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PSG: Insolent Messi, “he tore it up”
Published on April 16, 2023 at 8:10 p.m.
When he wore number 30 at FC Barcelona, Lionel Messi was just starting his football career but was already considered one of the best in the world. One evening in February 2006, the 26th to be precise, the Barça of Ronaldinho and Messi faced the Chelsea of Frank Lampard and Hernan Crespo. The Argentinian, teammate of La Pulga in Argentina, remembers this match.
Accustomed to making misery to the defenders of Liga, this evening of February 2006 allowed Messi to rub shoulders at a very high level, the Champions League. And he will remember it since a certain Asier of the Furnace who will become one of the first defenders to be humiliated by the Argentinian, receiving a red card during this match for having violently rammed the tireless dribbler.
“He broke us, tore us up”
In an interview with Relief, Hernan Crespo, then player Chelsea and holder that evening, remembers: “ We played against him when I played at Chelsea and he at FC Barcelona, he broke us, tore us up. That’s when I saw him at a very high level, he was already different. But he lacked experience. I have Messi’s yellow ’30’ (his first number at Barca), we swapped it in that game. »
“He exploded during the World Cup”
The Argentinian community then evokes the adventure achieved by argentina in 2006 World Cup and during the America’s Cup 2007 and had really been able to rub shoulders with the young Leo Messi, just 19 years old at the time: We went to the World Cup, he exploded in the Copa América and all I could do was enjoy him. I could see he was different. It’s not just the talent, it was the fact that he dribbles everyone around and it looked easy to see. »
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