Luis Garcia on Messi's Apparent Barcelona Exit and La Liga

Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Grant Wahl

Sports, Soccer

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Grant interviews Luis García, who was just announced as an analyst for ESPN's La Liga coverage, about Thursday's stunning news that Lionel Messi is apparently leaving Barcelona; how it could impact the La Liga season and the club; where Messi might go next; his thoughts on Atlético Madrid and Real Madrid; García's own journey in the sport; and much more. Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqIhXWUw0H4 Get full access to Fútbol with Grant Wahl at grantwahl.substack.com/subscribe

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0:00.0	Hey there. Welcome to Football with Grant Wall. Thanks so much for joining me. Today's interview guest
0:12.4	is Luis Garcia, the former Champions League winner with Liverpool, who's part of ESPN's La
0:17.9	Liga coverage and CBS's Champions League coverage. He'll share his thoughts on today's stunning
0:24.0	news that Lionel Messi is leading FC Barcelona. We've had some great guests lately including
0:29.9	Danny Higginbatham, Mark McKenzie, and Hope Solo. So check those out. Now here's my interview
0:36.3	with Luis Garcia. Our guest joining me now from Ibiza is Luis Garcia. He was just announced as
0:44.6	an analyst for ESPN's coverage of Spain's La Liga. The season starts this Friday with Valencia
0:50.8	hosting Hitafe. Luis won the 2005 UEFA Champions League with Liverpool played in the 2006
0:57.6	World Cup for Spain and had a 19 year senior career that also included time at La Liga
1:03.3	Madrid and Barcelona and in Mexico with Puebla and Pumas. Lucho, it's great to see you. Thanks for
1:09.6	coming on the show. My pleasure, my pleasure. It's totally right. Everything you said was well done.
1:13.9	Good research. I've been looking forward to this interview and then right before we started recording
1:20.8	here on Thursday, like minutes before, came the official announcement that Lionel Messi is
1:27.4	done at Barcelona, which is incredibly big news in the soccer world. And what's your reaction to
1:36.4	this? This kind of came out of nowhere. We weren't expecting this until right today.
1:40.8	I'm going to tell you exactly what I was doing. I was watching, actually, I got in post. I was
1:46.1	watching Tell us. I don't know if you watch it. It's fantastic to be sure about football,
1:50.7	soccer, and I was chilling with my missus, checking Twitter sometimes, and suddenly I received
1:57.6	a WhatsApp saying, listen, you know that Lionel Messi is not joining Barcelona anymore. You know
2:02.8	what will happen because I also, Real Madrid made that statement that he is not joining or he
2:07.6	they don't agree with this situation about La Liga. You know about the CBC situation of giving
2:13.6	money to La Liga or an investment anyway. And then I start reading Twitter and all the news.
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