Lionel Messi has many teammates at Barca and the Argentina national team, but who is Messi’s best friend in football?
Messi has been playing professionally for more than 15 years and has been teammates with hundreds of players. But who is his best friend in football?
Cesc Fabregas and Gerard Pique have known Messi since the age of 13 when the Argentine joined Barca’s La Masia academy. The three spent the best part of their youth together, before Pique and Fabregas both moved to England to build their careers.
Later, both returned to play for Barca, but Pique stayed with Barca longer and also spent more time with Messi than Fabregas. However, Messi still maintains a very good friendship with Fabregas, the player often visits Messi when he returns to Barcelona.
Messi has had a beautiful friendship with Pique and Fabregas since childhood.
Dani Alves is also a very close friend of Messi on and off the pitch. Messi himself admitted to Four Four Two magazine in 2015: “All the players in the Barca squad get along very well. But I am closer to Dani (Alves) than anyone else.
“When he came to Barca, we played together on the right wing. We spent a lot of time together and day in and day out, we had a great friendship and this also helped us to work better together on the pitch.”
However, the relationship between the two was also affected a bit when Messi announced that the Brazilian team was “protected” to win the 2019 Copa America. This statement by Messi made Alves unhappy and the Brazilian captain spoke out against it.
Dani Alves is a very close friend of Messi at Barca
Recently, Messi has built a close friendship with Neymar and Suarez when the three of them combined to form the dangerous trident of Barca. During the 3 years playing together, the three of them have always been together from the field to real life.
After Neymar moved to PSG in 2017, Messi became even closer to Luis Suarez. The two players’ families even often travel and spend holidays together.
In addition, Messi also has a close relationship with goalkeeper Jose Manuel Pinto, a player who does not often play for Barca but is very popular with his teammates off the field.
Messi, Suarez and Neymar are close friends
In the national team, Messi also has 3 close friends: Sergio Aguero, Javier Mascherano and Ezequiel Lavezzi. Of these, Mascherano has the most time with Messi because the two were teammates at Barca.
Aguero, however, is Messi’s closest friend. The two have never played together at club level, although both Messi and Aguero have asked each other to sign. When playing for the national team, Messi and Aguero have always shared a room together. Messi has also agreed to be godfather to Aguero’s son, Benjamin.
Aguero is Messi’s best friend
