Valdano: "Argentina continues to put all of their problems on Messi, we have to demand from the entire team."
“I don’t know anyone in Argentina that could convince Messi to continue to play for the national team.”
"We're country which always focus on providential personalities. In football there was Maradona and now Messi. Its not fair."
"We (Argentina) ask Messi alone to provide what we should ask from the whole team."
"This was the tournament in which Messi has played best, but because of frustrations he has ended up exhausted, with nothing left."
"In every tournament, best player [for Argentina] was Messi. It is not fair that all the frustration focuses on him. It's not easy"
"Fans and pundits in Argentina expecte Messi to play for national team just as he does for Barcelona, but that is not realistic."
"It's impossible because in Argentina his number are totally different. With Barca he touches the ball 60 times, with Argentina 30."
"And those touches are not with the same collective backing as Messi has at Barca. "
"Messi is a winner who has not won & Argentina is an implacable country with him. So I am not surprised that he had this outburst."
"Messi could revert his decision? "I am not so sure. My feeling is Messi finished the game with an immense weight on his shoulders."
"Messi got rid of the weight [of NT] with these comments to the press. He liberated himself from this weight by saying goodbye."
"I don't know who in Argentina can convince Messi to return. There is not one person who has that credibility or influence."
"There will be a social movement in solidarity with Messi's pain & that could move him. But we must wait a certain amount of time."
"In Argentina, politics & football, we look for one providential person [to save day]. They're forgiven everything but failure."
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"Winning is an important thing, but to have your own style, to have people copy you, to admire you, that is the greatest gift.” © Johan Cruyff
Copa América 2016, კოპა ამერიკა-2016 ერთიანი თემა
