current club Inter Miami<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cPa, I still can\u2019t believe you\u2019re gone. I don\u2019t fall, or rather, I don\u2019t want to fall. It\u2019s very difficult for me to imagine that I\u2019m not going to see you anymore, that we\u2019re not going to talk anymore. I know you were hurting and it\u2019s for the best, but you left too soon. We still had a lot to enjoy together,\u201d Messi wrote on Instagram, where he has 515 million followers.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou asked me so much to play in the last World Cup and days before the start was when you reached your worst. It was the first time you weren\u2019t going to be at a tournament, but mom told me that you were going to be better and that you were going to be fine to be able to travel. I told you that we were going to reach the final so you could travel,\u201d Messi added, which makes his run to the last hurdle, where Argentina lost to Spain, even more admirable considering what his family were going through.<\/p>\n
Messi said that \u201cevery time a game ended, I expected and missed your message. That’s when I realized that the situation was real\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cEven so, I kept thinking about getting as far as possible, to give you time to watch a game. We reached the final and you couldn\u2019t be there. I wanted to win it to take the trophy and show you a new one. I couldn\u2019t, my legs couldn\u2019t take it anymore. This time I tried to go against my physique, but I couldn\u2019t. I could never feel good,\u201d Messi confessed.<\/p>\n
“When I arrived you thought we had lost the final on penalties. We couldn\u2019t talk about anything that happened. You couldn\u2019t enjoy anything. We weren\u2019t champions, but you don\u2019t know how much we enjoyed every game. Again, you were right: I had to be there and play it.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m telling you this because it was the only thing we couldn\u2019t talk about, because you already know everything else. We talked every day and saw each other when we could because of my commitments.\u201d<\/p>\n
FC Barcelona legend Lionel Messi hinted at retirement soon<\/p>\n
Messi admitted that he doesn\u2019t know \u201cwhat I\u2019m going to do without you\u201d, and that he doesn\u2019t \u201cknow how to continue\u201d without his father and representative Jorge. <\/p>\n
\u201cI only played football and now I have quite a few doubts that I will continue to do so for a long time to come. You were by my side from the beginning, we were so close to the end. Why didn\u2019t you hold on for that little longer and we could finish together?,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n
“I know that your happiness was to see your family, your wife, your children well and, above all, without others knowing, to see me play…<\/p>\n
“Since I was a little boy it was always like that. You took me to all the training sessions as soon as you got home from work. Mom took me to many because you were working.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, you didn\u2019t miss the games. How you suffered watching me and how you enjoyed yourself, although you never gave me many compliments.\u201d<\/p>\n
Messi called Jorge \u201ca father, a friend and a manager\u201d. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou were always the person you had to be at all times and you were never wrong about anything. Beyond a few reproaches or fights, you were always right. In the end it ended up happening as you said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am going to miss you a lot, but you will always be present, and especially in the education of my children, because I teach them and educate them as you did with me.<\/p>\n
\u201cRest in peace and take care of us from above as you did here. Thank you for everything. I love you, pa,\u201d Lionel Messi then concluded.<\/p>\n
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