Lionel Messi: "I wanted to kill myself during the 2022 World Cup final"

Lionel Messi, a striker for the Argentine national team and Inter Miami, has admitted that he is a very self-critical person.

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"I have always been very self-critical. I think I am the first one to evaluate myself. During the game, I try to never switch off. Often I don't participate in an episode, but I don't stop participating in the game and seeing what happens next. I try to talk to myself and stay engaged in the game.

Often I get angry with myself. For example, in the World Cup match against France, I wanted to kill myself. Although the loss of the ball was far from our goal, I lost it because I wanted to score too much.

When I wanted to make the last pass, the ball was far away from me and it was taken away. But yes, in that match I was self-critical of myself, but I tried to overcome myself and get back in touch with the ball to get back into the game," Messi was quoted as saying by Infobae.

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