. Argentine star Lionel Messi has revealed that he doubts whether he will play football for a long time after the death of his father. <\/p>\n
Messi said he was “deeply affected” by his father’s death and said he was not sure if he would continue playing football for a long time.<\/p>\n
Messi wrote an emotional message on Facebook after the death of his father Jorge Messi and said that he has played football all his life but now there is a lot of doubt about his future. <\/p>\n
“I’ve only played football so far and I don’t know if I’m going to play it for a very long time,” Messi wrote. <\/p>\n
For Messi, his father, George, wasn’t just a parent.<\/p>\n
He was an important friend, mentor and representative of Messi’s football journey since childhood. Messi said that his father’s support from training to competition has been an important part of his life. <\/p>\n
Messi said he didn’t know how to move forward after his father’s death.<\/p>\n
He recalled that he used to talk to his father almost every day and meet as much as possible in the midst of his business commitments. <\/p>\n
Messi said his father always encouraged him to play in the World Cup.<\/p>\n
He recalled that he assured his father that he would reach the final and watch the match live after his health deteriorated a few days before the World Cup. <\/p>\n
Messi said his dad loved watching him play, and that as a child, Messi used to take him to training when he came home from work and never missed his game. Messi remembered his father as his “father, friend and representative”.<\/p>\n
He said that he would pass on the education and values given by his father to his children. Messi’s uncertainty about his football career after his father’s death has sparked a new debate about his upcoming sporting journey. However, he has not announced his retirement from football immediately. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
. Argentine star Lionel Messi has revealed that he doubts whether he will play football for a long time after the death of his father. Messi said he was “deeply affected” by his father’s death and said he was not sure if he would continue playing football for a long time. Messi wrote an emotionalContinue reading “I doubt if I’ll keep playing football for too long: Messi”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":87408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-samachar-en"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/photo_d09ec677.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87425,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87424\/revisions\/87425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/87408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}