Ten years, in a person's short life, is undoubtedly a very long period of time.

Over the past decade, from home to training base, from training base to Camp Nou, Messi's trajectory in this rainy Mediterranean port city has always been inseparable from these three places.

He doesn't like nightlife like Brazilian players, nor does he pursue fashionable life and taste like Pique. He likes to be low-key, likes to stay in his own home, live a simpler life.

Of course, he will indulge, and it is ridiculous to indulge in it, but that is too rare for him, because in his heart, he is a person with inferiority complex. Although he seems very confident now, he can even openly discuss his past inferiority complex in the media, in fact, this emotion always affects him and may be with him for the rest of his life.

Walking from Camp Nou to La Macia training camp, along this road covered by shade, looking at La Macia inside through a barbed wire, Messi seemed to have returned to the scene ten years ago. At that time, he was also standing in his current position, looking at the training of the players in the barbed wire through this barbed wire.

Pique, Fabregas, Iniesta... They were all here at that time, and a group of little ghosts were playing with the ball with interest. Looking at the new short boy, Messi's instinctive reaction was to lower his head and feel ashamed of himself.

He comes from Argentina, which has been in a slump after the economic collapse. He dreamed of playing football since childhood than the training of this group of peers. The facilities are much worse. The expressions of this group of peers are much more confident than him and their health is better than him. This makes him a little scared and dare not step into the barbed wire.

Although Barcelona's training base has been moved to the San Juan despi area in the west of the city, where a five-star luxury training base has been established, Messi still comes here from time to time because he has his memories here.

That year, he was 13 years old and was only 1.4 meters tall. When he was 11 years old, he was diagnosed with developmental hormone deficiency. It would directly hinder the growth of bones, so his father took him away from his hometown to Barcelona, ​​Spain for help.

Lexacci's leadership of Barcelona did not bring much honor, but he has brought Barcelona the greatest contribution in the past decade, that is, he retained Messi, who came to Spain for medical treatment at that time. Now this player has become the most outstanding superstar in the world.

But unfortunately, a few months later, Messi will no longer belong to Barcelona from now on!

Messi stood outside the barbed wire, silently looking inside the barbed wire. After a while, a group of children will come here to play football and train. They are all the future of Barcelona. Perhaps a second Messi will appear among those children, and each child is full of affection and love for this club.

Once upon a time, Messi was like them, simply hoping to play football for Barcelona for the rest of his life. At that time, his wish was very simple. As long as he had the salary to support himself and his family, he would be willing to fight for Barcelona for the rest of his life until he retired.

But as time accumulates and as temperament matures, the old youthful and ignorant innocence gradually fades away, and it is replaced by mature reality. He is very clear that professional football is about reality. Only reality can protect himself, protect his family, and protect his future in the cruel professional football world.

Nowadays, he no longer makes a promise of loyalty to any club or person in his heart as he did in the past, because he knows that in the field of professional football, there are many times when loyalty is not a virtue, on the contrary, loyalty will become a stumbling block.

He was willing to stay in Barcelona, ​​but that was when Barcelona didn't need him to leave!

Barcelona now needs him to leave, and if he wants to have a better future, he also needs to leave, so he didn't hesitate and chose to leave, but this does not mean that he is not grateful to Barcelona. On the contrary, his feelings for this club will not change!

He also knows that it is easy to say, but it is difficult to do!

When he learned that he had left Barcelona and turned to Real Madrid, Barcelona fans would definitely go crazy. They would treat him as a traitor and humiliate and curse him wantonly. He had no way to tell what he could do, so he could only choose to bear it and then use his own way to prove his feelings for the club.

Just like Batistuta's feelings for Florence, one day they will understand!

Thinking of this, Messi's hand holding the barbed wire hurt a little. He let go and saw a trace of red marks, which made him smile bitterly, then looked at Lamacia deeply, turned around and walked towards the Camp Nou Stadium.

Just this morning, club chairman Rossell personally called Messi's father and informed the latter that the club had reached a secret agreement with Real Madrid, hoping that Jorge would find time to come to Madrid and discuss Messi's contract with Real Madrid. The transfer will take place after the summer transfer market opens on July 1.

The specific joining time will be determined by Real Madrid!

Messi was mentally prepared, but when he received the notification from his father, he was still stunned. The training class throughout the morning seemed very disappointed and boring. Bilanova seemed to have received the news that he had given him an afternoon holiday and asked him to make some adjustments during the holiday.

After wearing the Barcelona jersey for ten years, he hated Real Madrid for ten years. But one day, he wanted to wear Real Madrid jersey for fighting Barcelona, ​​which made Messi feel like he was in a trance, as if it was two completely different lives.

"Why are you here too?" someone called him in front.

