Messi is very strong, the strongest. Despite his data, he has the mentality, we played a lot in training for 4 years and Leo did not lose a single game. He has a competitive mentality. “There are 4-5 players in history who have something different,” says Pep Guardiola, the former head of “Barcelona”.
“My players at Barcelona were competitive beasts, I learned a lot from them. They always wanted to win every 3 days, they wanted to be better than their teammates. I was lucky to have the best of all time, Messi, and 24, 25, 26-year-old players from La Masia. In addition, we had Strong foreigners like Cameroon’s Samuel Eto’o, it was unusual, they played the finals like friendlies.
Messi is very smart, he understands everything. He is not very strong physically, but it is his intelligence. To play in Barcelona for 10 years, you have to be strong.
This team was a big group of friends, each of them had their own role. We all knew that Messi was the best, but after him came 6-7 strong players.
Mascherano was a humble man, he is one of the best focused players in the world. When he arrived at Barcelona, he had incredible tactical ability, concentration and speed. Javier showed humility by learning a new position, he is a special person who played for others and always thought of the collective good, not the personal one,” Guardiola said.
