Soccer tipsters Pablo Zabaleta: I like the evil Messi - reminds Maradona. Argentina under pressure, because failure will be the end of Leo`s dream
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Pablo Zabaleta spoke about the mood of Lionel Messi at the 2022 World Cup.
I liked Messi`s reaction at the end - his celebration and conversation with van Gaal, no matter what he said to him. We like to see an evil Messi. He reminded me a bit of Diego Maradona and that`s not bad when you`re trying to win the World Cup.
Messi is the leader of a team that has a lot of young players coming to this tournament via insider football websites for the first time. In all the photos, all the other players of the national team look like his bodyguards. Even on the field, everyone seems to be fighting for Messi and protecting him. I played with him, and therefore I know that he constantly feels that he must set the standard and lead by example. And I also know that he must be enjoying every minute of this World Cup because he knows that everyone is on his side.
Messi has always been the main player - that was the case in 2014 when I was in the team that reached the World Cup final. But then he was 27, and now he is 35. The difference is that this is his last chance. The last dance, if you will. It makes everything feel more urgent. This can be seen in the game of the team.
Everything will be more special if Messi finally wins the World Cup. But at the same time, the team is under a lot of pressure because of what a failure can mean this time. Because it will be the end of Messi`s dream, ` Zabaleta wrote in a column for the BBC.
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