Lionel Messi, focusing on his family, the biggest supporter in his extraordinary career, reveals that he has also had great pain within himself.
To cope with them, it was his family, the most precious thing to him: Family is everything to me. They have always been there for me, because there are also difficult moments, moments that we have suffered a lot with the national team. We talked a little about this before. You are already thinking about the next match, I was returning from Argentina and three days later I was playing with Barcelona. I was living two different realities.
In Barcelona we were winning everything, I was playing well and scoring goals, then I went to the national team and the results weren't coming. They cursed me. They told me everything, that I didn't feel the shirt, that I wasn't Argentine, that I wouldn't play anymore, that I shouldn't be there at all.
My family was going through a very difficult time. And that's when you appreciate even more the true love that people have for you, that are there for you.
And I've always been lucky that my family is so close to me. We're very close, as is my wife's family. It makes everything easier, because they behave the same way as we do.