Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni has encouraged Lionel Messi to continue playing for “as long as he can.”
Messi, 36, who recently completed his first season with MLS side Inter Miami CF, has not given an indication as to when he will retire from football.
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“We tell him [Messi] to play for as long as he can,” Scaloni told Christian Vieri in a Twitch interview.
“He has proved that he doesn’t have an end. You don’t know when he will give [it] up. It’s incredible.”
According to Scaloni, the football field is a refuge for the player.
“He is happy on a football pitch,” he said. “Off it, I think it’s hard to be Leo because he goes out of his home and he is surrounded by many people. On the pitch, where the ball is, he is happy.”
