Lionel Messi, captain of the Argentine team, assured, two days before start of the Copa Américathat his team is the favorite, but that he expects a “very, very close” competition in which the Albiceleste will have to “continue doing the same, even more” to win it again.
“I always said and say that Argentina is the favorite, but well, because of our way of being, we are always the best, we always take things for granted and we took a lot of hits for that. Today we can to say that we are the best, because we are the last world champions, but that does not mean that we are going to win this Copa América walking” in an interview on América TV with the journalist and former president of San Lorenzo, Marcelo Tinelli.
Messi highlighted Ecuador, which “has a generation of very good kids, who know well what they want and are intense” and also put Colombia, Uruguay and Brazil in the group of favorites. “That’s why I say it’s going to be a very, very close America’s Cup. And the good thing about us is that the group knows it and is aware that we’re going to have to continue doing the same thing, even more, to win again.” , he highlighted.
The Argentine captain highlighted the good atmosphere that exists in the group of players called up by Lionel Scaloni, which has been helped by the conquest of three titles (Copa América, Finalissima and World Cup), because “having achieved everything we achieved In this short time it gives you peace of mind. It gives you something as it is.”
Messi, who once again insisted that his participation depends on how he feels about the entire process until 2026, admitted that winning the world It was “revenge” after losing the final in 2014.
“I was always grateful for the love I received throughout my career. And it was like everyone wanted it to end that way, that I couldn’t leave football without being world champion. And well, thank God it was possible.” give and for me I have crowned everything and I have achieved much more than I dreamed of when I started, because I never imagined that I would experience everything,” he highlighted.
“I think that everything happens for a reason and that everything is written. For me, if it has to be, it will be and it will be that now. And it is marked and God had kept in mind that it had to be this way and that is why passed”. he added she.
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