Sunday evening, in the cinema of the future, the wild and romantic Post-DDR-semi-ruins, close to the Ostkreuz station in Friedrichshain. The Berlin Barça fan club “Penya Barcelonista Berlin Culer” is here at home, the game of Association in the case of Betis Sevilla is transmitted, about 30 followers came. The sound of a sports commentator, as usual in Spain, with a cracking voice, full on. Would not be necessary. The way HE plays, how HE hits, again a pack of three, would play fanáticos of the PBBC also the silent film. And not just because of the hat-tricks.
18. Minute, Lionel Messi curls the free-kick at the wall of the Betis-player over to the high right corner, the goalkeeper Pau López is right and yet powerless. First-half stoppage time, 45.+2. Minute, Luis Suarez plays the Ball the ball to Messi who shoots from full run – López is released properly and did not have a Chance. And then the 85. Minute. Messi is coming back in a high Tempo on the Ball, just behind the penalty area line, and lifts him out of the running in a 20-metre arch over Lopez into the left corner. This is not football. This is art. And it happens to be something that seemed unthinkable.
The Betis Fans. They applaud Messi. For at least one Minute the stadium clap for a player on the outside of Catalonia, and plenty of the infamous FC Barcelona. Its local supporters, often with the Flag of the separatists wag and Spain again and again, sending out the signal that we want to do with you, nothing more. But such a magical striker Seville has not seen for a long time, unless Messi came in with his Team. And in the cinema of the future, the shouting, the Fans in Berlin, a frenetic multicultural troupe, to jump on each other, a beer Bank falls over, a bottle of fragmented, minute-long high-five, skein-like hugs. When calmed down the crowd in half, a Fan says in a low voice, “we need to enjoy every second of it, Messi plays”.
One day it will be over. Messi is 31 years old. The PBBC and probably all of the hundreds of thousands of Barça Fans worldwide already fear today is the day to play with your “G. O. A. T.”, the “Greatest Of All Time”, stop for the club. Barça without Messi – the world’s not going to end.
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As the little Argentinian for years, the enemy ranks already dribbles through the defense as he meets and makes again and again, addictive. There are players who have achieved more, become a world champion like Pelé and Maradona, or at least have won a continental success, such as Cristiano Ronaldo, 2016 with the Portuguese national team became European champion. Messi has only won in 2008 with the Argentine Team at the Olympic Games in China, the gold medal, for a player like him is hardly a comfort. And the addiction factor is Messi, the cult worship by his Fans and the applause of the opposing audience in Seville is also only partially explain with the other titles, four times a Champions League winner, five times world player of the year, nine times the Spanish champion, and so on. But Messi is more (in spite of tax evasion and monster content). HE is the galactic of the modern football game, a brilliant scorer and a turbo engine of FC Barcelona. Why remains a Hero forever 25?
