🚨 Emi Martínez on easy path to the final: “We didn’t choose our opponents”.
“Look… we had to face Portugal in the quarterfinals, but Colombia dominated against Portugal”. 👀
“Switzerland beat Colombia, and we ended up playing Switzerland”.
“I’m supporting Spain so I can hate on Argentina and Messi” is one of the quickest ways to tell me you’re new to football.
Several of Spain’s players came through La Masia and grew up admiring Messi, including Lamine, Gavi, Cubarsí and Olmo.
Pedri isn’t from La Masia, but he joined Barça at 17 and has spoken about how Messi helped him when he arrived.
There’s so much admiration and history between them, so acting like Spain is the anti-Messi team makes no sense. Those are his “La Masia Children.”