Lionel Messi was forever immortalised when Argentina Football Association AFA president Chiqui Tapia announced on Saturday that the Argentina training camp will be named after the superstar.
The centre which was named Casa de Ezeiza, would be known as “Lionel Andres Messi” from March 25 onwards, Tapia had tweeted.
“Thank you all very much for being here. I am grateful to ‘Chiqui’ for this recognition, it is very important to me. I have been coming to this property for 20 years and since I entered I felt a very special energy.
property for 20 years and since I entered I felt a very special energy. Until today, every Every time I enter, I feel a very particular energy in this property.
I have had hard times, but even in those moments, entering here meant forgetting everything, it was arriving and feeling happiness for being in this place, the same thing I still feel,” Messi said.
I feel very happy that after so long this is going to bear my name. I am one of the people who think that tributes have to be done while alive, and I think this is a very special recognition for all that this property means, for the amount of players who pass by.
Passing by here and knowing that it will bear my name is something very nice,” he added.
Earlier in the week, Messi mania gripped Buenos Aires as the Argentina national team led by Messi beat Panama 2-0 on Thursday in a friendly match that was essentially a celebration of their World Cup victory last December.
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