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The original was posted on /r/soccer by /u/DavidRolands on 2025-09-27 12:26:53+00:00.
Original Title: Pablo Aimar on Lionel Messi’s availability to play: “I used to say: ‘Saturday at 4pm, Barcelona plays. Saturday at 4, make the tea, get some cake & watch Messi.’. He never failed you. Sometimes you go to the movies & the film is good or bad. But Messi, Federer, or Michael Jordan never let you down”
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Pablo Aimar: “The most incredible thing is about Messi is that he was always the plan. I used to say: ‘Saturday at 4pm, Barcelona plays. Saturday at 4, make the tea, get some cake, and watch Messi.’ He never failed you. Sometimes you go to the movies and the film is good, sometimes it’s not. But Messi, Roger Federer, or Michael Jordan, they never failed you.
“Messi must think there’s still some little kid who has never seen him play, so he says: ‘Let’s do something special so that kid leaves with a memory.’ It’s extraordinary. I don’t know how he found the formula to stop time. It’s incredible.”