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經過昨天的比賽 對Messi的討論很多

剛好在衛報看這篇文章 非常喜歡 和大家分享一下

(我很喜歡衛報的報導風格 另外有翻了一篇02年韓國和義大利的比賽文章
 #1R0-sbW9 (WorldCup)  也歡迎大家指教)



非專業翻譯 匆忙翻完 有錯誤難免 歡迎指正討論 謝謝


https://tinyurl.com/y83wfv8z

Lionel Messi: traitor to some, genius to all and carrying the heaviest burden


“Whenever I have trouble sleeping, I find Messi’s goals on YouTube and watch
them on a loop,” the acclaimed Argentinian film-maker Lucrecia Martel said
recently. Asked whether they sent her to sleep she said: “They give me peace;
I  recover faith.”






Many Argentinians derive faith from watching  Lionel Messi  play: “Messi is
the first genius of the 21st century,” Jorge Valdano tells me, “and the last
bridge between the street and the academy. If for Maradona the ball was a
musical instrument, for Messi it’s a tool which he utilises with a stunning
sense of efficacy.”






Valdano was part of Argentina’s most recent World Cup-winning team and
Maradona’s on-field partner in that 1986 final. He does not use the word
genius lightly. Attempts to explain Messi’s genius have provoked a
non-negligible body of literature. Outstanding among the crop is Ramiro
Martín’s A Genius in the School Football. “Aimar used to say one doesn’t
think on the pitch, one makes decisions,” Martín said, referring to the
former  Argentina playmaker. “Messi does so in a fraction of a split second
and 90% of the time he makes the right  decision.”







“Messi is two, three players at once,” Javier Mascherano once said, and he
recently clarified for me what he means: “Conceptually, Leo does what in other
teams you need three players to do: he takes care of creating play, finishing
and assisting all at the same time.”






Messi’s stats are a testament to this; he has surpassed most on goals scored
but also in terms of assists. Mascherano thinks the constant improvement makes
Messi all the more spectacular: “He is continually in ascendant evolution –
year after year he becomes a better player.”


Messi的數據證明了Mascherano的話；他的得分超多，助攻也一樣。Mascherano認為不斷的
進步讓Messi更加令人驚艷“他持續不斷在進化，每過一年他就變成更好的球員。”



On-field genius comes with an off  pitch low profile that has rendered him
enigmatic to say the least. He rarely says much and when he does it is hardly
amazing. The writer John Carlin once said that having interviewed Messi twice,
if he were offered him again he would refuse. “Shy,” everyone says, and
almost as often the reference comes with “not so much shy as introverted”.
What is unarguable is that Messi’s savant qualities exist. And that is what is
of interest.



庸置疑的是Messi的天才，而那才是讓大家感興趣的。




After Argentina achieved second place at the 2014  World Cup, playing every
minute of the tournament with every fibre of their beings, there was a hideous
backlash back home dwelling on the mistakes, the could-have-beens, the ifs and
the buts. The cross Messi has to bear for being Argentinian but not having won
a major trophy for the nation is as unbearable as it is ridiculous.






The dichotomy between club and country is the single most referred-to question
thrown my way when it comes to Messi, ever since he sat on the bench as an
unused substitute in 2006, sulking while Argentina went out to Germany. How
come he delivers so much for Barcelona and so little for Argentina? Is it
Andrés Iniesta? He doesn’t sing the national anthem was one of the criticisms.
And he never played in his own country’s first division.






A perception has been voiced that somehow he is sometimes a ravenous winner
(for Barcelona) and other times a disconnected outsider who does not feel the
emotion of the strip (for Argentina). The author Andrés Burgo disputes this.
“There was never a ravenous Messi and another disconnected one: he was always
ravenously disconnected,” he wrote in 2015. That came after the 2014“fiasco”
was followed by Messi leading Argentina to another final, the Copa América,
where they lost against Chile.



Messi，他總是極端地斷線。”之後在2016年Messi帶領阿根廷進入另一次決賽，美洲盃，
最後卻輸給智利。


https://imgur.com/PJHH4Q8


Ravenous, disconnected, introverted and somehow remarkably “one more in the
team” and “just a normal guy” – quite a feat for probably the most famous
guy in the world. “You’re better known than Coca-Cola,” the political
journalist Luis Majul told him a few months ago in an interview aired in
Argentina and Messi laughed. Why? Was it the fact itself or the nature of the
comparison that cracked him up? Majul asked, as if talking to a child (because
interviewers talk to him as if he is a child): “What are you laughing at?
It’s true.” The reply was a shrug, an “I don’t know”, some sort of “I
never think about myself in those terms” thing.

極端、斷線、內向，但同時又“只是隊上的另一個球員”、“只是個普通人”，這對也許
是世界上最知名的人來說實在是不簡單。“你比可口可樂還有名欸，”政治記者Luis


(記者可能不知道Messi其實是代言Pepsi...)


