Lionel Messi wearing a yellow club T-shirt, exposing his new tattoo on the right forearm: a flower and a clock, red and black, somehow oriental – the usual , What is less normal that he shows up here in the sports city of Barcelona, the official press conference ahead of the Champions League semi-final against Bayern. It is the first time in almost two years that the Argentines so perceives an appointment, and it is probably to be understood as an act of counter-propaganda that the club vorschickt him that day. So that the world also about something else talks than Pep Guardiola, who, like it or not, after all trains the FC Bayern.
in which case it course is also at this lunch many questions about Guardiola. Messi she parried sovereign, he looks at the questioner, sometimes he smiles. His shyness of earlier he passed something, he will soon be the second time father, and also in the square, it runs again shining before his 100th Champions League game. “We have important things experienced together”, he therefore says about Guardiola, or: “It is logical that the spectators will celebrate him in everything he does for the club.” Or: “Under him, I have developed myself.” But on the question of whether it since its departure in the summer of 2012 still nursing contact with Guardiola, he says: “The truth is: no.”
There is a strange occurrence in the world of football, in the otherwise almost all buddies, especially if they have worked for so long. If they have together won 14 titles in four years, when the a Guardiola, the others, Messi, brought to full development and where, by today so admired him, that he says, suffer “I enjoyed it, now I have him . “
Guardiola forged anti-Messi plan
As Guardiola evening occurs even at the Camp Nou, for the first time back to its original place in the middle of the wood-paneled press room, because he hardly speaks about someone else than Messi. As if in the last two Champions League rounds not Neymar and Luis Suarez had fired the eight goals and seven Barcelona Ivan Rakitic the other. As if there was not the performance of the current teams would be to have emancipated themselves from the sole dependence on Messi and thus the system Guardiola. As if this world-class team would really consist only of Messi. “Impossible to stop him,” Guardiola once said, “against him, there is no defensive system.” Another time: “He is just too good.”
Guardiola known, prepares his performances in front of detail. He wears bright red workout clothes Bayern and disseminated two main messages. Number one: “Barcelona was an important part of my life, it was everything But I’m here to win this I have done everything in the past week…” Number two, Messi. Again and again Messi. He fiddled on a plan to neutralize his former favorite, at this particular pep idea for days report the Spanish media who knit diligently on myth Guardiola before this particular duel of obsessions like a lunatic: that of Guardiola with Messi, the Barcelona with Guardiola -. and a reunion, which is much more difficult than many people think
Cab dispute between Guardiola and Messi
More than half the team is still in the process of the glorious Pep-years: Gerard Pique, Dani Alves, Javier Mascherano, Sergio Busquets, Andres Iniesta and Messi alone in the starting lineup. It’s no big secret that some of the personality cult around Guardiola with time as well on my nerves went like the idea that Barcelona is worth without him only half. In the summer of 2013, Guardiola had just started after his New York sabbatical in Munich, both teams met at the Audi Cup. The 2: 0 Bayern surprised the observers less than the circumstances surrounding the alleged friendly match. Guardiola’s encounters with his former players appeared tense. Messi and he did not even paid tribute to a look.
There are anecdotes from the last months of the Guardiola era, explain the lot. After a title decisive defeat at home to Real Madrid about Messi insulted the coach in the booth waste for its lineup, because he had left with Pique and Cesc Fabregas and Messi two Stars Chum on the bench. But the unusual thing about the estrangement between coach and players seems that the time rather tore new wounds, as they could which healed. So many players will have learned afterwards that the always suspicious Guardiola had allegedly spying on her private life or Manel Estiarte be omnipresent consultants, they anschwärzte in unofficial talks with journalist friend.
dispute with Zubizarreta and Vilanova
Nothing but stressed the relationship probably like the primal schism of success years, the row between Guardiola and Tito Vilanova. Guardiola could, his years of assistants not forgive, that he accepted the offer to follow him, and imputed to him and Andoni Zubizarreta, the then director of sport, they decided the succession before his resignation. The old friendship with Zubizarreta has since then – and the even older Vilanova it was. When the cancer coach for tumor treatment staying for weeks in New York, he did not get a visit from the tourists Guardiola. In the previous April Vilanova died. His widow asked Guardiola, not to come to the funeral.
Messi, however, visited Vilanova a few days before his death and gave him this promise, the FC Barcelona never to leave. During the short tenure of his former youth coach the four-time World Footballer led the team that season 2012/2013 for most sovereign Championship the club’s history. Before Messi is injured in the season final sprint and a depressed Barcelona in the Champions League was humiliated by Bayern, the players switched at that time have any idea how motivated you can be when it comes to the myth Guardiola to defeat. On Wednesday they have to direct opportunity.
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