We need to talk about the way in which Leo Messi’s role has reversed between FC Barcelona and the Argentina National Team.
Throughout Leo Messi’s entire career, he’s been living a dual life between FC Barcelona and the Argentina National Team. The only title he ever won for his country was the 2008 summer Olympics. Whereas Barcelona gave him everything a footballer can possibly imagine throughout his professional career.
By looking at the results he’s been getting lately with both teams, we can sense the pattern shifting. Where he had everything, Leo suddenly has nothing and he suffers everyday. FC Barcelona is a club in complete shambles that doesn’t seem to have a solution any time soon. President Josep Maria Bartomeu doesn’t seem to care about the institution with every decision hurting the club’s future.
Barça is about to go into a literal recession by attempting to cut 30% of everybody’s wages. Leo will have to negotiate the most amicable way for both sides to remain content. We won’t say that things can’t get any worse for the Argentine at FC Barcelona, but only because it’s 2020. There’s no way we will tempt fate in such a fashion. Although he still isn’t hated at his club, we know how quickly love can change in football.
Leo finally smiles with Argentina.
Contrary to what’s happening in Barcelona, Messi now goes back to his home country to find his smile again. We already got a glimpse of a different player during the 2019 Copa America. A more involved captain who even got the courage to stand up to the powers that be and risk a suspension. Every time we see him in Ezeiza, Leo gets that smile back because he knows the future is bright for Argentina.
They no longer depend only on his talent to fight for trophies and this added pressure is no longer there. Ever since he started playing for his national team, Messi had never won a match in La Paz against Bolivia. The gurus and pundits from Argentina will make up any excuse to diminish Messi’s achievement but the dominance was unquestionable.
To start the Conmebol World Cup Qualifiers with two convincing victories is the ideal way for Messi to return to Barcelona with a smile. None of us had seen Leo this happy in a long time. He knows the team is working and he knows there are chances to fight for titles over the next couple of years. To see the way things have changed so drastically on both fronts is almost poetic.
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