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 no one wants to accept—is getting closer. In this regard, the number 10 of the Argentine National Team assured that he is currently enjoying things “much more.”

“You get used to everything and just go along with it, doing things. You don’t realize many things. In fact, you don’t enjoy what each thing deserves. There are many things that, maybe, you don’t pay attention to. You’d be 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,” Leo said in a conversation with the podcast Miro de Atrás with Nahuel Guzmán, a former teammate in the Albiceleste, when asked if he was aware of everything he has accomplished throughout his sports career.

“You start to value things much more, you enjoy them in a different way. Now I enjoy the training camps, the trips… You start to value 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 pressure 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 through. What I lived and did, they don’t care at all, haha. They know about it, they’re aware of it. Imagine, I didn’t value it myself, so imagine them… Now I enjoy everything much more,” he reflected about Mateo, Ciro, and Thiago, and whether they are aware of what La Pulga has achieved.

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

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