'I'd never seen anything like Lionel Messi' - Fabregas relives rare clips from Barca academy | MESSI
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- Former Spain international Cesc Fabregas describes being out-skilled by a young Lionel Messi when the pair met for the first time at Barcelona’s youth academy ‘La Masia’.
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'I'd never seen anything like Lionel Messi' - Fabregas relives rare clips from Barca academy | MESSI - Спорт
This is the greatest player to ever play this sport and he goes by the name of
Lionel Messi 🇦🇷
That's uo opinion
@@hixonkaylax2588 That's the fact.
@@nishant54 no
@@fcb3266 Lol. Fact.
What an experience to see feel play against play with top 3 greatest players to ever play the game. What a lucky human
And Yesterday he was crowned with a world cup...I'm Brazilian and was supporting Argentina, that's Magical Messi!
Brazilians never loved Messi when he arrived on the scene obviously because his Argentine but when you saw how much Ronaldinho loved him and nurtured him and then Messi and Neymar are like older and younger brothers and Messi nurtured Neymar at Barcelona, I’ve never seen so many Brazilians wanting Argentina to win the World Cup and that is because Messi is unmistakably brilliant of course but he’s just a really chilled gentle human being. He’s humble, he’s thoughtful and never let his ego get in the way of his genius. That is someone who has transcended a sport that your most fiercest rivals have warmth for you.❤
As an Argentinian I used to hate Brazil. Not the country, but their national team. Thanks to Messi’s relationship with Ronaldinho and subsequently with Neymar, they taught me that it’s ok to be rivals, but there’s no need to be enemies. Brazil has had the most amazing footballers, even tho Maradona, Di Stefano, Messi are from Argentina, there’s no denying Brazilian football has been the dominant football historically and that’s ok. Messi, being humble, has taught many of us that it’s ok to have respect for your biggest rival. It’s a sport, we are passionate about it, but it’s a sport.
South America 🤝🏻❤
@@deathcoder brazil really has to show up again, the joga bonito ( or bonita? i cant even remember) has to come back. the have not showed up in the past 5 world cups, even 2014 was not convincing. brazil doesnt rely on their strength anymore, they play like europeans and that will never work for your team. bring the joga bonito back, then you will have a cup. also it has to be said that ofc players like ( these are the ones i have seen) romario, bebeto, dunga, roberto carlos, rivaldo, ronaldo!, dinho, cafu even taffarel - they are heavily missed. kaka or neymar are not good enough imho ( although neymar had a lot of bad luck with injuries, but so had ronaldo and he has 3 finals and 2 cups) and all your goalies are shit xD
@@Daveymallon when even some Brazilian legends showed their support to Messi explicitly like R9 and Cafu that made it clear it was beyond their rivalry
By far the greatest player of all time
Are you sure ? The goat CR7 was not included in this video
@@blaiseragon8142 I said what I said
@@canonogic don't know greatest but by far the most luxurious career with the best quality teammates for 18 years. No other player in the GOAT debate has had these luxuries.
@@palashrawat401 true, all the other players in the goat category played with absolute bums. Its a wonder any of them even made it as pro footballers
@@canonogic Not bums, but Maradona's Napoli team mates weren't Barcelona quality. Still, I tend to think that Messi is better than Maradona.
Fabregas , Henry , guardiola , all agree that Messi was on different level playing football . We have to take note of these that have seen in close proximity the talent before our eyes.
All the great players mention r9 el phenomenon to be the greatest and toughest of all time
Then Messi came along Ronaldinho knew he played with both
@@nathanelchrist549 all the players INCLDING players and coaches who were there before Ronaldo was a thing ALL say Messi is the greatest player of all time lol...Ronado needs to worry about the guy who snatched his name and brand before worrying about the goat.
People admire R9 but they fear Messi.