A more recent interview with the popular football programme Líbero visited
Messi’s personal museum of balls, trophies and football shirts – the shirts
signed by former team  mates, rivals, legends. He shows off Iniesta’s, the
most recent addition: “I never asked him for his shirt before, because I was
still enjoying him,” he said; now that Iniesta has left Barcelona he dared
ask. “You are the number one, there is no one like you,” Iniesta’s message
says.





Huge efforts from the Messi brand are being poured into highlighting that he
gives these interviews to Argentinian media. The view that Messi has matured
– now that he is a father – and adopted leadership skills, that he is more
sure of himself and dares be who he wants to be, is further illustrated by his
relatively new image. “The ornamental beard, so in vogue, so ex  con,” was
the cynical take from the professional social provocateur Esteban Schmidt in
Argentina. The Beckham-style tattoos (at least one of which has been removed)
present a more masculine, muscular Messi. Gone is the shy antisocial Messi; in
comes the new leader.





“In spite of media efforts to Maradonise him, he really doesn’t pick players,
select squads, or dictate formations or lineups,” said a source from within
team Messi to counter rumours rife in Argentina. Much was made of the fact that
in a friendly against Spain in March, when he asked not to play because of
muscle fatigue, he went into the dressing room at half-time to give the pep
talk. At Brazil 2014, after an initial defensive formation, apparently Messi
sent word to the coach, Alejandro Sabella, that the players weren’t happy, and
a more offensive lineup reigned henceforth.


Alejandro Sabella反映球員們不是很開心，之後阿根廷就擺出了較攻擊型的陣勢。



We can track rumours of the modus operandi back years; allegedly he texted
managers with his tactical critique from the bus after a match, seats away from
the manager. He is more comfortable texting than speaking. Juan Sebastián
Verón claimed that the only time he saw him nervous enough to lose sleep
(Messi sleeps on average a couple of hours more than most athletes, including a
sacred afternoon nap) was when he had to speak to the squad as captain in 2010.
Verón said Messi paced the room they shared anxiously.

我們可以追蹤這些流言到好幾年前，據說Messi賽後在隊巴上傳簡訊給教練表達他對戰術的
意見，而他離教練只有個座位遠而已。比起開口說話，他覺得傳簡訊比較自在。Juan




Messi’s phone is his friend. To the point that on the friendly tour of
Manchester and Madrid it was leaked that he sat, head hung low, staring at the
screen even at mealtimes; that younger players in awe dared not approach. His
longstanding osteopath of yesteryear José Brau said: “The way to understand
him is to watch his body language: when his head is down it’s as if he was
putting up a Do  Not  Disturb sign.”






Sometimes his head appears to be low on the pitch and he goes on to score some
impossible goal and it is on the pitch that we should observe him. “A genetic
miracle,” Fernando Signorini told me. Signorini has worked as a trainer with
footballers for as long as he can remember and was in charge of Argentina’s
physical coaching at the 2010 World Cup. “Just like Diego, his neuromuscular
coordination has a cosmic power. Almost unthinkable ability to control their
body in time and space, defying gravity. At maximum speed, he can take two
steps with the same leg and the ball. I’ve tried to do it on sand and I
couldn’t. Leo and Diego do it routinely, at high velocity, surrounded by the
greatest players in the world trying to stop them. That’s how I would define
his  genius.”






The challenge then is to create the environment that will best enable him to
thrive. Successive Argentina managers have spent inordinate amounts of time not
only meeting Messi on regular trips to Barcelona but questioning Pep Guardiola,
the coach widely regarded as having got the best out of him. Guardiola is said
to have told Sabella: “Speak to him the bare minimum, only when absolutely
necessary.”






Martín remembers Guardiola showing him video footage he would put in front of
Messi accompanied by light hints. “What do you think if we try this?” Or:
“It seems to me that we could have an opportunity if we did that  …”
“Suggest,” Guardiola says. And let him be.


Martín記得Guardiola曾經給他看過他要給Messi看的影片還有一些簡單的指示。“我們試
試這個你覺得怎麼樣？”或是“看來如果我們這樣做可能會有機會...”
“給建議，”Guardiola這麼說，然後就隨他去。



Jorge Sampaoli has also been briefed by Guardiola. Argentina’s coach seems to
be cracking the Messi enigma. Sources close to the footballer say he was very
pleased after their first meeting, because they “only spoke about football”.
It is in keeping with Guardiola’s stance to stick to the subject.






The anguish Messi feels when he loses is clear. The image of him sobbing in the
arms of Mascherano after defeat in one final, the surprise  retirement from
international football after another  (he was lured back) are indicative of a
frustration bordering on the unbearable.


