From Futuromiria and PRX, it's Latino USA. I'm Maria Inohosa. Today, the Superman of Soccer.

Which is how it's fashion!

We have a really special show for you today.

It's the first episode from the last cup. It's a new podcast produced in both English and in Spanish

by our own Futuro Studios and PR. Hosted by Argentine American journalist Jasmine Guards.

It's a series that goes way beyond football.

You are watching possibly the greatest football ever of the absolute T-QVs.

It's a story about one of the best soccer players that's ever lived.

Lionel Messi.

And if we're going to talk about the Superman of football, the God of Gods of Soccer,

we also have to talk about Superman's kryptonite, the Argentine jersey.

It's been so long.

For many years, when Lionel Messi put on Argentina's soccer jersey, the Albiceleste,

things... well, they didn't go so well.

But there was a target area and Messi misplaced it.

And he doesn't pick up the prize he really wanted.

His critics say he only cared enough to play well for the European clubs.

Yes, that he left Argentina too young and was no longer Argentine.

Messi's European. He's an Argentine. He was an European and he grew up in a society.

But the reality, what was really going on inside and outside Leo,

might have been something totally different.

We're talking coaches would find Messi in the fetal position, screaming after certain games.

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