Enzo Fernández was just a few years old when he would calculate Messi’s age to find out whether one day he might get to share the pitch with him. 🇦🇷
It came true. And they didn’t just play together: they became world champions. But what Enzo chose to talk about in his farewell wasn’t that, but how Leo made him feel part of the group from the very first day he joined the national team: a piece of advice, a hug, a word just when he needed it.
“How lucky I was, Leo. How lucky that kid was who did the math without knowing whether he would ever make it in time”, he wrote, already imagining the training camps without seeing him there with the No. 10 leading the way. A letter that began as an expression of gratitude and ended up being a portrait of what Messi meant to an entire generation of players. 🩵🥹