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The headline of the Catalan newspaper Sport is printed: “Calvário”. There is no shortage of ways of trying to translate the Barça moment and, the main one, what Lionel Messi lives in his probable “last dance” with the club’s shirt.
The last night to be forgotten was yesterday. With the worst start in decades in Spanish, Barça was at least the only one with a 100% success rate in the Champions League. They could lose 2-0 to Juventus, at the Camp Nou, which would be the first of their group. He lost 3 to 0.
Barça’s agony is not even winning anything this season, which seems like an illusion at the moment. The agony is seeing the team play worse and worse, and Messi, increasingly discouraged. The Argentine can sign a contract with any club from January or he can wait for the Barça elections to define his future.
How to make Messi happy again? Is there a way Has the historic Messi-Barça relationship just not ended?
Cristiano Ronaldo was more malleable in his career, so much so that yesterday, when he played his 36th match against the Argentine, he wore a different third shirt. The Portuguese’s trajectory was guided by cycles, without becoming too attached to a club.
He appeared at Sporting and left early for Manchester United. There he won everything, he was in a huge club, where he could have spent his whole life. But I wanted to wear the Real Madrid shirt, it was a child’s dream, and that’s what he did. He won it all, broke records, became the biggest jersey 7 in club history and … tired. He did not hesitate and went to Juventus, trying to win a European title that Vecchia Signora has not won since 1996.
When he didn’t like what he was seeing at Juve, he almost sent himself to PSG. But he ended up staying. And yesterday’s 3-0 victory at Camp Nou should mark the start of the second leg of a so far bizarre season for Juve. Cristiano Ronaldo looks for titles, looks for opportunities, looks for records, looks for different pens to write the book of his history.
Perhaps he can be an inspiration for Messi, who must be full of doubts about staying or leaving. About trying to participate in another reconstruction or looking for a new life experience, already at 33 years old.
Joy and fulfillment are eternal pursuits for all of us. We never know where to find them, but we owe it to ourselves to at least try.
Perhaps chapter 36 of the Messi-Cristiano duels was the last. Perhaps seeing your nemesis’ new adventure up close will inspire you to change. Cristiano Ronaldo is there to show that it is never early, it is never late, the important thing is the search. The time has come for Messi to decide how and where to look for something else. Neither he wants nor we want to see him sink into the test every two weeks.
