Angel Di Maria

As for anyone, it was a dream for me to come to Europe. ”

There are many things that I value, and many of them have nothing to do with my salary. ”

The first thing you learn is sacrifice and how to keep moving forward in life, helping your parents to put food on the table. You learn to fight with your work. Then you start to learn values. That's why, every time I pull on the Argentina shirt or any other, I think about the things that happened to me when I was a kid. ”

Paris is a really nice city. My family has felt very good here from the first day they arrived. That makes it a lot easier for me to focus on football. ”

If you change, it's because you want to. I will never change, and I never could change because the people around me are the same people who have always been there. My friends are the same, and that means you can never forget where you came from. ”

That desire to win is something that's drummed into you at an early age in my country. In Argentina, you grow up watching great teams and important victories. ”

It happened to me many times: I had some ugly moments at Madrid, but it all changed, and when I left Madrid, in the end I was much loved. ”

I want to win the Champions League, which is a dream for all footballers, for a second time. ”

In 2017, I was able to spend time with my family in Argentina, recharge my batteries, think about what had been achieved - I needed to change something to be better. I managed to score goals, make more assists: that is the important thing. ”

The problem is that when Argentina doesn't play well - and the same is true of Barcelona - the press think it is easy to blame Messi. We have seen time and time again that he wins games on his own when the team is not performing - but the media expect him to always be the hero. ”