Lionel Messi chose his best Argentine friend and it's neither Kun Aguero nor Angel Di María

Lionel Messi can already say that he is completely fulfilled. In fact, this is how he expressed it with his famous gesture of "that's it, that's it" just after winning the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. After suffering several blows with the Argentine National Team, even with generations of top-level figures, he finally managed to everything and more at the hands of Lionel Scaloni and together with a group of young footballers.

Although La Pulga is the greatest figure of the Albiceleste, there were other footballers who responded at key moments, such as Dibu Martínez in the penalty shootouts and with his emblematic save in the final against France or Ángel Di María with his very important goals in the finals. Copa America, Finalissima and World Cup. Now, now the '10' revealed that there was another key player who was of great help to him in the national team.

This is Rodrigo DePaul. Although his performance in the World Cup went from less to more, Leo confessed that the Atlético de Madrid midfielder played a key role when the change came about. “It helped me a lot to integrate into that group. It was what I had to do at that time: I joined them because they were all new kids, "Messi said in another preview of the Public TV series, 'Key to Eternity'.

Does Messi play the 2026 World Cup?

His presence for the 2024 Copa América is already confirmed, but he himself questioned his participation in the next World Cup. Now, the door is not definitively closed and it all depends on how I get to that date from the physical. It should be remembered that it will be done in the United States, a country that will have Messi as a figure now that he arrives at Inter Miami.