“Forty-five days without seeing our family. Dibu was a father and he couldn’t see her daughter, he couldn’t get her up; He Chinese all the same. We are only one step away and it is up to us to win this Cup. We will go out and win to take it with our families, friends, people who have always supported us. Forty-five days without our family, guys. We had a goal and we are one step away from achieving it. You know what? This cup was to be played in Argentina and God brought it here, so that we raise it in the Maracana. To make it more beautiful for everyone, so let’s go out confident and calm that we will take this home. “Listen and watch the harangue of Lio Messi in the corridors of a crowded Maracana, before the final of Copa América 2021 that Argentina ended up winning, excites even the most cerebral fan. But that’s just one of the many moving moments they are a part of Be Eternal: Champions of Americathe docuseries on the national team that Netflix uploaded to his catalog weeks ago and that The nine premiered this Thursday at 10pm, for three consecutive Thursdays, for open TV.
Ten days from the start of the World Cup in Qatar 2022, be eternal It is presented as the ideal prelude to calm football anxiety in view of November 22 at 7 am, the day and time when the national team will debut against Saudi Arabia. The series, as a staging of three chapters, shows with unpublished material all the intimacy of the path that consecrated the team led by Lionel Scaloni to champion of the Copa America in Brazil, which ended the 28 years of drought without raising the continental trophy. And it gave Messi the opportunity to finally win his first title with the senior team. A result for which the series is responsible in all its importance, given the importance that the tournament had for the star of world football.
Through a relaxed account of the players and the national team coaching staff, be eternal It is much more than a series about those days in Brazil and in the midst of a pandemic that ended with the victory of the Copa América. In reality, the documentary produced by Pegsa (the producer of the former Puma Agustín Pichot) and Netflix is a journey into the mind and daily life of Messi, the best player in the world for whom glory with the national team had eluded him until then, typical of dribbling that usually amazes every time it is on a football field. “Winning the Copa América was the best thing of my career,” acknowledges Messi in the documentary, almost admitting the joy that raised that trophy generated him, but also the weight he took off after shouting “champion” at the Maracana.
“My family has always been the one who lived it just like me, the one who suffered a lot, and at the same time tried to be strong in front of me to show me that they were fine, that there was nothing wrong , but I know what they went through and that moment was like a leave of absence for everyone ”, acknowledges the captain of the national team. In the same line, Angelo Di Maria It also gives an account of the significance this cup had for the entire campus and also for their relatives. “It’s difficult, so many years of suffering and in the end being able to make it I think it’s not only mine, but it also belongs to my wife, my daughters and also to the team, to my father. After all that suffering they have had, to be able to give them that Cup and say ‘enough, I did it’. I have thousands of trophies, but not like this, like this is not there, I think this was the only thing I wanted, “admits” Fideo “.
In all three chapters of be eternal, the docuseries highlights and in the first person something that should have been but is still unprecedented in the history of football: the desire of their teammates – even the Technical Director – to be champions for Messi, more than for themselves. That final image, once the referee whistled the end of the decisive match, with Messi on his knees and embraced by all his teammates, sums up that desire.
“I am very pleased that he has achieved it, that we have achieved it, but above all for him, for how he has taught us not to stop trying. And someday I’ll tell my kids all the things I’ve been a part of and helped them, I think, make one of their dreams of him come true, “he says. Rodrigo De Paolo on “The flea”. A sentiment that is also expressed in the Lionel Scaloni series. “Never in my life have I seen such a thing, that a teammate hopes to win something for him, for Leo”, acknowledges the manager of the chosen team.
The Messi phenomenon within world football – the natural axis of the documentary – is not only analyzed by the Argentine captain’s teammates but also by prominent international personalities such as Neymar Jr, Ronaldinho, Dani Alves, Xavi Hernández, Césc Fábregas, Sergio Busquets, Luis Suárez, Jordi Alba, Arturo Vidal and former Argentine players Javier Zanetti, Javier Mascherano and Pablo Aimar. The admiration they express for Messi is unanimous.
“The decision to show the series on the screen of El Nueve be eternalproduced by Pegsa and Netflix, it has to do with the proposed The nine and of October group that at the beginning of the year we decided to reflect different aspects of the Argentine national team in the year of the World Cup “, he says Page / 12 Sebastian Rollandi, general manager of El Nueve. “We did it – lists Rollandi – with Amazon with production Argentina national team, the series, and in this case with the series reflecting the intimacy of the team when they won the Copa America in 2021. It reflects the unity that exists between the players and shows a captain, Messi, with his personality, with his claw and by what does the national team mean, what it meant to have won the Copa América and the illusion that all 45 million Argentines have in view of the World Cup. We are happy to be able to broadcast it on El Nueve, to be able to be a screen capable of being associated with platforms, which was another goal during 2022. This is happening: we did it with Amazon, we did it with To flow hand in hand with the fiction series The fan and now we finish it with the Netflix series on the national team and on the leading role of Messi. “
