Thierry Henry played for three years alongside Lionel Messi, and his voice still catches when he talks about it. 🥹⚽ In an interview, he recalled a training session where a referee did not call a foul on Messi and the coach told him to stop complaining.
What happened next, according to Henry, was almost impossible to believe: Messi went to get the ball and scored three goals in a row, stealing the ball again and again, until he turned around and said “next time, call the foul”. Everyone on the field could only answer yes.
Henry summed it up with a phrase that stuck: “This is Hollywood stuff. If you wrote a script like this, you’d think the director went too far”. And he added that, after the comeback against Egypt at the World Cup, seeing Messi cry reminded them that, after all, he is also human. 🐐❤️