The Argentine writer Hernán Casciari managed to move Lionel Messi and his family with the text “Messi and his suitcase”, a story in which he describes what he experienced in Barcelona, where he lived for 15 years, at the time when Messi played in the cule club
In the story, Casciari calls Messi an “emigrant who leaves his suitcase packed to return to Argentina.”
The player, who is in Rosario, his hometown, to spend Christmas, called him to thank him and told him that he cried with his wife, Antonela Roccuzzo, when he heard it.
“We both began to cry when we heard the story. I want to thank you and tell you that you made us emotional. A big hug and thanks again, ”Lionel Messi told him in a WhatsApp audio that he sent to the radio program“ Perros de la Calle ”.
“Anto showed me about Hernán, what he wrote, how he told it, it was impressive, we both began to cry because everything that counts is very true, very emotional and I wanted to send them my greetings”, the player added that on Sunday December 18 lifted the FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
The player’s audio came after the writer’s text went viral on social media.
It is a video of just over 9 minutes in length in which Casciari reads a preview of a longer text that will be published in the magazine “orsai” in March 2023.
What Casciari says in the story about Messi
In the story, Casciari compares the different kinds of emigrants, those who leave their suitcase ready by the door and defend their idioms, and those who arrive at their new destination, disassemble the suitcase and keep it forever, leaving their customs hidden.
For Casciari, Messi is the first case, and he felt identified and tells it in the publication.
Indeed, for Casciari, who lived in Barcelona for more than 10 years, Messi is part of the group of Argentines in Barcelona who refuse to lose their identity.
Messi moved to Barcelona in 2000 and, over time, became the greatest idol in the history of that club, but “he never lost his Argentine tone” when speaking with a Rosario dialect, says the author in the story.
Antonella Roccuzzothe player’s wife, also shared Casciari’s story on her Instagram account.
“I remember that on Saturdays in 2003. In the morning. On the TV3 channel of Catalonia, they broadcast live the games of the lower teams of Barcelona. It was at 11:30. And on Sunday, at 9:30. In the chat rooms of emigrant Argentines, two questions were repeated: ‘How do you make dulce de leche with condensed milk?’ and ‘what time does the 15-year-old from Rosario who scores goals every game play?’” Casciari recounted on the radio program, reading and counting his preview.
“The morning rating of Catalan television exceeded the prime time at night, because many people began to talk about this child. In the hairdressers, in the bars and in the stands of the Camp Nou. The only one who did not speak was him, ”he added.
“When he began to give interviews, we emigrant Argentines discovered, with relief, that he was one of ours, one of those of us who had our suitcases unstored: he ate all the S’s and said full, instead of missing,” Casciari expanded in the story. that made Messi emotional. And he added: “Messi was our leader in that battle. The boy, the one who did not speak, kept our way of speaking alive”.
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