Lionel Messi speaks about the “fear” of retirement and says Inter Miami will be his last club

Messi has confirmed that “right now” he believes Inter Miami will be his last club before he retires.

Joe Brennanj4brennanUpdate: Jun 12th, 2024 13:09 EDT0

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Argentina and Inter Miami forward Lionel Messi has confirmed that he believes his time at the MLS side will be his final stint in club football before retirement.

Speaking with SportsCenter, the World Cup winner said “yes, right now, I believe Inter Miami will be my final club”.

“I think the world is not ready for you to leave football”, said the interviewer, to which Messi replied, “me neither”.

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Messi admits to the ‘fear’ of retiring

“All of my life I’ve done this, played games and enjoyed training. There’s always that fear that it ends, it’s always there. It was tough to leave Europe to come here; the fact I won the World Cup helped me a lot to see things in a different way and I don’t think about”, he added.

Messi admitted that now, at the latter stage of his career, he simply tries “to enjoy myself”, while adding that that’s why I enjoy things more, I know there’s always less time. I have a good time at the club where I’m lucky enough to be with my friends and teammates, the same goes for the national team, I have a lot of friends there. I enjoy the small details, the things that I know that when I don’t play anymore, I’ll miss”.

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