Messi輸球時感受到的痛苦是很明顯的。有張輸掉決賽後他在Mascherano的懷裡大哭的照片
，還有他在輸掉另一場決賽後突然宣布退出國家隊，這些都顯示了他接近崩潰的沮喪。



But the absurdity of the burden the national flag represents subjects him to
constant backlash – his every utterance turned against him in the most
unexpected ways. “Do you feel you owe the World Cup to the Argentinian people,
” he was asked. “We owe it to ourselves,” Messi replied.





A barrage of manufactured controversy ensued: Messi does not feel indebted to
the nation. A traitor, motivated by the deep Qatari-sponsored coffers of
Barcelona more than by the glorious emotive weight of the national strip.

然後又引起一連串的爭議了：Messi覺得他沒有欠國家什麼。一個叛徒，只願意為背後有卡
達大財主的巴賽隆納奉獻，而不是國家隊球衣的榮耀和情感，



The sports psychologist Marcelo Roffé, who worked with Messi’s generation of
players at youth level, said it wasn’t Maradona who is ill – Argentinian
society is ill. “How can a person be psychologically prepared to tolerate the
‘poison’ of success?” he said. “It’s not easy.”





Messi has enjoyed his football more with Barcelona. The familiarity with his
team-mates and his surroundings notwithstanding, perhaps he really is a
creature of habit. He apparently likes order and is himself very ordered;
Argentina maybe throws just that little bit more chaos his way than he can
handle. Unlike Maradona, who thrived on conflict and feeds off opposition,
Messi seems to need cooperation in order to succeed. He functions best as part
of a well-oiled machine. It’s difficult to match that concept with Argentina,
on any level.






Plenty of Argentinians are football lovers in the purest sense, content to
share the fact that we are from the same country as Messi and satisfied with
the joy he has given. “I love you just the way you are; without cups or
trophies” Alejandro Wall titled a feature-length ode of gratitude, voicing the
feeling of millions. But plenty more, and perhaps the media are more guilty of
this than most, still feel something is incomplete.





Mascherano told me Messi has a conditioning effect on the collective
performance. He also believes Messi’s best version depends on the team and
Messi seems to echo this, always claiming he wins nothing alone.


Mascherano說Messi會因為球隊整體的表現而受到影響。他認為Messi最好的狀態要取決於
球隊，而Messi也這麼認為，他總是說他並不是一個人贏下所有榮譽。



Maradona won a World Cup for Argentina practically single  handedly, but at a
cost. To himself and perhaps the collective ego of the nation.

Maradona幾乎以一人之力贏下世界盃，但這也不是沒有代價的——代價可能就是他自己，
或許還有整個國家的集體自我。



“This has to be very clearly stated: Messi is not Maradona; whether we like it
or not,” Roffé has said. “As Argentines, we have done a lot of damage to
Maradona. We can’t stop consuming him, as if he was a substance. Let’s hope
with Messi we learn to modify our behaviour.”





This is almost certainly Messi’s last chance to win a World Cup so the onus
and pressure are on the other 22 players. Are they up to the task of helping
the genius emerge triumphant? Will anything change if they do? Discussing
Messi’s fantastic maturity and fitness level, Sampaoli was asked whether this
was “Messi’s World Cup”. He replied: “This one, the next one, and the one
after that.” It is not as if he is going to play until he is 50, came the
retort from the floor, to which Sampaoli replied: “I  don’t  know.”








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最後想和大家分享一下adidas在2006年拍的impossible is noting系列廣告


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8ZCsYJMqJg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn9MbpY2iHI

裡面Messi畫了自己，講出了他的故事，因為生長激素所以長不高

"但是身材小我就比較靈活，
 然後我學著把球留在地上的踢法，因為那是它覺得最舒服的地方。
 現在我了解到，有時候壞事也會有好結果。"


雖然是商業廣告，但是也太勵志了，看了真的很感動(音樂又好聽！)。
(這一系列廣告如果沒看過真的可以找來看看，貝克漢的也很值得看)


我覺得比起Ronaldo(其實某種程度上Maradona也是這樣啊)的自信爆棚和領袖氣質
(Ronaldo在16年歐洲盃pk賽的喊話真的很讓人起雞母皮啊)

Messi就是一個害羞內向只想踢球的小孩子
他並不想受到太多注意和吹捧 可以的話他甚至不會想當隊長

這幾年他外表改變了(文章中有提到) 也開始比較會秀自己了
https://imgur.com/SHC73Ec 幾年前我真的不覺得Messi會有這樣的慶祝動作XD

不過我希望他不是只是在符合大家的期待...然後心裡還是有個很怕受傷的小男孩



https://cn.nytimes.com/people/20140616/t16messi/zh-hant/
另外推薦這篇 非常值得一看喔




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