Messi, who had a low head, raised his head and found that it was Iniesta, and he was dressed in casual clothes. He looked at himself again and smiled bitterly for no reason, "Like you, it's on vacation!"

In a word, both of them were tacit!

"It feels very strange, right?" Iniesta said with a wry smile on the street.

Messi looked ahead with no expression. He looked a little demented, "I will accept it!"

"We are all professional players, playing football is just a job and a profession for us!" Iniesta suddenly turned his head and looked at Messi, "I originally thought you had seen it very hard, but I didn't expect..."

At that time, Messi also had a lot of disputes with the club in order to increase his salary, and Jorge even slapped Laporta on the table, so many people think that Messi is a very professional player. He is also loyal to Barcelona, ​​but he is not so loyal that he can do everything.

"After all, here, in this city, I have been wearing a Barcelona jersey for 10 years!" Messi raised his head and looked at the building on the side of the road. The style was very familiar, because he knew everything about this city very well, after all, he had been watching it for a full ten years.

Even the feeling this city gives him is that he grew up here since he was a child!

"I'm just like you. I came to Barcelona when I was 13 years old, but before that, I almost went to Real Madrid!" Iniesta said with a smile, but there was no sign of happiness in his smile. "I didn't expect to go around and go back to the starting point, and I went back to Real Madrid!"

The two of them strolled on the street, ignoring the eyes and attention of passers-by, and walked forward silently, thinking about their own thoughts, and then sat down under the sun umbrella in front of a cafe on the street. They ordered two cups of coffee.

"Are you a little scared?" Iniesta saw Messi's hand tapping gently on the glass table, with a little rhythm.

Messi smiled slightly and shook his head, "There's nothing to be afraid of!"

Iniesta said nothing. He saw Messi joining Barcelona with his own eyes, and he also watched Messi enter La Macia with his own eyes. He knew very well what kind of person Messi was at that time. He was definitely not the world's top superstar like this now. He was just a shy and looked very inferior.

One of the feelings of all the little devils in the Catalonian region at that time was when would this little dwarf from Argentina leave?

Xenophobia is definitely not just an adult in Catalonia. Under the influence of the eyes, the children they have cultivated also have a strong xenophobia. For example, Pique, this rich second generation is very xenophobia and hates Castians.

When Iniesta came to La Masia, he actually suffered a lot of this emotion, so he could understand Messi's feelings.

Sometimes inferiority complex is not a bad thing. On the contrary, in many cases, inferiority complex can make a person become persistent, hardworking, and unprecedentedly strong. Of course, it may also become very arrogant. However, Messi has been well evacuated by the cultural courses of Barcelona's youth training system since childhood.

"I'm thinking..." Messi was silent for a while, spoke again, looking at Iniesta, and a light flashed through his eyes, "...Are we going to Real Madrid like this?"

Iniesta was slightly stunned, not very clear, “What does it mean?”

Messi leaned against the back of the seat and looked up at the sky with his head tilted, as if he was muttering to himself, but Iniesta could hear it.

"I mean, are we going to Real Madrid as losers?"

Iniesta was stunned. He had never thought about this meaning, but after hearing Messi's words, he couldn't help but think.

"In the past five years, we have performed very badly. We have never won even a championship trophy. We are always empty-handed. We are a complete loser. We lose, lose everything, and even lose with confidence!" Messi looked a little indignant.

But whenever he thinks of last season's Champions League final, he is really convinced!

In that game, Yang Cheng's Real Madrid completely defeated them, and everyone was convinced, because Real Madrid was indeed unparalleled. I believe that everyone at that time, as long as they were players who still had some pursuit of football, would have such an idea in their hearts. What would it be like if I could play football in this team?

But being convinced does not mean that they have to admit defeat, and it does not mean that they have to surrender to the winner as losers and ask for the winners to be accommodated. That is unacceptable for Messi.

"If we were to Real Madrid like this, what would everyone think of us?" Messi looked at Iniesta.

The latter's mouth twitched slightly. He wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything, but his eyes were somewhat different from what he had just now.

"That team has a group of the most outstanding super geniuses in the world. That team has the cruelest competition in the world. If I want to go to Real Madrid, I must play football, not be on the bench, but if I go to Real Madrid with the title of loser, all I get is ridicule, pity and sympathy!"

Messi shook his head vigorously, "Andrez. I don't need mercy or sympathy, I also hate being ridiculed, so I hope to prove myself, at least, I want to let myself, even when I walk into the training ground in Real Madrid, I can tell them with my head high that I am from Barcelona!"

Iniesta looked at Messi, and suddenly he felt that Messi's originally short figure suddenly seemed to become very tall. This was just a very pure illusion, but he really felt that Messi was different from the one he usually saw.

What's different? He can't tell me, it's just a feeling!