@@williamvn2928 r9
Faster
Tougher
Physically very strong
Skills and flair
I mean the greatest defender of all time is maldini
And he said r9
And the greatest goal keeper is buffon is said r9
I actually enjoying seeing videos of Messi's youths just as much, if not more, than his professional days' videos. We normally see geniuses or once-in-a-generation talent when they get to professional age but rarely do we get to see those people when they're young so these videos are priceless. It's also amusing to see young boys or girls doing things that make our jaws drop ... to the floor, as Fabregas said.
Absolutely agree with it. There was a certain sense of freedom in the way Messi played, seen the most in his pre-debut days.
10000000% agree with this
What's mindblowing is he plays the same as he did when he was 10.
Yes
@@tylerdordon99 still the same foundations, he has simply perfected his craft in every way throughout the years
"the speed was not normal"❤😂
i think its fair to assume that a lot of players in actual league matches, champions league games and even national team games must have thought the same when they first faced him, who is clearly not a human being (;
Cesc Fàbregas is a legend. One of the greatest at midfield. I miss watching him on the field.
Barca got better when they sold Fabregas and bought Rakitic instead
Watch Him at Serie B 😂
@@aranighosh3945 You mean Suarez who completed the trio, you can’t compare Rakitic to Cesc, Cesc in less time has way more stats at Barca than Rakitic despite playing out of position
Cesc was a brilliant world class at very young age and one of the best midfielders ever
Best passer in the world when he was at arsenal
This genius is merged three to one
Greatest goal scorer
Greatest playmaker
Greatest dribbler
🐐
Ronaldo is the greatest goal scorer facts kostala
@@ariangoleh who has the most goals in a calendar year?
Zidane is the greatest dribbler. Messi is the best combo of those three, yes
@@ariangoleh of penalties that is!
@@colangelog09 zidane greatest dribbler? Are you crazy? Messi being the best dribbler is indisputable
Simply the GOAT
@@victorspotwhere’s his championship leave? Where’s his coke 🤪 he is worm form rn
The greatest most complete player ever the goat 🐐
Define complete? Does this include defending? Scoring from 40-50 yards out? Headers? Bicycles kicks?
I think saying he is the most complete and best ever player is an insult to all the other legendary players. Messi is so damn good but I wouldn’t say he is complete.
No right foot. Can barely header. Can’t score from long distances. Never seen him show his skills like step overs, focus pocus, cruyff turn etc.
I think he is a master with football IQ, intelligence, passing, free kicks, dribbling, scoring, touch, technique.
@@1989maihan Yes complete is not the right word. O think he is the best player the world has ever seen but he isn't a complete player.
@@1989maihan as complete as can be, no other player will touch his level of versatility unless they are very, very gifted
i think ronaldo might be most complete, Messi is still the greatest
he is the complete player in the macro scale ,the football world has ever seen as of yet.
I think i know what he meant by, 'they had to foul him so hard', Messi had such balance n speed that he could ride a normal foul n keep going. The only way to stop him was kick him n kick him hard, then that rarely worked either because he just got mad 🤣🤣
I think i also know
@@Giraffe972 😂
La Liga defenders used to *try* to kick him so hard, it would be a strong risk of a red card offence, but usually they would be unsuccessful at even doing that.
This is why it always used to make me laugh that Maradona debate about how tough it used to be in the 80s- sure it was tougher in the 80s, but you really think that would stop Messi? LOL. They have to catch him to even kick him first, and when they do he has never lost his temper once that I can remember. He has the best/coolest mentality of any footballer on the planet, even though he's been the most targeted. It would be the same in the 80s- there would be more challenges, but his personality clearly shows he'd be the last footballer in any environment to be affected.
@@Tridentus 100 I always remember Ramos n Pepe kicking lumps out of Messi, stepping on his hand n all kinds of dark arts. It just made him mad n made him go beast mode lol 😆
In other words he was short.
Messi plays like an alien
Genius Genius and Genius. Least words to describe him
Cesc is a class act, showing/telling others, that simply talent is not the solution - "you have to be mentally very strong and the persons around you "we were good kids as well" develops you!
But even putting that aside, Leo is just GOAT, doing GOAT things!
