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Lionel Messi's Argentine teammate revealed a quarrel that stopped them from speaking for three months
Leandro Paredes has opened up about a heated clash he had with Lionel Messi years ago, revealing how a Champions League match left them not speaking for three months
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The midfielder admitted that the feud had him stressed ahead of their Argentina reunion, but in typical Messi fashion, the tension was diffused in the most unexpected way.
Messi fumes after hearing Paredes' comment on the pitch
The dramatic fallout happened when Paredes, then at Paris Saint-Germain, faced Messi’s Barcelona in a tense Champions League tie during the pandemic era.
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With no fans in the stadium, every word spoken on the pitch was loud and clear—including something Paredes said that set Messi off.
Paredes didn’t reveal exactly what he said, but it was enough to make Messi completely ignore his messages for weeks.
The former PSG midfielder revealed, "We were winning 2-1, and I said something to my teammates. He heard me, and he gets really fired up. To calm things down… I messaged him the next day, then 15 days later, and he didn’t reply. He went three months without answering me."
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The silence stretched all the way to June, when the pair had to reunite with the Argentina squad ahead of the Copa América. Paredes dreaded how Messi would react, wondering if the bad blood had carried over.
Messi ends the feud in the most Messi way possible
With months of uncertainty behind him, Paredes finally came face-to-face with Messi at the Argentina training camp, and the moment turned out to be hilariously anti-climactic.
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Paredes revealed, "We arrived on the same day, and he showed up behind me in the room, threw water on me from behind, and asked what I was doing up so early. And that was it, there was no need to even talk about that."
That single playful gesture was enough to bury the hatchet, and the duo would go on to lift the Copa América title together just weeks later.
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Their bond would only grow stronger, helping Argentina secure another Copa in 2024 and their biggest triumph of all; the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
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