The next months of November and December will be very significant for football fans, since not only will the World Cup in Qatar take place 2022 , but we will be witnesses of what could be the farewell to the tournament of one of the greatest in history.
Such is the case of Lionel Messi, who said in an interview that this will surely be the last World Cup in which he will compete, significantly reducing the chances of seeing him in action in North America 2026.
To the express question of whether it will be his last World Cup, the captain of the albiceleste team agreed and replied:
“Yes, surely yes”, responded bluntly in a chat with Sebastián Vignolo, from Star+, and continued : “ I feel good, physically, I was able to do a very good preseason this year that I hadn’t been able to do the year before, it was essential to start in a different way and to arrive as I did, with a lot of mentality and a lot of enthusiasm”, he added.
Taking advantage of the revelation that broke the hearts of many of his followers, the journalist questioned Leo about whether he would be interested in making a career as DT after his retirement, which he denied, but he did not close the door for complete to the possibility.
“ I am not going to be a coach, but Zidane said that and later he was a coach and champion of Champions”, he declared.
Moments later, Messi added that he was leaning more towards a position as sports director, although he showed that he still has a lot to think about.
“I like sports management, team building, accompanying the coach, but I’m not 100% sure either”, he said.
About his forecast for the Argentina national team during the next World Cup, the star did not want to commit and preferred to take pressure off the team, arguing that there are other teams that ue are favorites over them.
“I don’t know if we are the great candidates, but Argentina is always a candidate, because of its history and what it means. But we are not the top favourites, there are other teams that are above us”, he concluded.
Lionel Messi will play his fifth World Cup in Qatar 2022, a tournament in which he will seek to give Argentina its third star.
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