‘Leo messi, el 10º arte ‘is the documentary by TV3 who asked various personalities from the world of football if what the Argentine footballer has done for so many years FC Barcelona on the court it can be classified as art. Pep Guardiola, Luis Enrique
Martínez, Ernesto Valverde, Xavi Hernandez, Andres Iniesta, Jorge Valdano, Fabio Capello, Neymar Y Luis Suarez they do not avoid the game and end up drawing parallels with other icons of culture in their very diverse spheres, suggesting names such as those of Shaskespeare, Ferran Adrià, Miquel Barceló (Pep Guardiola), Beethoven, Dalí (Luis Enrique), The Beatles (Valverde), Michael Jackson (Xavi Hernández and Neymar), Picasso Y Caravaggio (Capello).
For one hour and 13 minutes and broadcast this Tuesday by TV3, the documentary presented by Ramon Gener throws the hypothesis and comes to the conclusion that, although Leo’s boots may be in the MNAC (National Art Museum of Catalonia) His best place is the Camp Nou grass, although he does not miss the opportunity to compare Messi’s creative precocity with that of Mozart, Leo’s status as an advantageous student with Leonardo da Vinci and his teacher Andrea del Verrocchio, the playful vision of 10 with that of Pablo Picasso, the universal bombast of Lionel’s play with the Holy Family of Gaudí, the obsessive perfectionism of Rosario with that of Beethoven and even the rivalry with Cristiano Ronaldo like the duel for the Golden Ball of opera that took place in the 19th century between gave Y Wagner.
Guardiola: “Barceló, Ferran Adrià, Shakespeare, Ali, Jordan, Nadal, Federer, Djokovic, Leo … everyone is excited”
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“Leo makes us all good, he understands this game like no one else. Leo’s goals are not goals, they are always great goals. Is that taught? Absolutely not. There are awesome players, but there are others that last forever and ever, amen. On the day of 2-6 we had not trained to put him in the middle and get him out of the band, we only talked about it before, but the good guys haven’t even trained him. They were very good people, but in the field they were ‘fucking murderers’. Messi is an artist, yes he is, undoubtedly. Comparable to whom? Miquel Barceló, Ferran Adrià, Shakespeare … And in sports, like Muhamad Ali, Jordan, Nadal, Federer, Djokovic … Why? because they left something that moved us all ”.
Luis Enrique: “A genius, like Beetthoven or Dalí”
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“Leo is a racing machine. If at the beginning he had met a veteran other than Ronaldinho, who would have been more selfish or more ‘bastard’, he would have had more problems. But Ronaldinho welcomed Leo as he should: he even let him shoot fouls and found what he needed for his growth. It is impossible to carry the ball so close at that speed. Losing for Messi is something very hard. He was seen the next day, after the game. In football, Leo Messi is a genius, clear, just like Bethoven was who he was … or Dalí ”.
Ernesto Valverde: “From the Beatles to Michael Jordan”
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“Leo has a radar on his head … oh my! In the 2015 Cup final, when I was training Athletic, I later told Mikel Rico that in 1-0 I should have knocked him down and Rico answered me ‘it was impossible to knock him down’. Against Madrid, Leo was especially motivated. Messi is unique. You just have to go through the world with him to know that he is unique. Who is it comparable to? from the Beatles, to Michael Jordan ”.
Xavi Hernández: “It is comparable to Michael Jackson”
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“He illuminates so many facets of the game that he is the best footballer in history, without a doubt. Ronaldinho and Leo immediately had a lot of ‘feeling’. He sponsored him, saw him as a relay. When Leo scored the goal against Getafe, I already knew it was going to go down in history. When you are looking for a way to win with the group and it doesn’t work, he comes out and wins the game. Messi and Cristiano? They will not say it but one looked to see if the other marked and vice versa. They have been re-fed, they are competitive animals. With the 2010 Ballon d’Or, Pep took out the envelope with Messi’s name on it and I thought ‘justice, Leo is a better footballer than me, he’s better than Andrés, he’s better than anyone else’. The great footballers appear in the great moments, and Leo always appeared, in a final, in a Classic … of his goals I am left with the 0-2 Champions League at the Bernabéu. He was dribbling cones in a dry field that they put us, in a field where the boots were not seen, the guy was dribbling Madrid players, that was a spectacle. Leo whips himself when he loses. I remember him crying the day he missed the penalty against Chelsea and saying ‘it’s my fault’. For Leo, not winning is a failure. Who would you compare him to? to Michael Jackson, who was a genius. It is comparable to the best in any field of life ”.
Iniesta: “Something wakes you up that no other wakes you up”
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“What Leo wakes you up is different from what another player wakes you up. From the first day he left us amazed with his way of playing. Ronnie was a great inspiration for Leo ”.
Luis Suárez: “He’s different, I compare him to Schumacher in F1”
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“Leo has a quiet leadership. He has much of a neighborhood player, the mischief, that comes from there, those tricks he learned in the street. We experienced defeats that left us without speaking for three days, such as the 4-0 in Paris, the horrible return on the plane. The thing in Rome was more fever for doing things really wrong and Bayern’s was terrifying, it generated a lot of pain. Leo is a different artist. As was Schumacher in Formula 1 ”.
Ronaldinho: “It’s a machine”
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“I don’t see myself as an idol of Leo, but as a great friend. We got on very well and on the pitch it was all very easy. I tried to do everything so that Leo could play at ease. Leo is one of the best of all time. It’s a machine”.
Neymar: “Everything is different in Messi, that’s why Messi is”
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“What makes Messi different? Everything, that’s why Messi is. He drives the ball very fast and that makes his mark difficult. Leo will always be the best teammate I have ever played with and my pride is having learned with him. After a loss he had no conversation. And yes, Leo is a soccer artist. It is unique, as was Michael Jackson ”.
Valdano: “He is the player with the most ‘punctuality’ in history”
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“With Leo you have to go to the moment when a sperm met the egg at the perfect moment. The street part is already in its creative pattern. Geniuses are the difference. In Maradona’s feet the ball was like a musical instrument and in Messi’s feet it is like a tool. They are at a similar height. Maradona’s goal against Argentina and Leo’s against Getafe is like a dance with complexities; for example, make the ball obey. You don’t know how he does it but he’s in the right place at the right time. He has a capacity for divination and above all a punctuality that no one has had in the history of this game, he is the most punctual player in the history of football. Messi or Crtistiano? If one is a genius the other is a phenomenon. The Cristiano thing has incredible merit, looking into the eyes of a genius. Leo does better than anyone what everyone knows how to do and does many things that nobody knows how to do ””.
Capello: “Messi is like Picasso, like Caravaggio”
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“Messi is a genius who does things that others cannot even think about. Three players have made a difference in the history of football: Pelé, Maradona and Messi. In that 2005 Gamper, when I saw the Barça line-up, I said ‘who is this kid? There was no way to stop it. I never thought a 16-year-old could do that with so much personality. In the 25th minute I told Rijkaard, give it to me for a year that he will play with me all season. You are going to see a game where Messi plays and surely if you wait until the end you will see something for which it is worth paying a ticket. He does things with his feet that you can’t even do with your hand. Messi is like Picasso, like Caravaggio ”.
Rio Ferdinand: “He’s a magician”
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“Leo is a wizard. The best I’ve ever played against. At the 2011 Wembley final he embarrassed me. The whole party I went after him. Against that Barça without Messi we would have won anyway ”.
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