Old pals from Barcelona he would say that it called favouritism for your teammates
@Ayoo cronyism is another word you could use
@Ayoo no hatred towards messi a brilliant player just don't like it when ex teammates feel the need to tell us something we know already, however some people are happy to be treated as retards.
"We were good kids as well" - what exactly does he mean by that, can you tell?
Cesc talked about such things before, he said he had many team mates better than him at La Masia that never made it to the pro level
As Madrid fan, I acknowledge how good Messi is since 2007 or 2007 (when Barca won UCL), when Messi still under the shadow of Ronaldinho (Ballon d'Or winner that time).
But I saw that young man was keep brightening season by season, until Ronaldinho said his famous statement "This kid will be the greatest player in the world"
And by mean "the greatest", I'd never thought Messi will achieved this far and became the greatest of all time
What a remarkable experience living during Messi's era
when they talk about messi they talk about him like they just seen a ghost. He is the GOAT
He's the best skillster world cup winner greatest player ever 👏 🙌 💙 ❤️ 👌
I saw Messi the first time in 2005 against Chelsea (Del herno red card) and I automatically felt he was special. He went off injured in the 2nd leg at the 17th minute and I was very disappointed. He’s by far the greatest and most talented football player I have seen.
The biggest difference you see with 95% of players is that with age and experience their playstyle changes a lot depending on the team and league etc but Leo when he was 14-15 in those clips and now at 35 play almost identical and people still can’t stop him. Ofc he is slower now so can’t outrun defenders like the old days but he’s able to use his deadly passing to help others more. This is the definition of just unreal god given pure talent where he hasn’t really adapted his game at all, it’s the exact same and just altered it now due to physical limitations. That’s my GOAT 🐐
He’s adapted his play - another facet of his brilliance. He’s more measured now. And his natural humility allows him to bring his play-making skills to the forefront. Messi works for his team so he’s happy to help create goals, he doesn’t have to score them. For me, this is one of things that make him exceptional. He elevates his team mates. Despite his brilliance Messi doesn’t allow his ego to get in the way of the game.
@juneabbott6805 exactly, you slowly started to see the shift as Xavi retired he dropped back a bit to help Iniesta and then when Iniesta left he was the focal point for kick starting the whole attack which almost never starts with an attacker and is the job of the midfield yet he was able to do that and still be top scorer
The first time I've ever seen Messi playing was in a U-20 world cup in The Netherlands.
Messi was playing with Argentina against USA. Immedietly I said out loud, this is the best kid I've ever seen, he will become the best player in the world. It was a game he lost, a game he didn't score in and a game he only played in for one half.
I had never seen the kid before, I had never heard about him, nothing. All I saw was him dribbling all over the field fooling his opponents nonstop. He dribbled past them like they were a bunch of retards. I've never seen anything like it and I've never seen any other kid doing similar things either, I had seen enough of him within 10 minits to know this kid would become the best player in the world with quite a significant distance to anyone else.
I’m a retard….I take what you said offensively
Do you think a player will ever match him?
@@djjdjdbdjsj5353yez..mateo messi
Bro shut up we aren’t dumb don’t act like ur some very wise guy ur just making this crap up😂
@@djjdjdbdjsj5353ronaldo already did but messi was better
He's a gift from the football Gods ......the greatest the world has ever seen.
No, he’s a gift from God, as he actually gives “God” the credit for his success.
Greatest Of All Time.
Greatest Footballer and Greatest Playmaker Of All Time. 🇦🇷 Lionel Andres Messi 👑👑👑
That’s what Makes him a Monster. Ronaldo was the one-eyed man leading blind men/mediocres in Portugal.. Messi was a king ruling other kings in Barcelona. Monster mentality.
Just the greatest ever to play football!!!
Messi is a genius.
Messi is magic.
his close control, vision, balance, dribbling, effortless execution brings a joy and a laughter to the heart and soul.
hail to King Leo!
Messi is truly magical.
this man doesnt get the respect he deserves during his time in the pl. one of the greatest pl cms ever
not even close
Best athlete ever.
