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What will happen when Messi is removed? I will feel immense pain. I have always said that they will have to look for me in a hospital, because I will be depressed. When you have seen what he has done, beyond that there is nothing. You played with Maradona ... I thought that nobody could ever play at that level. But with Messi I fell in love, nobody has excited me so much after Diego. I am a devoted fan of his left-handed and mental speed. We are in full review of the myth of Maradona: the Movistar + documentary about his time at Barça, the Amazon biopic, the Asif Kapadia documentary ... When he came to Barcelona he was very humble, and his life was getting complicated. He is still alive thanks to the ball, although sometimes it is overreached or out of tune. In his time he was named king and that marks. Iniesta would never have been so showy. The sublime Diego was the one with the ball, the other did not ... Although I will always protect him from whoever attacks him. In Argentina they stay with him, no matter how good football Messi does. It is that he takes revenge on England for the Falklands in a World Cup, that is not erased from the heart. But I always tell Argentines to stay with both of them: one marked a time and the other has set a bar that I will never see again. How many years of good football do Messi have left? He has improved. I have asked him to retire with 55, to take a few meters back and play Xavi, to distribute game. But I do not know if he will, because he has the goal inside, his obsession since childhood has always been to put the ball. Is that not natural in any striker? Well, I loved to haggle everyone and give the pass. My obsession was not to mark, but to be the best of the game. A center striker scores two goals and goes to sleep happy, but not me. And Messi is that he makes the game ... and he certifies it! He does things like Jordan, or like Picasso. This season he has scored 50 goals, nobody is in those numbers. How did his classic play, that of holding the ball in the corner to lose time? Thanks to Kubala. He had a gorilla body, muscular. If he turned on his back, nobody took his ball. I was a scumbag, but I dared: it was a giraffe playing as a gorilla. In a training I tried it and it was not taken away because I have long arms. In a game it was a lot of time like that and they endured the result. Against the Standard of Liege, in 1982. It was two minutes and 43 seconds. It was a way to stop time, as is done in basketball. It is a defensive tactic that is no longer used. It is sometimes tried, but it does not work out well because it does not train. We trained her. The effect it has on the opponent is hard, because he can only stop you with kicks, time runs and the result hammers him. What kind of player would have been in modern football? I was an all-time player. I liked to haggle in speed, and the players of my kind are always the most wanted because we break the defensive plots. If football defenses take over, don't count on me. How many players today would have lost both legs with the tickets that were made in the 80s? There are players who didn't kick us unless they threw the boot at us : Cruyff, Gordillo, López Ufarte, Rexach ... We have geolocation, smell the danger and jump. With 15 years I realized that I could jump and avoid the impact. They can catch you in the air, but they don't break a tibia. The kicks are now like before, only before there was more permissiveness.Do you know cases of match-fixing at the time, in the style of the Oikos case? At levels of large competitions, I don't know. Only once as a player did I receive a bonus for winning, being in Barcelona; I didn't like something, but I wasn't a captain and I couldn't say anything. I can not give more data. Now, from second division down ... sure. There are games that are ashamed after 10 minutes. Those who stain football, from Blatter down, must be out. Their game is the pretty game. Bilardist philosophy how do you see it? You play to win. But how do you want to win? To the nutboots, to those who put their legs, to the killers of the football fields, I say they have nothing to do against us. Because even if they win World Cups with catenaccio, where beauty and the ability to fall in love arrive, they will never arrive. The one who comes to hit you does not insult him, but you haggle: with the ball I command. Is the Chiringuito de jugones is journalism? There is a lot of entertainment, lions and hyenas. Josep Pedrerol presented a format in which the journalist could wear his team's shirt, and soccer players and journalists merged with each other. At 12 at night you can not give the news that people already know, you have to give something else. This is the translation to TV of the bar discussion the next day. What team is Pedrerol from? It was from Barça, but it has become more merengue. But I assure you that he is glad for all the good that happens to all clubs and good players. It cannot be from a single team. Are there people who have stopped being from Barcelona because of politics? Yes, I have seen it mostly outside of Barcelona, ​​in congresses of clubs. Barça's anthem says: So much where we come from. And there are people who have felt apart, especially those who live far away. I would not stain the ball with politics, to stay at the polls, although you argue that everyone is a bit of Barça. It happens when players appear who transcend colors. In Madrid, for example, when I talk to fans, 95% are secretly in love with Messi. They can't help it, even if it hurts. Even if they are from Madrid or Atleti, they are also from Messi covertly. How are your holidays? With my wife, whom I am in love with, and on an adventure. But of planned adventure. Last year I visited Hong Kong and this year I will go to Shanghai. And fortunate to have them, because next year there is Eurocup. And I wonder: what do I prefer, holidays or Eurocup?

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