He was world top in his sport and now he told a revealing anecdote with Messi

Lionel Messi is about to achieve a shocking achievement if he wins the next Ballon d'Or. The Inter Miami figure can obtain the eighth award given by France Football of his career, which, for many, would be the definitive consecration as the best player in the history of football. However, others consider that the discussion ended when Messi lifted the World Cup last year in Qatar, after having scored 2 goals in the final, which completed the 7 goals that left him as the second top scorer of the tournament, only behind Kylian Mbappé.

'Donatello' is, along with Erling Braut Haaland, the other player fighting to win the prestigious award from the French magazine. In the last season, the Frenchman's highlight was having led his National Team to the final of said World Cup. However, his spectacular performance in the final, where he scored a hat trick, was not enough to give his country the third world championship in history. Beyond the performance in the World Cup, Mbappé was only able to establish himself in the French Ligue 1 with PSG, something that Lionel Messi also achieved.

A few days before the presentation of the prestigious award, Diego Schwartzman told an anecdote that portrays the greatness of the captain of the Argentine National Team. At the time, 'Peque' became the best South American tennis player and reached position number 8 in the ATP world ranking in October 2020.

The anecdote between Messi and Schwartzman

The 31-year-old tennis player spoke with Ultimate Tennis Showdown and told what his meeting with Leo Messi was like in 2018: “I met him before the World Cup in Russia. That year I had lost to Rafa (Nadal) in the quarterfinals of Roland Garros, being up a set and a break. After the game I took a flight to Barcelona and the National Team was preparing for the World Cup,” the ‘Peque’ began.

"I was with some players, we talked to him and he told me: 'How lucky Rafa was with the rain'. That game had been stopped by the storm. In my head I was thinking: 'I can't believe I was watching the game and he knows who I am,'" Diego Schwartzman revealed.