Di María to Messi: “We will always be grateful you chose to be Argentine. You are the greatest in history”

Ángel Di María said Argentina will remain grateful to Lionel Messi for choosing to represent the country, as he delivered an emotional farewell to his longtime national-team teammate.

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It is so difficult to read that you are retiring, so difficult to read that we will no longer see you in the sky blue and white.

Di María wrote that it was difficult to read that Messi was retiring and that Argentines would no longer see him in the national team’s colors. He said he felt fortunate to have lived in the same era as Messi and to have shared so many years with him in the national side.

The message recalled Messi achieving his dreams, especially winning the World Cup. Di María acknowledged that Messi had taken a step that neither he nor Argentines wanted to see, but thanked him for everything he had given the country.

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We will be grateful for the rest of our lives that you are Argentine, that you took Argentina to the top of the world, that you chose to be Argentine, even though you could easily have chosen something else.

“We will be grateful for the rest of our lives that you are Argentine, that you took Argentina to the top of the world, that you chose to be Argentine, even though you could easily have chosen something else,” Di María wrote. He ended by calling Messi eternal and “the best in history.”

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You are eternal and the best in history.