Former Barcelona striker Leo Messi has assured, in an interview to the newspaper ‘Sport’, that both he and his family miss the Catalan capital very much and that his desire is to return one day and return to live in his home in Castelldefels.
“We miss Barcelona very much. The kids all the time, and my wife, we talk about Barcelona, the idea of going back to live there. We have our house, everything, so that’s what we want,” he says.
Relive his happiest days
Messi, who was interviewed by the aforementioned newspaper two weeks ago in Miami, was in Barcelona this Sunday and paid a surprise visit to the new Spotify Camp Nou.
The ’10’, now at Inter Miami, still remembers his time as a Azulgrana with a lot of nostalgia:
“The truth is that I miss all those moments very much. Maybe I enjoy it more now than when things were happening; you live them much more.”
Of his time at Barça, “the first sixteam with Guardiola, which was extraordinary, and the last Champions League with Luis Enrique”.
And above all with the affection of the fans, which he still feels four and a half years after he had to say goodbye.
“It’s spectacular. When I hear things from Barcelona, from the people, from a period like the one we lived through, I always feel a bit nostalgic and very emotional,” he says.
He has not yet healed his farewell to Barcelona
Messi feels that the abrupt departure of the club of his life, which did not renew his contract in the summer of 2021 citing a lack of financial capacity, left an open wound that has not yet fully healed.
“I was left with a strange feeling after I left, because of how it all turned out, because of how I ended up playing my last years without people, because of the pandemic.”
“After all the life I had been there, I didn’t leave the way I imagined, the way I dreamed.”
“But well, I think the affection of the people will always be there, for everything we’ve been through,” Messi said.
In spite of everything, the Rosarino star is happy “to be part of this club, to have arrived as a child and to have grown up and made his whole life in Barcelona”.
“I am grateful to God for having taken me there when I was a child and also, with the birth of my children in the city and with the whole club and the city in general, because I left as a child, grew up and spent my whole life there,” he says.
He will continue as long as he enjoys soccer
However, his return to Barcelona will still have to wait, as he is not planning to retire yet:
“The moment I see that I’m not physically fit, that it’s hard for me on the court or that I don’t enjoy it, it will be the moment to stop, but today I enjoy it, I feel good and that’s what we’re doing.
In addition, next summer Messi will face his sixth World Cup, a tournament that, for him, “will be special after winning it”.
He aspires to arrive in conditions to compete at the maximum.
“I don’t want to be, quote unquote, a burden. I want to feel good physically, to be sure that I can help and contribute to the group,” he says.
With information from EFE
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