Thursday 30 October 2008

Messi (1): "I'm not going to change my style"

Barcelona player Lionel Messi gave an interview to Italian sports paper La Gazzetta dello Sport.





In Spain, many people say that Messi is too individualistic.
I play like that since I was a boy and I'm not going to change. I'm an instinctive player, an individualist who nevertheless works for the team. Rijkaard and Guardiola have understood this.

Guardiola is different from Rijkaard?
Guardiola likes a lot to be between the players, to make us feel his presence, to speak with us. He still seems a player.

You feel liberated from the shadow of Ronaldinho and Deco?
Without them, Barcelona's way of playing has changed and everyone has benefited from that: the ball is doing more work now.

What is your role in the team?
I got used to playing on the rigth wing, close to the side, although I always try to cut towards the center. I also like to play as centre forward with more freedom of movement, like I often do under Guardiola.

Maradona has critiziced you.
Things have been said at the time. I know that Diego respects me and I don't hold anything against him.

Who were your idols when you were young?
Aimar above all, when he played with River Plate. But also D'Alessandro and the Colombian Angel.

Not Maradona?
I've only seen him play once, when I was five years old. My father took me to the stadium of Newell's Old Boys, the club he was a fan of. But I don't remember anything.

Now he'll be your coach at the national team.
No problem, it's a great person. I admire him for what he has given to the Argentinian football.

Argentina is in chaos...
But I am optimistic: the generation that won the Olympics is coming. If in 2006 we would have been more fortunate in the quarter finals against Germany, we could have won the tournament. Argentina didn't win the World cup for too long.



This was the first part of this interview. The second part will follow soon, with Messi talking -amongst other things - about the opponents in the Liga and the Champions League.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

EL PUJO! the nightmare of defenders. We luv u. Just keep doing ur thing and the sky will be the beginning. Up Barca!!! Hey PEP, wouldnt it be nice if u start a wapsite. not everyone have easy assess to the web or might sometimes too busy to av time for the computer. Or wat do think? and this to the other guys or opinion on this. am from nigeria, so i av more assess to wap than the web. One Luv yall. am out!!!!!!!!!!!

pep said...

If I'd only know what a wapsite is...

Anonymous said...

Hey isnt it good if you also tell us some history of this club.. I have been supporting barca from last two games ... I whould love know some things like why maradona left or beckham/ronaldinho transfer saga ...

Anonymous said...

oops from last 2 years

pep said...

It sure is good, Koyya, but at this point there's simply no time for that. Maybe this will be the case later if more people join in.



Just to give you some stuff to read for now.

- Read what's going on with our former players here:
http://fcbtransfers.blogspot.com/search/label/ex-bar%C3%A7a

- Read something about Maradone here:
http://fcbtransfers.blogspot.com/search/label/maradona

- Read everything on the Ronaldinho transfer here:
http://fcbtransfers.blogspot.com/search/label/ronaldinho

Anonymous said...

Maradona Messi situation.. It seems there not a VERY good relationship btw them. Dont get me wrong, they would both act like its fine, but for Messi to say he was 5 when he saw Diego and cant remember anyhting says a lot, and Diego has also openly critised Messi, I hope Maradona dont make he take drugs (lol)... I wish them both luck in the Argentine Adventure

Anonymous said...

thanks pep

Anonymous said...

Seriously... what is WAP???

Anonymous said...

wap is internet on mobilephone.

Anonymous said...

yup now the all the team will smoke crack !!!!! lol... maradona is gona prove to the world that you can play sports and do drugs .. hahaha
seriously i mean is mardona cable of managing a squad ? or this a stunt i dont know it seems wired ?

Anonymous said...

ΤΟ ΚΟΥΥΑ


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FC_Barcelona

http://www.fcbarcelona.com/web/english/club/historia/historia.html

http://www.fcbarcelona.com/web/english/club/club_avui/mes_que_un_club/mesqueunclub.html

http://www.fcbarcelona.com/web/english/club/club_avui/informacio_corporativa/barca_enxifres/barca_enxifres.html

http://www.fcbarcelona.com/web/english/futbol/palmares/palmares.html

http://www.fcbarcelona.com/web/english/club/historia/introduccio/introduccio.html

http://www.fcbarcelona.com/web/english/futbol/temporada_08-09/estadistiques/jugadors/Equip/fitxa.html

AND THE OFFICIAL WEPSITE

http://www.fcbarcelona.com/web/english/

Anonymous said...

thanks kempe cy :)

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