Ex Barcelona player, Juliano Belletti has come out to say that Lionel Messi was already so good as a teenager. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, Messi was already showing crazy potential at a very young age that he couldn’t even land a kick on him in training.
Belletti added that it was definitely not a normal situation to see a player that good come from the academy and go straight into our team.
His words, “When I first trained against Messi, I had never heard of him,”
“[Andres] Iniesta came and asked me if I knew who Messi was and Iniesta warned me to be careful because he is good.”
“He said ‘be careful’ to me during the best time of my career. I was in my prime! But when he received the ball in training, he didn’t care who he was playing against. It just happened to be me that time.”
“The one-v-one, when I was even thinking about trying to tackle him, I found he had already beaten me. It was simply like that… I tried to kick him but I couldn’t. I couldn’t get him.”
“It was definitely not a normal situation to see a player that good come from the academy and go straight into our team.”
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