Kevin-Prince Boateng on Messi: “When I saw him train I wanted to give up playing football.”

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·25 November 2020

Kevin-Prince Boateng on Messi: “When I saw him train I wanted to give up playing football.”

Speaking in an interview with DAZN, former Barcelona forward Kevin-Prince Boateng admitted it was a shock when he first saw club captain Lionel Messi train.

The Ghanaian arrived at Barcelona in the winter window of the 2018-19 season in a bid to reinforce the club’s forward line. Boateng only played four games with the Barça first team and failed to score a single goal.

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“Training with Messi left me speechless. I had always said that Cristiano Ronaldo was the best in the world, but Messi is something else, he’s not normal. I trained with him and he did certain things and it was just incredible. I felt then from watching him in training that I was a bad player and I said ‘I give up, I need to stop playing‘”.

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