Marcelo Bielsa's funny anecdote when he saw Lionel Messi play on video: “Put it on normal speed, so you can't see it” [Video]

The story of Lionel Messi’s lightning debut with the Argentine National Team Sub20 to prevent him from ending up with the Spain shirt on. It all happened on 29 June 2004 against Paraguay, and before that Marcelo Bielsa had the opportunity to see him play on video

This friendly was held at the Diego Armando Maradona stadium, Messi entered the 67′ and to 81′ dribbled between two defenders to make it 8-0 in that fantastic match that had a simple and clear intention.

Hugo Tocalli, coach of that Sub team20, and Julio Grondona, former president of AFA, were the promoters of said friendly. However, in 2002 the Absolute National Team led by Marcelo Bielsa toured Europe after the failure in the World Cup and the concentration hotel in Barcelona came a person with videos of little Leo.

Claudio Vivas, who was Bielsa’s technical assistant at Albiceleste and is currently Banfield’s coach, recounted the anecdote of that time the “Loco” saw Messi play for the first time on VHS. Vivas already knew who Leo was and agreed to watch the videos with Bielsa, he told TNT Sports Argentina.

“In 2002 we made a tour and passed through Barcelona, ​​we stopped at a hotel near the Nou Camp and a person came up to talk to me, saying that he was from Rosario and that he had material from Lionel Messi, who played in the club’s youth teams, I told him that I already knew him from when I did it Newell’s, and he told me that Spain was looking for him to play, and I replied that that was impossible. In that I tell him to leave me the material, complete videos actually of Messi, and at that moment, which were VHS, I put it on and immediately Marcelo slaps his hands and tells me to put it on normal speed, because that way you couldn’t see…”, he described.

And to Bielsa’s surprise, the video was normal, only Messi’s speed was not common: “And I answered that the video was at normal speed, and He tells me ‘no, this boy is a phenomenon’, and well, yes I tell him. In November of 2002 we came back from a tour with Argentina, a friendly against Japan, and we gave that material to Omar Souto and Hugo Tocalli, and then they did the rest. Omar did a great job for Leo to be in Argentina today”.

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