"I love this team. But maybe I will never have the chance to play for him again, so I hope to do my best to help this team win games and win honors in the remaining games!"

Messi closed his hands in front of his mouth and looked at the covered Camp Nou Stadium in front of him with a firm look on his face.

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Some people just say it, but they can't do it, that is a mediocre person with great ambition and talent; but some people can say it, that is a genius, and there is no doubt that Messi belongs to the latter!

After the national team game ended, Barcelona challenged Villarrel away. Messi scored a winning goal for Barcelona in the 77th minute, and it was Iniesta who passed the ball to him.

The drama of savior in danger was once again staged at Stamford Bridge.

In the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals knockout match, Barcelona was visiting Stamford Bridge, Chelsea was waiting for Barcelona, ​​and Mourinho's team curbed Barcelona's offense with strong defense and sharp counterattack.

After Barcelona experienced a debt crisis, the morale of the team was very sluggish, and the players were in a bad state. As soon as Mourinho's team was squeezed, they immediately leaked their bets. In the 43rd and 76th minutes, Chelsea scored two goals in a row.

0:2 behind, Barcelona completely lost the promotion and resistance, but there were only three people who were still stubbornly looking for opportunities on the court. One was the team's captain Puyol, who was the spirit of Barcelona who would never give up; the other two were Messi and Iniesta.

The three players worked hard to find opportunities. Finally, in the 86th minute, Puyol completed a dangerous tackle, and Iniesta passed to Messi. The latter dribbled the ball in a row and broke through three players and cut in. He shot and shot at the front of the penalty area, breaking through Cech's goal, saving a glimmer of hope for Barcelona's promotion.

With a away goal at a critical moment, Barcelona's qualifying flashed again.

Back in the La Liga, Barcelona encountered Almeria at the Camp Nou Stadium. The two sides scored 0:0 in the first half. Barcelona failed to defeat their opponents, but instead conceded the goal in the 48th minute at the beginning of the second half.

Messi, sitting on the bench, took the initiative to find Biranova and asked to play.

In the 67th minute, Messi immediately scored a valuable equalizer goal for Barcelona as soon as he came on the court, but unfortunately, Barcelona finally tied with Almeria 1:1 at home, down from Real Madrid by as many as 9 points and had lost the possibility of winning the championship.

Also at the Camp Nou Stadium, Barcelona ushered in Chelsea's second leg of the Champions League.

Mourinho learned from the first leg and implemented strong marking and confinement on Messi and Iniesta, completely limiting the performance of the two superstars of Barcelona. Other players, except Xavi, did not give them enough support and help, resulting in Barcelona's performance in the entire game being very sluggish and eventually lost 0:1 at the Camp Nou Stadium.

In this way, Chelsea eliminated Barcelona with a total score of 3:1 and successfully advanced to the semi-finals.

After this game, everyone could see Messi's tears, but he ran into the player channel early. Although he was one of the few players in this game that were recognized by fans and professionals, he still could not change the trend of the game with himself and Iniesta.

In another game, Real Madrid was unstoppable, defeating Tottenham Hotspur with a 5-0 home win and 3-0 away win respectively, and advanced to the semi-finals with an invincible attitude.

Manchester United defeated Kaiserslautern with a total score of 4:2 and met Real Madrid in the semi-finals, while Chelsea's opponent defeated Inter Milan of the Donetsk Miners 6:1.

After being eliminated from the Champions League, he returned to the La Liga field, and Barcelona challenged Real Madrid away.

Real Madrid always had the advantage in this game, while Barcelona fought back with a tenacious contraction and defensive counterattack. The two teams played in a dim way, but Real Madrid took the lead in the first half by Ronaldo.

But in the 57th minute, Thiago Silva was injured in the game, and Yang Cheng temporarily replaced Pepe. As a result, Messi scored a sneak attack in the chaos, equalizing the score for Barcelona.

But just when everyone thought Barcelona had the chance to score points, Kaka made the final decision at the critical moment, defeating Barcelona again at the Bernabeu Stadium.

The 2:1 score looks very dangerous, but in fact Real Madrid has the advantage throughout the game, and Barcelona defended very miserably, but after improvement, it is more convenient to use defensive counterattacks than Ranova, especially the arrangement of the three midfielders, which firmly consolidates Barcelona's defense, which also caused some variables to appear in the final of the Copa del Rey three days later.

In addition, Thiago Silva is absent after the game and will miss all games this season due to injury, which also caused Real Madrid to suffer a heavy blow. After all, the Brazilian central defender is the decisive needle on Real Madrid's defense line. If he loses him, Real Madrid's defensive strength will be weakened to a certain extent.

But Yang Cheng still said confidently that Real Madrid will defeat Barcelona in the Copa del Rey final and win the cup again!
Chapter completed!