The former soccer player born in Argentina but naturalized Spanish made some controversial statements about Lionel Messi.
The former Spanish-Argentine soccer player Mariano Pernia revived the controversy about what would have happened if Lionel Messi I chose to play for the Spain teamas the Spanish intended, and ensured that the star had won at least two World Cups.
The former defender who chose to represent the Spanish team, gave an interview in the last few hours where he assured that the current world champion had won the World Cup 2010 as part of the team that was consecrated in South Africa 2010and that they would also have repeated the title in Brazil 2014where Argentina lost the final against Germany in extra time.
“In Argentina there was a time when we did not deserve to have Messi with the national team because he was criticized a lot. It was even asked that he not go to the World Cup. After the World Cup, which was lost on penalties, it was asked that Messi no longer go and it was crazy”said Pernia to flashscore.
“I told everyone here: ‘If Messi had chosen to play for Spain he would already have two World Cups.’ Without a doubt, the one that Spain won (2010) with Messi would have won the same and the next one too, because he was in the best moment. That was my reading: if Messi had chosen to play for Spain, he would have won two World Cups in his early days.”he assured.
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Furthermore, he expressed himself regarding the history of Messi in the World Cups with the Argentine national team: “If it were due to personal merit, he should have arrived in the first World Cup he played in or in the second.”
Subsequently, Pernia praised the progress that the man from Rosario had during his career: “In the beginning you saw that, out there, it was a little difficult for him to define because he kicked hard and then, the following year, he began to place it on a little side and he was already a scorer, apart from being an assistant “At two or three years old he started kicking free kicks, but he didn’t shoot them.”
And about his career, he closed: “He never stops wanting to grow and wanting to learn, even though from the outside it seems like he knows everything. It was perfected year after year. He added things, he did not relax at any time knowing that he was the best in the world. “That’s how it became what it is today: the greatest in all of history.”
Source: Ambito
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