O pai em estado terminal pediu para que o filho jogasse mais uma Copa, e ele não só jogou como deu tudo de si.
Chegou com dores musculares, aos 39 anos, e foi o melhor da competição.
Enquanto isso uma campanha covarde de ódio acontecia. Nunca esqueceremos seus filhos da puta.
39 with his body declining, fighting a smear campaign and his father on deaths door. These are all conditions for a disastrous world cup yet he delivered one of the greatest spectacles we’ve ever seen with 8 goals and another final. It’s crazy.
❤️🩹🇦🇷 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”.
He really just wanted to advance so his dad could have more time to get better and come. He made it all the way to the final but his dad still couldn’t make it😭 Poor Leo
i genuinely do not get emotional over celebrities and atheletes but this got me so bad. him going into every game thinking “just make it a little further so maybe my dad will get better and be there” like why am i actually tearing up over this ffs
💔 Leo Messi: "I don’t know what I’m going to do without you. I don’t know how to keep going. All I ever did was play football, and now I have serious doubts about whether I’ll keep doing it for much longer.
"You were by my side from the very beginning, and there was so little left until the end. Why couldn’t you hold on just a little longer so we could finish it together?"