Leo Messi has not forgotten Barcelona, just as the Catalan fans have not forgotten the Argentine star. The Inter Miami striker gave an interview to the newspaper Sport where he looks back on his time at the club as well as his present and future. The international admitted that he saw himself playing for Barcelona all his life and expressed his intention to live in the Catalan capital again. As for the World Cup next summer, he confirmed that he is very excited but left his presence up in the air. Love from the Culers Messi's emotional video breaks Barcelona hearts "It's spectacular. All the things that come to me from Barcelona, from the people, from a period like that which we have lived, always makes me a little nostalgic. And very emotional." Memories "I really miss all those moments. Maybe I enjoy it more now than at the time when things were happening, because of the day-to-day dynamics and what it meant to play match after match and think about the next match without being able to enjoy what we were doing. Today, seeing it more calmly and more relaxed, from afar, after a couple of years have passed, you live it much more". People do not forget him. "I had a strange feeling after I left, because of how everything happened, because of how I ended up playing my last years without people, because of the pandemic. After all the time I had been there, I didn't leave as I imagined, as I dreamed. I imagined, as I said, playing my whole career in Europe, in Barcelona and then yes, to come here as I did, because it was my thought, what I wanted. And well, it was a bit strange the farewell also, for the situation, for everything. But hey, I think the affection of the people will always be there, for what I said, for everything we have been through." Happiest moment "It's difficult to choose one. Thank God I was lucky enough to live many moments. The first sextet with Guardiola was extraordinary, the last Champions League with Luis Enrique too. I don't know, it's difficult to choose a moment." The first sextet with Guardiola was extraordinary, the last Champions League with Luis Enrique too Leo Messi Happiness is not just about titles. If you only look at victories, what do you take away? "Being part of this club, having arrived as a child and having grown up and spent my whole life in Barcelona. I am grateful to God for having taken me to that place 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. There are many things, not only in the club, but in the city with what I have to stay". Do you follow Barcelona now? "Yes, yes, obviously, and more so because there are several of us who are now together and we always comment, we talk about all the situations that happen in the club and the results and the game." I follow Barcelona and more so now that there are several of us who are now together and we always comment, we talk about all the situations that happen in the club and the results and the game Leo Messi Barcelona, Paris and Miami. "It seems that Paris was hell and it wasn't like that either. When I say that I didn't have a good time, it's because I didn't feel good about what I was doing and what I like to do, playing football, the day-to-day, the training, the matches, but because I didn't feel good about myself. But afterwards, the truth is that we had a very good experience as a family, the city is spectacular, we enjoyed it. It was the first time we left Barcelona and it was all new for us and that's why it was very difficult too, because it wasn't an injury but it just happened that way. But the truth is that I didn't feel good in the day to day with what I like to do. And here, yes, we are fine, we enjoy the city, the day to day." MLS "We enjoy more of the family, the kids, being able to come to training, being able to accompany them to games, being much more time in the day to day at home, getting home and not thinking so much about football and think more about something else. And that also makes you live in a different way because it happened to me many times that the result and the day to day controlled my mood a little bit and well, sometimes I came home in a bad mood and it was different, so we are fine here." Here we enjoy more of the family, the kids, the day-to-day at home, arriving home and not thinking so much about football and thinking more about something else Leo Messi Motivation "What I like is to play soccer and compete. I don't like to lose and every time I go out on the field I go in to win, or try to. I like to compete." Alba and Busquets "It was really strange, especially Jordi's situation because we didn't expect it. With Busi, we had been talking about it more. But yes, it's a pity because beyond what we enjoy on the pitch, we are also friends. We started this challenge of coming to Miami from the beginning together. Well, they also see that there is less and less time left and the moment is approaching for everything because we are from the same generation, we did our whole career together and to have been able to share the last few years together was also very nice." World Cup "It's special to play with the national team and even more so in important, official competitions and even more so what a World Cup means and after having won it as well. But a little bit of what I was saying, I don't want to be in quotes a burden, I want to feel good physically, to be sure that I can help and contribute things to the group, to the squad. Our season is different from that in Europe. We are going to have a preseason in between, few games until the World Cup date and see day by day if I really feel good physically to be as I would like to be and be able to participate." I really want to go back, we miss Barcelona a lot Leo Messi Message to the fans "I really want to go there, we miss Barcelona a lot, the kids all the time, and my wife, we talk about things in Barcelona, the idea of living there again. I really want to go back to the stadium when it is finished because since I went to Paris I did not return to the Camp Nou and then they went to Montjuic. It will be strange to return to the new stadium and it will be exciting to relive and remember everything that was that, beyond that it is different the stadium. Grateful for the love as always and nothing more than thanks."
