Lionel Messi mentioned he believes his former FC Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola has turned Manchester Metropolis into essentially the most enticing workforce to look at, however he conceded Actual Madrid are the perfect “by way of outcomes.”
Guardiola guided Metropolis to a document fourth successive Premier League title one yr after main his workforce to win a historic treble — Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup.
LaLiga winners Actual Madrid beat Metropolis within the quarterfinals of the Champions League en path to lifting their fifteenth European Cup on June 1.
Requested who he considers to be the perfect workforce on the planet, Messi advised Infobae: “In the event you converse by way of outcomes, it’s [Real] Madrid, the present Champions [League] holders.
“In the event you converse by way of play, I personally like Guardiola’s Metropolis. I believe that any workforce the place Guardiola is might be particular due to the best way he’s, the best way he trains, the best way he works and the way he makes his groups play.
“On the stage of play for me, Metropolis is the perfect, and by way of outcomes, Madrid.”
Below Guardiola, Messi received 14 titles at Barça, together with three LaLiga trophies, two Champions League and two FIFA Membership World Cups.
Messi is presently coaching with Argentina’s nationwide workforce in Miami.
The Inter Miami ahead will captain the Albiceleste on the upcoming Copa América that might be staged in the US from June 20 till July 14.
The 2022 World Cup winners are the present Copa América holders.
“I believe that Argentina is all the time favorite,” Messi mentioned. “When a event begins, be it a World Cup, Copa América or no matter, Argentina is a candidate identical to Brazil and extra so on this Copa América. However I believe that at the moment the South American groups are very sturdy.
“Uruguay is superb, as is Colombia and Ecuador. Afterwards it turns into very troublesome to play all of the video games, however I believe it is going to be a really levelled Copa América.”
Messi, 36, admitted that profitable the World Cup has given him a way of success however life has gone on as regular.
“Clearly having received and having achieved all the pieces at nationwide stage, it’s completely different expertise, there’s one other peace of thoughts,” he mentioned. “Being world champion felt for me like feeling fulfilled. I achieved all the pieces, I used to be in a position to obtain the objectives and desires I had.
“It is like all the pieces modified, however on the similar time nothing modified.
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“Sure, we achieved the objective, and clearly it was what we wished essentially the most, me, my household and everybody.
“However then life goes on. I needed to proceed in Paris at [Paris Saint-Germain] , [then] I needed to stay right here [in Miami] and proceed attempting to attain issues, to win.
“Now now we have one other problem with the nationwide workforce, which is to have the ability to attempt to win the Copa América.”
Messi, whose contract with Inter Miami expires in December 2025, has not given a sign as to when he’ll retire from the nationwide workforce.
Argentinians are hopeful that Messi will play on the 2026 World Cup that might be performed in the US, Mexico and Canada.
“It is determined by how I really feel, on how I’m bodily,” Messi admitted.
“I’ve to be practical with myself. And know if I’m as much as the duty of with the ability to compete and assist the teammates subsequent to me. There may be a while left, and I do not understand how I might be at that second.
“Age can also be a actuality that’s there, though it’s a quantity, and the video games that I’m going to play [at Inter Miami] are usually not the identical as those I performed once I was in Europe. … However it should rely upon how I really feel, what I really feel once I’m subsequent to my teammates and see if I am nonetheless as much as par or not.”
