sweep PSG to win the Champions League for the first time in its history.
The little magician may have broken countless records and is one of the most decorated actors in the world but still, it seems that the burden of proof still rests on his shoulders.
This season he has scored 11 goals and 14 assists in all competitions for PSG but at the City of Lights club, as of these years, the real expectation is to win the Champions League.
For Paris fans anything but the coveted trophy hoisting is a big failure, which Messi is also included in.
Boys do not want a girlfriend, they just want Messi to win FIFA Worldcup 2022🏆🇦🇷💙 pic.twitter.com/CX17Ldzlsb
- SK10 𓃵 (@ SK10Football) June 23, 2022
The contempt he received during the season was jarring but Messi also knows that he provided football much less well than he could present, very far from what he showed in Barcelona and made his critics say - "We told you so".
Killian Ambape and Messi, who got used to being on all of Barcelona's posters, got the most focus, suddenly realizing that he was not the main nail.
The only thing that can silence the people who claim he is spending his last years in a soulless group, is to be signed to fulfill her biggest dream.
In the Argentina national team, where he has been marked as Diego Armando Maradona's successor since the beginning of his career, Messi has 86 goals in 162 games and won the media last summer at the Copa America but the only thing the country he was born in wants is a World Cup win in Qatar.
After the loss in the 2014 World Cup final to Germany and the painful relegation in the quarterfinals in Russia, by France, Messi and his teammates know this will be his last chance to put the stamp that he is the greatest in history, or at least stand in line with Maradona who died a year and a half ago. 32 games without a loss, the Albiceleste reach the Princesses in November with confidence in the sky, but it is clear to everyone that it will rise and fall to number 10. Which puts on its shoulders much heavier weights.
🇦🇷 Happy birthday, Lionel Messi 🥳
⏮ Flashback to his performance against Italy in Finalissima 🤩 # HBD pic.twitter.com/0UGxf7VvSD
- UEFA EURO 2024 (@ EURO2024) June 24, 2022
Unlike the World Cups to date that Argentina has reached with strange, insufficient quality staff and claims that Messi could lean on to say that for him too it is a difficult task to go all the way, now stands behind a talented, balanced team that has proven in the last two years capable of tackling the world.
At the beginning of the month, the blue and whites defeated Italy 0: 3 at Wembley in the final of the "Finalsima" when Messi was lifted by his teammates at the end and won great love.
If this coming December, the picture does not return with the golden and important trophy in the world, his next birthday Messi will celebrate again with feelings, that there are doors that are still left open.
Mazel Tov.
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