USMNT defender, Sergino Dest has come out to say that he feels proud to have played alongside Lionel Messi. He, however, revealed that the Argentine lost his feeling of fun at Barcelona, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, Messi was no longer the guy who created a good atmosphere in the Barcelona dressing room when he first joined the club, and it was all down to Barca struggles on and off the pitch.
Dest added that playing with Messi was surreal because he only used to see him on YouTube and in video games.
His words, “Messi, of course. You see him on YouTube, in video games… and suddenly he’s there, in front of you. There was a good atmosphere in the dressing room the first year, he made jokes… then that changed and that feeling of fun was lost a bit.”
On a potential La Liga return, “Yes! I hope so. I am very happy and very grateful at PSV, but I am ambitious and of course I would like to play in one of the five major leagues in Europe again. I think I have the level for it and with hard work and consistency I think I can achieve it, without a doubt. I don’t know what will happen, but I would like to return to La Liga in the future.”
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Lionel Andrés Messi, also known as Leo Messi, is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for and captains both Major League Soccer club Inter Miami and the Argentina national team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Messi has won a record seven Ballon d’Or awards and a record six European Golden Shoes, and in 2020 he was named to the Ballon d’Or Dream Team.
Until leaving the club in 2021, he had spent his entire professional career with Barcelona, where he won a club-record 35 trophies, including ten La Liga titles, seven Copa del Rey titles and the UEFA Champions League four times.
With his country, he won the 2021 Copa América and the 2022 FIFA World Cup. A prolific goalscorer and creative playmaker, Messi holds the records for most goals in La Liga (474), most hat-tricks in La Liga (36) and the UEFA Champions League (eight), and most assists in La Liga (192) and the Copa América (17).
He also has the most international goals by a South American male (103). Messi has scored over 800 senior career goals for club and country, and has the most goals by a player for a single club (672).
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