Lionel Messi: he lost 6-0, the ninth series in his name is released and why he will travel 37 thousand kilometers in 20 days

As if it were not enough that he is real, that he rides a bicycle in flip-flops in Rosario and belongs to these times, different Argentine, American and Spanish producers and directors have taken over the phrase and given it statistics: Apple has just published the trailer from the Argentine captain’s new series, “Messi’s World Cup: the rise of a legend.” It premieres on February 21. It is the ninth documentary series produced around the best footballer in the world, or better said, the latest The Best award for his friends, the world captains.

We Peruvians knew three brief pieces of news about Inter Miami, Messi’s new club: 1. The memory of the 4-0 that he dealt to the ‘U’ in the summer of 2022, when Gregorio Pérez was about to leave the club due to an illness cardiac. 2. The 2007 class boy Gabriel Alonso, with dual nationality (Peruvian and Argentine), played for Inter Miami Sub 17, he was a winger and could be a winger on the left. 3. The healthy decision of David Beckham, one of the owners of Inter Miami, who around 2013 announced his intentions to enforce a promising clause, with Miami as the chosen city, signed the day he went to the MLS: in exchange for 25 million dollars, he could acquire a franchise in any city in the United States.

Today everything is known. Not only is he the desired protagonist of any film director, he is also the traveler who fulfills commitments like no other top soccer player in the world: TyC Shorts confirmed this Thursday that Inter Miami will travel 37 thousand kilometers to fulfill a promotional tour that will take him to cross the planet in twenty days. At the beginning of the tour, the first stop was San Salvador, in El Salvador, on January 19 at the Cuscatlán stadium. It was a 0-0 Friday. There in Central America was the premiere of the 2024 version of Gerardo Martino’s team, with Luis Suárez as star reinforcement. Three days later, Inter Miami had a duel against FC Dallas at the Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas. They fell 1-0 although the statistics did not move the natural order of things an inch. It only served as a stopover for the longest part of the trip: the Far East and four other games. At the start of the tour of Asia, on Monday, January 29, he faced Neymar Jr.’s Al Hilal, a close friend, although the Brazilian could not play because he is recovering from a serious knee injury.

A few days later, yesterday February 1st, the versus that no one forgets: Inter Miami faced Al Nassr, played just a handful of minutes and there was no photo with Cristiano Ronaldo (injured). They were beaten 6-0. After that clash, Inter Miami will continue heading east to stop in Hong Kong, China, where on February 4 they will play against the Hong Kong All-Stars. In the last phase of the marathon tour, Inter Miami will arrive in Japan to face Vissel Kobe on Wednesday the 7th in the capital, Tokyo. And if everything goes well, on the 15th, already back in the US and with a full passport, he will play against his beloved Ñuls.

A trip like this, of course, is also cinema.

What makes Messi cinematic? Jorge Barraza explains, from La Paz: “he is a soccer player who always plays on the red carpet.” Ricardo Darín, the voice of Elijo Creer, the official AFA film about the title in Qatar, said a few months ago that “It is very difficult to find something that unifies a community as much as football.” Guillermo Francella, narrator of Muchachos, the other post-world film, was simpler, on the day of the premiere: “he always made me happy.”

Be Eternos, champions of America, broadcast on Netflix from 2022. The documentary “Messi Meets America”, available from 2023 on Apple TV, about Lionel’s journey with Inter Miami. Messi, the film, directed by Alex de la Iglesia in 2014, where Menotti defines his authenticity like this: “Could Messi appear in Korea? No, not even in Germany”, because Lionel Messi is genius, passion and will that have grown in the right environment, Rosario, where “the maxim is football.” Matchday: Inside FC Barcelona, ​​an 8-episode series that covers the triumphs and also the defeats of Barca, narrated by actor John Malkovich, still on Netflix. This is football, a Prime Video documentary in which it explores the extraordinary impact of football in the world and ends, of course, in the Messi episode. Sebastián Vignolo visited Lionel Messi, who opened the doors of his house in Paris to speak in First Person, the documentary that can be seen on Star +, a unique Messi.

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Perhaps it is ideal to see all these films again and remember why we are privileged to have seen so much cinema in Messi.