Messi reflects as career winds down: "I enjoy it all much more now" | OneFootball

Now at 38 years old and playing for Inter Miami, Lionel Messi is facing the final stretch of his career, and that moment we all know will come—but nobody wants to accept—is getting closer. In this sense, the number 10 of the Argentine National Team assured that he is going through a present in which he enjoys “things much more.”

“You get used to everything and along the way you just go with it, doing things. You don’t realize a lot of things. In fact, you don’t enjoy what each thing deserves. There are many things that, maybe, you just don’t pay attention to. You were a champion and by the next match it’s ‘we have to win the next one.’ You don’t give real value to what each achievement means,” said Leo, in a conversation with the podcast Miro de Atrás with Nahuel Guzmán, a former teammate on the Albiceleste, when asked if he was aware of everything he achieved throughout his sporting career.

“You start to value things much more, you enjoy them in a different way. Today, I enjoy the training camps, the trips… You start to appreciate what you are achieving or have achieved. Sometimes I find myself talking with my son about things that have happened,” continued the captain of the Celeste y Blanca, making it clear that nowadays he doesn’t have the same demands he used to have in previous years and allows himself to spend more time with his family.

“My kids only remember what they’ve lived from a certain point onwards. What I lived and did, they couldn’t care less, haha. They know it, they’re aware of it. Imagine, I didn’t value it myself, so imagine them… Today I enjoy everything much more,” he reflected about Mateo, Ciro, and Thiago, and whether they are aware of what La Pulga has accomplished.

The truth is that Messi is facing the twilight of his career in a city and on a team that allow him to experience things he often couldn’t before, due to being committed to achieving goals and adding trophies to his personal collection.

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