Lionel Messi: From shy genius to 'bad boy' leader – his Qatar transformation
before the match. It was a move that angered his team-mates and added fuel to a historic enmity between the pair.Messi's feelings spilled out in the 73rd minute of the quarter-final. Messi celebrated Argentina's second goal by standing in front of the dugout, cupping his ears to seemingly mock Van Gaal's previous comments.Before though, during Riquelme's solitary season at Barcelona in 2002, the relationship was more one of adulation.
"Messi's delivery was very spontaneous. It has Rosario intonations, it's something someone's grandmother might say.Balague suggested Messi "reacted in a way that, even he himself, did not recognise". And Martinez agreed with Balague in suggesting the change was akin to a child falling in with the wrong crowd at school.
Historically, after such a setback, Messi would spend the least time possible amid the gauntlet of microphones in the media 'mixed zone' players are obliged to walk through."He was saying 'we're better than this'." But Mora y Araujo disagrees with the idea that Messi was channelling, or becoming, Maradona. Rather, he was, perhaps finally, comfortable in his own skin - a far cry fromor the superstar weighed down by a nation's expectations at previous World Cups."He showed and transmitted an acceptance of himself. There was no awkwardness in delivering his awkwardness if that makes sense.
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