…An Argentina star who won the World Cup alongside Lionel Messi in 2022 has revealed the Barcelona legend once blanked him for months after a Champions League match
Leandro Paredes has revealed that Lionel Messi once refused to talk to him for three months after a misunderstanding.
Paredes won the World Cup alongside Messi with Argentina in 2022 and the pair were also teammates at Paris Saint-Germain, but the midfielder has now explained how the eight-time Ballon d’Or winner completely blanked him for months after a Champions League clash.
During PSG’s win over Barcelona back in 2021, Paredes said something to a teammate which Messi apparently overheard and thought was about him. Despite Paredes’ attempts to explain the situation, Messi refused to talk to him.
“We spent about three months without speaking, I had a terrible time,” Paredes told Infobae. “I sent him a message the next day, I sent him a message 15 days later, I told him: ‘It wasn’t for you, it wasn’t to offend’.
“And he didn’t respond. He went three months without answering. Three months had passed without speaking. I thought: ‘Now I have to see how he reacts’. But no, a phenomenon, a phenomenon, because we arrived at the premises on the same day.
“I arrived a little while early and he appeared in my room. I was brushing my teeth. It was very early and he threw water on me and said: ‘What are you doing up so early?’.”
Paredes has previously revealed that Messi “wanted to kill me” as a result of the incident, but added that the pair now “talk about it and laugh”. He told Caja Negra in 2022: “He got angry, because I had made a comment to my team-mates and he heard me, and he got angry.
“He became really angry. He f***ed me up. It was bad. He wanted to kill me and I wanted to go home. Afterwards I saw him in the national team and he acted as if nothing had happened.
“He showed me what he is like as a person. The relationship continued as it was. Now, when the conversation comes up, we talk about it and laugh, but he was really angry at the time – he wanted to kill me!”
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