Messi Is Phenomenal On And Off The Pitch – Di Maria

Argentina forward, Angel Di Maria has come out to admit that playing with Lionel Messi is the best thing that happened in his career. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, creating a friendship with Messi over the years has been a beautiful experience, and the little genius is simply phenomenal on and off the pitch.

Di Maria added that he once thanked Lionel for letting him enjoy playing football alongside him.

His words, “Playing with Messi was the best thing that happened to me in my career. It’s the best thing, and after so many years, to create a friendship… the little guy is phenomenal on and off the pitch. I had that chance and I told him after my last game at PSG, ‘thank you for letting me live all this with you’. When he left Barcelona, Lean (Paredes) and I told him to come and play with us. It never happened that I would go to Barcelona, but all I wanted was to live it with him. Having him every day during that year was something different. It was the icing on the cake for me.”

WOW.

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).