That’s the opinion of Argentine star Leandro Paredes. Leandro Paredes, who won the World Cup with Lionel Messi in 2022, has revealed that the Barcelona legend once ignored him for months after a Champions League match.
Leandro Paredes won the World Cup with Argentina with Messi in 2022 and the pair were also team-mates at Paris Saint-Germain, but the midfielder has now explained that the eight-time Ballon d’Or winner completely ignored him for three months after a Champions League match.
During PSG’s win over Barcelona in 2021, Paredes said something to a Messi teammate that Messi apparently overheard. Despite Paredes’ attempts to explain the situation, Messi refused to speak to him for three months.
“We didn’t speak to each other for about three months. Messi refused to talk to me, I had a terrible time,” Paredes told Infobae, “I sent Lionel Messi a message the next day, I sent him another message 15 days later, I told him: ‘It’s not because of you, it’s not an insult. ‘
And Lionel Messi didn’t answer. He didn’t answer me for three months. Three months passed without saying anything. I thought: ‘Now I have to see how he reacts.’ We arrived at the Argentina training base on the same day. I arrived a little early and he appeared in my room. I was brushing my teeth. It was very early, and he threw water on me and said: ‘Why are you up so early?’
Leandro Paredes previously revealed Messi “wanted to kill me” after the incident, but added that the pair now “talk about it and laugh.” Leandro Paredes told Caja Negra in 2022: “Lionel Messi was angry because I commented on his teammates. Messi heard me and he got angry.
Lionel Messi was really angry. He disappointed me. It was terrible. He wanted to kill me, I wanted to go home. Then I saw him in the Argentina national team and he acted like nothing happened.
Lionel Messi showed me what kind of person he is. The relationship continued like that. Now, when we talk about it, we talk about it and laugh, but at that time Lionel Messi was really angry, he wanted to kill me!”.
