🚨🔵🔴 EXCLUSIVE: RODRI TO BARCELONA, HERE WE GO! 💥
Deal agreed for Spanish midfielder to join Barça from Man City, all done for the former Ballon d’Or.
Green light from Man City to last Barcelona bid.
More follows. 💣
"No pude, las piernas no me daban más", de ese hijo tan grande a su padre recién muerto, se inscribe como una de las líneas memorables de la historia de la literatura argentina.
La carta agranda la que para mí es la dimensión menos registrada y más impresionante de la carrera de Messi en mundiales, que es su presencia absoluta y sin lesiones.
Desde 2010 para acá, jugó los 31 partidos de los cinco mundiales, incluidos 8 alargues, y en cada partido todos supimos que Argentina no tenía posibilidades reales sin él adentro de la cancha, incluso cuando ya tenía 39 años.
A su cuerpo nunca se le ocurrió escaparse de la responsabilidad y del estrés por medio del desgarro o del esquince.
Apenas se tocó el isquiotibial en aquella semifinal contra Croacia, y antes de que el país se paralizara por la duda pateó un penal con el empeine entero y siguió jugando.
Durante todo ese camino vio ir y venir de la cancha a sus pares, como el Kun y Di María, por molestias o golpes o tirones, y a sus discípulos diez años más chicos, como el Cuti o Lisandro, que se dieron el permiso humano de no dar más mientras Leo tenía que seguir dando.
No nos va a alcanzar la vida para absorber el tamaño de lo que vimos.
❤️🩹🇦🇷 Leo Messi: “Dad, you kept asking me to play in one last World Cup… just days before it began was when your condition got worse”.
“It was the first time you weren’t going to be there with me at tournament… but Mom kept telling me you were going to get better and that you’d be well enough to travel”.
“I kept telling you we were going to reach the World Cup final so you could make the trip, this was my mission once again”.
“After every match, I waited for and missed your message. That’s when I realized how serious the situation really was”.
“I couldn’t stop thinking about going as far as possible, give you more time and the chance to watch one of the games”.
“We reached the final, but you couldn’t be there. I wanted to win it so I could bring the trophy to you and show you another one. I couldn’t”.
“My legs just couldn’t give me any more”.
“This time I tried to push beyond what my body could handle, but I couldn’t”.
“I never managed to feel physically right”.
“We didn’t become champions Dad, but you have no idea how much we enjoyed every match. Once again, you were right: I had to be there and play in it… as you told me, always”.
It takes incomprehensible superhuman strength to go and play in a world cup and quite literally carry an entire team and nation on your back to yet another final at the age of 39 while your father is terminally ill. All while some mentally deranged and flat out evil people on social media are comparing you to a genocidal maniac.
Lionel Andres Messi Cucittini, you are stronger than all of us put together. You represent a beacon of hope not just for football but for humanity in general.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you for everything you've done for me, for us fans, and for the sport.
Te amo Leo. ❤️❤️❤️