Messi is by far the best football player in the world, and he is by far the greatest football player to ever live, and anyone that knows and loves football, will tell you the same thing.
🐐❤️
I urge you..Have you watched all the footage of maradona? He was better.. and don’t watch the stupid skills footage compilations, but the actually footage of maradona winning games on his own… in Argentina, every young boy wanted to be like maradona, Messi included, so Messi is a replica of maradona. Maradona’s biomechanics and kinetics for football have been the greatest we have ever seen
@@manmy016 I agree. It sucks for the rest of the world that Argentina has produced the two greatest to ever do it, but even though Messi’s stats make him the superior of Maradona, I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone play with a ball on a string quite like Diego. For me, Diego Armando Maradona was, is, and will always be quite simply the best there has ever been. Zinedine Zidane an honourable mention in third place.
The special one... Another one 🐐 M888sii, master class.
Messi the 🐐
Even now. You cant see anybody even close to him in terms of playstyle. Hes truly a one of a kind
No one has been able to come close to his play style because it's not possible, they all emulate Ronaldo's playing style because emulating Messi is impossible. To have your brain react so quick and make such natural dribbling changes.
going off of the comment above me, Ronaldo is the result of lots of hard work (and of course some natural talent), messi is the inverse of that. He is the result of lots of natural talent (and of course hard work)
The greatest there was,there is and there ever will be. Messi the GOAT 🐐🐐❤️❤️
Once Ronaldinho was talking to Kobe Bryant and he said “you are the best at soccer I never seen anything like you before” and Ronaldinho said “there’s a kid that is better than me but nobody knows yet, his name is Messi.” Ronaldinho knew what he was talking about it.
Messi has been a reliable dribbler, a reliable playmaker, and a reliable striker from an early age.
He is absolutely unbelievable!
A gift from the Gods to Humanity!
He truly deserve the WC title. Good luck Lio !
Lionel Messi 🐐
September 7, 2023
You people are so lucky...You have witnessed the god growing as a complete player from his childhood to adolescent....from weak to strong.... From human to an alien....
Those who understand the depth of football, game buildup, beauty of game control love Messi
Add football IQ to his hugely long list. And the fact that his game play brings out the best in his teammates because he creates opportunities. He’s mesmerising ❤
*I'm a Ronaldo fan, but I also like Messi*
*Messi plays football like an Art. That's amazing. Thus, I like his playing style, it looks like a Pure Art*
u can be a fan of one of them but u also know who's better
Ur username wtf
@@tanthaman BTS Gay Army
The best player ever lived - King Messi ❤
I remember seeing him play in the U21 Argentina in Holland. I’m his age so I remember seeing him play for the first time and thought who is this kid. Unbelievable. He wasn’t even that known internationally I think or maybe I wasn’t aware but what an incredible moment. I knew that kid was special. I remember it like yesterday
Exactly me. And I'm argentinian, but back then there weren't many news about kids developing in europe. I thought "wow who is this kid?" and googled him. Since then I followed him. Chose the right guy.
He's so incredible that even calling him just a genius comes off as astonishingly offensive to me
And now a world cup champion
The greatest of all time !
He's a genius of the game
I live in Barcelona and happy to say I went to see him play a few times and pretty much saw most matches during that period because I worked in a sports bar. Phenomenal talent. To be at that level of quality, way above everyone in a team of excellent players and week in week out do the business on the pitch. Amazing.
Great stuff from BBC especially now when this gift of a player is in his twilight years of his career
My 🐐
A simple but really effective trick that Messi uses is the shuffle. I've seen him use It time and time again it has never failed him.
He's not bad at nutmegs either. 🤣
is that the new cruyff turn ?
He used it yesterday🤣
its simple yet effective and also difficult to stop lol
Called dropping your shoulder
Not simple
Depends upon a lot of factors
Messi and Ronaldo are great. What separates them is Messi can do things Ronaldo can't. He is a complete football player where as cr7 is a complete goalscorer. Big difference but both incredible players.
