Messi leaves; He leaves and, for years, he will be the mirror of every novelty: well, this could be the new Messi. But very soon he will stop being who he always was. Very soon—a few months, a year—the media will no longer talk about him every day, the millions of us will no longer talk about him every day: something important will have to happen to him—going to the beach with his children, having dinner with his wife—for us to name him. It will be a brutal change: his life was that we look at him and comment on him, that we envy him and venerate him for more than 20 years, when he was 16 or 17. It is going to be strange for him to live a little far from us; It will be strange for us to live almost without him. Weird, and we’ll get used to it. We will miss him when things go wrong. We will watch his goals on YouTube less and less. We will forget it.
World Cup 2026 Special
This profile is part of the monographic issue of ‘El País Semanal’ dedicated to the Soccer World Cup that is published this June 7.
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