Kevin-Prince Boateng have revealed it Lionel Messi’s attitude to training had a negative impact on Barcelona’s young players. The former Ghanaian International played together with the Argentine during his loan rod on the Spanish giants from the Serie A team Sassuolo during the 2018/19 season.
While he only succeeded with four performances in all competitions for Blaugrana, he did enough to secure the A la Liga medal together with Messi, who ended the season as the league’s top score with 36 goals.
Despite it From Miami Superstar’s exceptional performance leading Barca to their eighth league victory in 11 years, Boateng shared some unexpected insights into the eight times Ballon d’Or The winner’s training habits.
At ‘Rio Ferdinand Presents’, the ex-Tottenham Hotspur player admitted that Messi’s minimal effort in training had a negative impact on the club’s young players. “So we come into the dressing room, He just sits there on his phone [and] gets a massage sitting down, ” He told the Manchester United icon.
“Two minutes before we go out, He just stands up, closes his boots and goes out. The warm -up for the Champions League game against Liverpool, [we did the] Crossbar Challenge and then he goes in again. [The] Coach made the last adjustment, [Messi] are on the phone’s face [and] 30 seconds before we go out he just comes and puts his jacket on and boom, goals, goals, goals. “
Messi effect: a double-edged sword
While Messi, 37, can be hailed as the ultimate football guide, his simple magic did not rub on any of the younger players in Barcelona who tried to emulate their regime with less star results.
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“That’s what the young players did in Barcelona: Malcom, Dembele, they looked at him and They didn’t train so then went to the game, they were injured,“ Boateng told. “He’s the only one in the world who can do it.”
Boateng reflects on their own previous remorse
Now 38 spilled the well -obsessed PRO, which has arisen performances for impressive 15 clubs over five nations, also about his previously ruthless lifestyle during his stint at Tottenham and admitted a wild expenses due to a lack of professional discipline.
“I’ll go back and say: I didn’t treat football as a job,” he said in one Republic interview. “I was an idiot. I had talent, but I trained the naked minimum, an hour in the field. I was the last one to arrive and the first one left, ” he said in a brutally honest admission.
“I would be out with friends. I had money, I lived like a king. I had never been to the gym. It changes your later career. I bought three cars in one day when I was at Tottenham: A Lamborghini, a lobster and a Cadillac.“
“To the young people I say to them:” You can’t buy happiness.