At this point, anyone denying Ronaldo of his greatness is delusional. I’m a huge Messi fan and NOT so much of a Ronaldo fan lol. But … he has earned my respect, despite how much I troll him on the surface 🤣
The guy was a monster and he with Messi, gave us (arguably) the most EPIC era in football.
It’s a damn shame that they’ve aged. I don’t think I’ll want to watch football once they retire…
@@xrpedro read what the guy above said. Ronaldo is the greatest goalscorer & it ends there. No one is near Messi's level & any sane football fan knows that
Messi is a genius.
Not just with his feet but with his mind as well , it take a certain level of intelligence to play so well and make the right decisions in the blink of a eye more often than not on the pitch
All good players have incredible minds
Thank you Fabregas!!!! What a beautiful interview, Leo wow
La Masia was like a football laboratory of supertalents back then.
Literally. Pumped kids like Messi full of HGH.
it still is
He is the God of football,no doubt🤴
It's funny how some people keep taunting Messi to leave his comfort zone to prove his greatness but not realising that he already had. He left his homeland at a tender age of thirteen and start a new life in Spain almost 11,000 km away and conquer all that's there for him to.
Messi is the Greatest Of All Time🐐. May God continue to bless him. 👌🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾
Do you really believe those haters. Is playing starter for prime barca a comfort zone. Those people are just pure hating
Totally agree! People think he was born in Barcelona. He grew up a in middle class family in Argentina and left at young age...to prove himself in a new country!how many English players leave their homeland to play in another country.😑
Well, he proved his worth with Argentina…after winning Copa, reaching WC final and achieving numerous records under Argentina
He is proving his worth with PSG as well currently by giving great performances in the UCL with new teammates, new coach, new environment etc it hasn’t hampered his abilities
Messi can do it in any league and with any team..
@@vb2388
Logically man
Barca is one of the strongest team ever. If not now due to their current situatuon. At least in most of messi time they were. They were easily top 5 if not top 3. So to say that being a starter for a very long time in one of top 5 teams is a comfort zone is insane. But thats cr7 fans. They are slaves not fans. They will twist logic and reality to validate their goat. To please their master
Messi doesnt even need record to be better. The eye test alone shows who is the better player
It just cracks me up that people actually think playing in the prem as the benchmark for players who want to achieve greatness. I can't record global legends like, Ronaldo R9, ronaldinho, Zidane, figo, rivaldo, Raul, maradona testing themselves in the epl. What I have seen is, top prem players are prepared to take a pay cut to join real Madrid or Barcelona to achieve greatness!!I'm an arsenal fan...I've seen all our top players leave for Barcelona!petit,overmars,fabregras,Henry!
Love hearing Cesc to talk about his best friend, Messi.
As he's recounting these early moments of seeing the schoolboy Leo. You can still see the shock & amazement in his face. Even after all those years.
That's what witnessing true genius for the first time does to you.
A bit like the amazement, on the faces of the top music rock stars of the 1960s. When they first saw Jimi Hendrix play the guitar live.
Listening to this literally brought tears to my eyes.
We will not see any player better than Leo Messi . It has been a huge privilege to watch his top performance for so many years. I feel blessed . Messi is beyond genius .
Who can deny messi greatness.? Even all football fans now and ever will recognize messi greatness.long life god of football
Love and respect - Lio ❤️🙏🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷
The greatest man to kick a football in the history of the world. The end.
