I Wonder if a few players have experienced being star strucked when they have had the first day in Barcelona and met Lionel Messi in the locker room?
The scenario requires no great imagination to imagine.
And it is actually a feeling as Lionel Messi himself has tried to have.
It tells the argentine superstar, who has been named the world’s best footballer six times, to the French L’Equipe.
before he took the world – at least in the world of football – he was a young, shy guy.
The expression, as the French Thierry Henry in 2007 switched to Barcelona from Arsenal.
“The first day, he came into the locker room, dare I not look at him,” said Lionel Messi, who was 20 years old when Henry arrived to the Camp Nou as one of football’s major stars.
“I knew of everything he had done in England. I had made a picture of him up in the head, and suddenly we were there on the same team.”
And the little argentine wizard does not hide that it was a great experience for him to play alongside Thierry Henry.
“This, I felt for the Titi (Henry’s nickname, red.), was perhaps a kind of admiration.”
“I loved Henry. The easy way to complete an action on how he ran towards the goal and finished. He gave the impression that the whole thing was so natural,” says Messi.
Lionel Messi and Thierry Henry went on to play together for three seasons in Barcelona, before the frenchman went on to New York Red Bulls, where he ended his career.
