“He was looking at him like he was a soccer god” – Agent who brought Lionel Messi to Barcelona on how Argentine star looked up to ex-Barca midfielder. Lionel Messi used to look up to Juan Román Riquelme, according to Josep Minguella, the agent who brought him to Barcelona. He remembered a time when the PSG star was a teenager and first met the Argentine superstar.
According to INFOBAE, Minguella disclosed that Messi continued gazing up at Riquelme as if he were God while seated at the base of a table. He thinks the 2022 FIFA World Cup victor idolized the legendary Boca Juniors player.
“He was looking at him like he was a soccer god” – Agent who brought Lionel Messi to Barcelona on how Argentine star looked up to ex-Barca midfielder
Messi also claimed that he was angry with the pre-match comments from Van Gaal and was quoted by GOAL saying:
“I was angry about the pre-match because I think that a coach like Van Gaal, with the experience he has, with the games he has played throughout his career and that he spoke in the way he did, that he disrespected. I think he should not have been like that, it did not make sense.”
Recalling the incident, he told INFOBAE:
