Leo Messi exclusive interview with Jordi Évole: Part 1
On family and his private life:
Evole: What are your Christmas plans?
Messi: Heading back to Argentina for Christmas, all my family are there …. it’s complicated though with the pandemic….. it’s difficult in Argentina too…
Evole: What was your favourite gift for Christmas as a kid?
Messi: I remember getting an official match ball …it was expensive but my folks made a major effort and I also remember getting a Newell’s shirt which was special.
Evole: I wasn’t sure if this interview would go ahead as the pandemic has really turned things upside down but you are one of the few people who have made me jump from my seat in the past 15 years….
Messi: I’m not one for speaking about matters such as a global pandemic in public.
Evole: Have you ever used Cristiano when playing on the Playstation?
Messi: Never…. I just pick random teams
Messi signs a Barcelona shirt and Evole asks what the FCB shirt means to messi
Messi: This shirt means everything for me, my love for the club, the city, my kids were born here
Evole: How are you now after the summer?
Messi: I’m good now and the episode of the summer is behind me …. the club is having a rough time but I’m full of enthusiasm but the club is in bad shape.
Evole: Everyone is analyzing your constant moves…. pictures on social media, gestures…. how is it living with that ?
Messi: There’s no way I could live my life worrying what everyone thinks…..
Evole: Have you cried recently Leo?
Messi: For sporting matters no, but yes for a personal issue that I’d rather keep private.
Evole: Are you in the Whats-app group with the other parents at the kids school?
Messi: (laughs) …no, that’s something that Antonela looks after
Evole: Do you watch the likes of Peppa Pig or Paw Patrol with the kids
Messi: Yes, I’ve seen all those …. they also like to watch videos on YouTube and are keen to play with devices … I like being with my children, playing football … I enjoy everything that is being with them. Every night some of them appear in bed. Thiago is not so much anymore, but Mateo still comes.
Evole: I heard one day that Thiago came back from school somewhat hurt as the other kids were teasing him for being your son..how was that ?
Messi: Yes, that was sad episode but we’ve seen how the three kids now stand up for one another and Matteo is the least introverted of the three I’d say. Thiago is like me: introverted, shy … and has a hard time when they tell him some things about me. anyway, from the age of 4 he has had the same companions and they themselves protect him and take him out of all that.
Evole: analysing Messi’s life …can you just pop down to the local supermarket?
Messi: Sometimes, but it can be difficult …. I still go to restaurants with the family in Gava and Castelfidels…. I go to the Casanova Beach for example and am good friends with the owner. My life is very normal and sometimes boring. I get up, have breakfast, take the boys to school, I train, I go back, as with Antonella … the truth is, little else. Sometimes I have gone to the supermarket to buy. Not always, but I also like to go. Not to the markets anymore, because a lot of people get together and it becomes difficult. I have lived here for ten years (in Castelldefels). It is small and I know everything, of course
Evola: Many people you feel you live a privileged life …. what would you say to those individuals
Messi: It’s true…. we do live a privileged life but I’d like at times just to be able to pop out to the market or head to the cinema but that’s impossible. Every time I leave the house with the kids, we’re aware of hundreds of eyes on us.
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