Zidane’s huge confession to Leo gets better response

Lionel Messi and Zinedine Zidane, two of football’s greatest representatives, gave a great football talk for the adidas brand in Miami.

“It’s such a shame not to play with you,” the Frenchman began, and Leo returned the wall: “I admire you so much. We weren’t lucky enough to play together, but we were lucky enough to face each other a little bit , and then you as a coach. Always have respect and admiration for everything you do and continue to do.”

Messi and No. 10: “For Argentines, 10 is a very special number, and people will naturally think of Maradona. Those of us who grew up with football want to be like him, although no one became like him later. People like that, but that’s the desire and the hope. To copy what Maradona, a player we admire, did. I rarely saw Diego, when he went to Newell’s in the final stages, he was only six or seven years old. I don’t I remember it so well, and then I obviously saw the video, but even though I hadn’t met him, he was a reference and an idol for us.”

Maradona: “Diego is a very strong man and he will continue to be there for many years. Just like he was when he was there. My kids, although they have never met Diego, know it through the videos and the things we tell them Him. For us, his image is very important for everything he represents for Argentines around the world.”

hook: “Growing up we all wanted to have 10. Today I don’t know if it is that important. Its previous position, the peg, is today more internal or at the wrong end. There are not many left. Like Riquelme and Aimar Players like this have always been characteristic of Argentina’s top ten players.”

Leo and his children: “My kids love football, they are very young. Boys generally like to score goals, unless you are born to score goals, haha. They are with the ball all day long. Before my children and family came, football was always is the first thing in my mind. Today, I became a father and I realize how hard they work for their children, taking them to training, to play…”

Zidane’s idol: “My reference was Enzo Francescoli who played for Marseille and one of my sons was named after him. When I saw him I said ‘I want to be like him’. He is very elegant, how he handles the ball, you don’t see that much. When Enzo came we saw that he was a different footballer, not many foreigners, he was a magician with the ball. I too Want to do the same thing.”

Messi talks about Enzo: “I was still a kid but I saw the River Plate era and they won everything and they had a great team. Today he continues to work at the club. I was lucky enough to meet him and he is a great guy. I remember River being crazy and that was his last stage at River.”

Leo’s idol Aimar: “I really like Aimar. I like the way he plays and he has a great team at River Plate. Apart from Diego being a single example, Pablo is someone I admire a lot as a player. Man. I didn’t pay much attention to European football when I was a kid.”

Modern football: “Football has changed a lot, the way of playing, the system has changed. When they were young, they started playing in a 4-3-3 formation, which is why No. 10 is not suitable for this system. In this way, the training of those players It’s lost. “I spent a lot of time wearing No. 10 in games before… I don’t know if that number is as important as it was in another era, but it’s still a special jersey. “

He used the number 30 at PSG: “When I had to go to Paris I didn’t have the number 10 jersey, it didn’t matter and nothing happened, but I did miss having the number my whole life a little bit, but I’m used to it. I debuted 30th and I have something special too.”

What is Messi to Zidane? “Magic. For everyone who loves football, these players are different. There are, but few, and few like him. Leo is a role model for everyone, his life is family and football. It’s a dream come true to think that he can do what he does on the field. When he’s on the field, everyone else has confidence. He knows what he’s going to do before he even catches the ball.”

Leo’s praise for Zidane: “For me he is one of the greatest players in history and I suffered a lot in Madrid because I came from Barcelona, ​​the Galactico era. He has always been a different, elegant player who had everything. I remember the goals against Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League and the World Cup in France. Great players transfer to the jersey and the national team. “He is a different person. “

Messi said to future generations: “We were touched, we were lucky to be chosen. Then there was a job, a daily responsibility, and we were on a path to try to achieve what we achieved. We always behaved with respect and humility, and that’s what I was doing as a kid It was taught at home. Seize the opportunity, do it with your heart, and there are many talented people who will keep going, because it also requires hard work and some luck.”

Try until you succeed:

“I always do everything possible to stay healthy and enjoy it. The only way to find your goals is to fight and eventually things will happen. The road is hard and you will fall a lot, but eventually what is going to happen will happen. You can’t always Win, it’s part of life, there are difficult moments and it happens to anyone at work. You have to get up and try again, you have to always give your best to achieve it. If you do, the result is times need.”

If I have to repeat a match: “Things happen because they have to happen, and I don’t regret all the journey I’ve been on. I’m lucky, there’s a lot of joy, there’s also sadness, but still the sting of the 2014 World Cup final, I can draw a little bit of this World Cup, haha.

Goal or assist? “The goal in the World Cup final is the best, we can all say that, haha. “Sometimes the pass is more beautiful than the goal, and I am very happy to do that. “