Messi Hurt for Penalty Miss

 

Barcelona striker Lionel Messi admits he is still agonising over the penalty he missed in the Champions League semi-closing, second leg against Chelsea.

The twenty five-yr-old's skip from the spot was a crucial instant as Chelsea sealed a ultimate place at Barca's price.

The Spanish facet were also pipped to the La Liga title by Real Madrid.

"I am still hurting from shedding the semi-closing towards Chelsea with the penalty I missed, and La Liga with the defeat to Madrid at Nou Camp," he said.

"They are both thorns in our facet. But final period is now historical past.

"It's a refreshing commence for us all. We have to put together ourselves as finest we can for what will be a challenging season.

"I hope we can get back again to successful almost everything again."

Chelsea received the Champions League semi-last three-2 above two legs with Fernando Torres' very last-moment strike generating it 2-2 at the Nou Camp, following Messi had struck the bar from the spot with the scores level on aggregate.

Barca finished 9 points guiding Genuine Madrid in the Spanish leading division, getting lost to them two-1 (only the 3rd defeat of their league marketing campaign) late in the season.

Messi scored an unprecedented 73 instances in all competitions but the Argentine now plans to priorities trophies ahead of targets, insisting he is not involved in bettering his scoring record, only enhancing his team participate in.


"I'm not searching to conquer my tally of ambitions, that is not my goal," he claimed.

"I want to try and create as a player and to give more to the crew.

"I hope I still have margin to carry on enhancing. My goal is to get more titles."

Messi has won the Fifa Ballon d'Or for the very last about three a long time jogging and hopes that if he does not claim it once again in January, it is presented to a single of his Barcelona staff-mates rather.

"There's a prolonged time to go ahead of they announce a winner," he additional.

"We really don't even know who's nominated nevertheless. What I do hope is that it stays in the Barca squad. And the more Barca nominees, the greater.

"Xavi and Iniesta are worthy of the award since of all they attained at the Euros."

Messi is not greatest ever Player Said by Pele

Messi, 24, won the FIFA Golden Ball player in the world for the third consecutive year.

But Pele believes it needs to improve for Argentina and score more goals.

Messi - It's a great player from Barcelona, ​​but if he does not play for Argentina the same success

"If Messi 1283 goals like me who has won three world championships, has, we can talk," Pele told the French daily Le Monde.

Messi won the Champions League three times and five championship titles with Barcelona in the Spanish league.

But his victory only with the national team was the 2008 Olympics - and Brazil of Pele won the World Cup in 1958, 1962 and 1970.

The 71-year-old said: "I like Messi, who is a great player technically, we are almost at the same level ..

"It's a great player from Barcelona, ​​but if he does not play for Argentina the same success.

"People always ask me:" When is the new Pele is born? "Never. My father and my mother closed the factory."

Pele is Remote control doll said by Maradona

Al Wasl coach Diego Maradona said that age begins to affect the trial of Pele.

Pele has triggered a debate with his claims that Barcelona striker Lionel Messi will never reach their level of excellence.

But at a press conference on Saturday, Maradona laughed comments, before the age of 71 target.

"This may affect up to an advanced age his thought processes," said Maradona.

"You can not blame the people, he has not done anything for 20 years. I have not even seen in a supermarket. I do not know what he's doing."

"Usually when you see these days, it is only in the ceremony with the president of FIFA and the appearance of a doll that is not driven by remote control," he said.

"His comments are not surprising."

Pele and Maradona later dispute is the latest in a series of mixed recover sensational personal attacks on the media, with Argentine and other South American recipe for his Neymar was a better football player than Messi.