Lionel Messi reveals behind the scenes in his fight against Covid-19

Paris Saint-Germain and Argentina star Lionel Messi revealed the difficulties he faced after Covid-19. At the age of 34, the player was infected with the new coronavirus in early January, as reported by CNN .

In an interview with Argentine broadcaster TYC Sports on Monday (30), Messi noted that at the beginning of the infection, he experienced the typical symptoms of the virus – sore throat, cough and fever. However, when the initial effects improved, the seven-time Ballon D’Or winner continued to experience respiratory problems.

“It left me with side effects. This left me with side effects in my lungs. I came back and I couldn’t run for a month and a half because my lungs were affected,” Messi said on Monday.

The Argentine forward missed three matches after testing positive in January: two in Ligue 1 and one in the Coupe de France.

Messi went on to say that he pressured himself to return to the field too quickly regarding complications that worsened its effects.

“I came back earlier than I should have, and it got worse because I went too fast and ended up getting in my way. But I couldn’t take it anymore, I wanted to run, train – I wanted to go. And in the end, it got worse,” she said.

In the same interview, Messi details, when things started to change, how he and PSG were greeted with heartbreak in the Champions League defeat to eventual winners of the competition, Real Madrid.

“When I was halfway [para estar no meu auge], the Real Madrid thing happened and it killed us,” Messi said. “It killed me and the whole dressing room in general and all of Paris because we had this big dream in that competition.”

“And the way it happened, the game, the result… it was a punch in the gut.”

Messi is preparing to play with his national team against Italy in the first edition of the Finalissima, a new competition devised by football governing bodies Uefa and Conmebol, pitting the winners of Euro 2020 against the winners of the Copa America. The match takes place on the 1st of June.

César López and Patrick Sung of CNN contributed to this report.

Source: CNN Brasil

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