The Genius 🐐
The first time i saw messi play with barca first team at 17, you could tell that he was special. It was my first time seeing someone running past players with no stepovers or anything flashy. I was totally in awe at that. Also it was almost as if the ball was alwahs glued to his feet
Leo messi made football beautiful
I remember when I joined the academy with Barca and practice with him one day, all I could ever think was “damn this kid will be superstar”.
artist and magician and effective to, assister, dribbler, brilliant touch, goal scorer , freekick scorer, game generator, plyamaker does it all. Really Good to live in the day and age that I got to see Lionel Messi, play for 12 years. And hes something else theres no doubt about it. Thank God for the players that still play this beautfiul game the way it should be and also effectively. Lets love honor and protect our inner child and express our true self authentically thats who I am and I love futbol , and futbol is game, that were suppose to win, and being good at it and skilled at it, and technical at it, and reading it well will help us be better... Yes to art and effectivity.... no to cherry picking and penalty tap ins .... Wohooo Joga bonito
If you didn't see Messi at 19 y/o to 27, 28 y/o I'd understand if you think he's overhyped. The young Messi, before age, before injury, that guy was a creature from another world.
Loved watching the same 3 highlights
Messi is the greatest of all time and still the best in the world at 35 🐐
Absolute GOAT
absolute goat.
change my mind.
Nobody had seen anything like Messi
🥶 Never challenges with GOAT MESSI... 🔥🥰🔥🥰🔥🥰 now he is king of football.... And GOAT of football... 🥰🥰🥰
"much stronger physically" that what growth hormone does
Thank you for taking good care of him 🖤
Messi is the best football player in the history the ultimate goat 🇦🇷🇵🇰🐐
There is no comparison , he is by far the greatest player of all time, the list is as follows
1. Messi
2. Substitute Messi
3. Maradona
4. Pele
5. Cruyff
Look Cesc was pure class, amazing career. But I wonder what he must feel every time Messi’s name is brought up. I mean, imagine being one of the few players who were there from the beginning? He must feel so blessed.
Greatest of all time. He isn't just a great scorer like CR7 but a great playmaker, passer of the ball and team player. He is a beast with a mamba mentality but that side isn't seen coz he isn't as vocal and a PR person
Capo dei capi in the making 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷💙
Only a legend can recognize a legend!! Messi di greatest of all time
Real 🐐
Thank you Cesc
And people still compare current players with Messi. Messi was not just about scoring goals. Those who have seen him from his earlier days know that Messi was a riot on the field. He messed up the defence of any team. He played pretty low earlier and used to bring the ball from the midline and score a goal and leaving the defenders of the opposite team in disarray and he was so quick. One second you see him walking, pretty much analysing the game, the field and the next second he has taken the ball and come up to the goal and surpassed the goalkeeper. I hope people including some players and pundits who took a dig at him when he was having a hard time at PSG and the people nowadays (especially journalists and reporters) who throw random comparisons with Messi take a look back at what Messi had offered on the field and Messi still offers on the field. I know that Messi's generation is literally coming to an end in terms of his career but if one thinks in symbolic terms, Messi's era would always last.
Ya... There is nothing to say about this because this man this little boy from rosario.....wondering ... We are the luckiest people born at this generation to watch his gameplay and....don't know someone would born like this in this planet ... I don't know...someone could accross him This Goat... He walk slowly than others but he grew faster than others.. Just GOAT things... How far we could watch his magic.. However happy to see him... I wish he don't retire from football anyway.. But that day will come... The retirenment of GOD's Own Son...😢......🎉
My Goat 🐐
The god of the game..🙇🏽♀️✨
That part in beginning where he turns around 180 degrees mid dribble is just something I have never seen anybody do
Messi my Favorite
Regardless of the debate of who is the GOAT, can we just got a moment celebrate the consistency of both Messi and Ronaldo. They have done something that has never been seen in world football, other greats came and went, peaked for a couple of years and faded. These two were week in, week out, year in year out for well over 10 years, it's unheard of.
Cesc was key to Spain winning the wc and to Barca winning the ucl…he never gets enough credit! Great player
GOAT
Cesc mate, Barcelona had him on every performance enhancing drug known to mankind. I'm not surprised you saw a major change in his physical ability.
The goat
Not only you Fabregas... The whole planet earth has (all 8 billion people) has not seen anything like Messi. That is why he is the UNDISPUTED. G.O.A.T. of football. The Best in history. Forever and ever. - - -
Messi.....💞
Lionel Andres Messi is undoubtedly the G.O.A.T.