Messi: “Guardiola has hurt football a lot”

Paris Saint-Germain striker Leo Messi has admitted Pep Guardiola’s work at Barcelona, ​​where he built one of the best teams in history. It seemed so simple that everything the world wanted to imitate

The Argentine, who will try to win the World Cup in Qatar 2022 with the Albiceleste national team, insisted that what he achieved as a player in Barcelona is not practically repeated: “After that, I found a lot with Guardiola … and you realize what we did

The former Barcelona player could face the last World Cup: At 35 years old and with a future still in the air, one of the best players in history will try to confirm the team led by Lionel Scaloni until the title that eluded him in 2014

Pep Guardiola, now at Manchester City, and Leo Messi, the Paris Saint-Germain captain alongside Neymar and Mbappe, spent a total of four years at Barcelona and created one of the most dominant teams in modern history: they collected a total of 14 19 potential title

Indeed, the Catalan had a superlative influence on the Argentine star’s growth, consolidation and stardom: it provided him with the perfect context to bring out his full potential until he became a total footballer and developed him in all aspects of the game