What is the difference between FC Barcelona's Messi to Argentina?

Players like Xavi and Iniesta see neither in Argentina nor in the world. They are different to everyone.

Javier Pastore , Argentina National Team player

A little over 24 hours for Argentina dispute their second game of the Copa America to Colombia, it seems that remains suspicious of the ability of a player like Messi. There are people who think that Messi is inflated by the media player or another player like Tevez is the real star of the albiceleste, can only be understood if you have not been playing with FC Barcelona Messi. If you had only been evaluated in its failed attempts with the selection.

Who do wrong to forget that in football, one player can win you a game, but will be the set of eleven players-at least-who overcomes championships. And in turn, are also wrong who think that Messi is a good football catapulted to the level of 'crack' by his fellow Catalans. Clearly, with all due respect, that is not the same play alongside Cambiasso and Banega than Iniesta and Xavi. Of course Leo misses both, that make you shine to a level unattainable. But the end is Leo which shoots to the top, which dribbles past five opponents, which the pike subtly over the goalkeeper, giving a pass to Villa millimeter to dial, and so on.

Argentina's problem is to sit and wait for the dazzling sky soccer in Europe, crossing the Atlantic, the albiceleste view, and do the same mischief without a minimum base game around. I am aware that only played in the Copa America match, that tomorrow can rout Colombia and that the July 24 can be champion. However, if we analyze the shock debut against Bolivia , we realize that despite the coaching change and some slight variation tactics, Argentina remains a team without direction, very similar to that sank in the World Cup .

What has motivated me to write this post, has been the fantastic interview published Tuesday Olé Journal Javier Pastore. An interview makes clear that even the players themselves, or at least one quality of shepherd, are unaware of where they fail. When asked about the intention of Batista to imitate the game of Barca, Pastore is clear and concise:

You can not get to play Barcelona. We will not get to play like them. Because they play well from the Bottom: The look and play alike. Reaches first after so much time together as a systematic game. The selection now is putting together. In addition, Barcelona has other quality players. We should try to imitate them, yes, because we also have players who can get a good start. Not 100%, but similar ...

It is understood that a coach his players to sacrifice in pursuit of a foreign style, instead of analyzing those players in finding their own style. Banega You can not ask to move the game as Xavi. You can not ask Cambiasso who joins the attack and Iniesta. But you can take advantage of a pastor in the midfield, or speed and dribbling Di Maria in the band, instead of sacrificing it to Tevez.

The biggest reason that Messi is not shining, it is because they feel so pressured to his fans and colleagues, trying to do tasks that do not belong. Against Bolivia, as in the World Cup, spent the whole match down to the center circle to start play, possibly due to the lack of fluidity of their peers. Logically, FC Barcelona, ​​no need to lower the center of the field to produce a play that chew and so enviable Busquets, Xavi and Iniesta. The result is to sacrifice the best striker in the world to get a good midfielder. While Messi low to develop, it loses its risk scoring. And the opponent is not the same as the take to 50 yards from goal and eight defenses ahead, whicharea on the edge of facing his marker. It's something that speaks its own Pastor:

At Barcelona he plays is not 9, but it goes everywhere. Always behind the 5 and before the plants. We must try to move in that area and not come get the ball to half court and try to pass them all, because you will one, two, three times, but the fourth is going to lose. It will not pay as you could in 3 / 4 of the court.

The best way to get Messi is not to give him all the work, but take up tasks so you can focus on what gives you best: destroy defenses and score goals. And for that, the main objective should be to form a team and an idea around. Is not mimic or give Barca every ball to Messi, but to analyze what is available and put it on the pitch in the most convenient. Once done, Messi know what to do. For something is the best player in the world.