23 June 2024 , 16:02
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Lionel Messi has confessed that he's hesitant to speak English for fear of making errors - despite understanding nearly all of it.
The football legend, who transferred to Inter Miami last year, shared on his nephew Tomas Messi's YouTube show "Dispuestos a Todo" (Ready for Anything) that he's been slowly getting more comfortable with the language, reports the Express.
Messi disclosed that while he gets almost everything in English, he's been reluctant to speak it publicly due to a fear of slipping up, but his time in Miami seems to be boosting his confidence to engage more with the language.
"The truth is that I understand everything or almost everything, Little by little I am starting to speak more," Messi said. "I think it's about daring to speak in English. Sometimes out of embarrassment or fear of making mistakes, I don't speak, but I think I could already start speaking quite well."
Among the topics he discussed in the interview, he spoke about his wife Antonella Roccuzzo and the beginning of their relationship which first began back in Argentina.
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He explained: "I used to go to her house because of her cousin and that’s where I met her, when we were very young. I always liked her. Then at 13 years old I went to Spain and we kind of lost contact. Communication was much more difficult than now.
The 36-year-old admitted he understands almost everything in English (Abitare/Youtube)"It was through letters, emails or some international phone calls which were expensive. So we stopped talking and distanced ourselves a lot. At 16 or 17 years old we reconnected; communication was much easier with messenger, we chatted there.
"We got closer again; we hadn’t lost that feeling we had as kids; nothing had changed. At 19 or 20 years old we started dating." The pair finally got married in 2017 and share three sons, Thiago, 12, Mateo, 9, and Ciro, 6.
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