Beckham: “When we got Messi I cried – I was afraid we had signed his… brother”

In the summer of 2023, the Inter Miamihis (co)ownership group David Beckhamwent viral as he managed the… impossible, i.e. to convince him Lionel Messi to leave Europe and compete in MLS.

The English star, in fact, revealed in an interview the background of the agreement with the Argentine, referring both to distrust that he had managed to complete such a deal, as well as in the big one emotion of him, which… was misunderstood by his wife Victoria.

“I was in Japan with Victoria and it was 4-5 in the morning when my phone started ringing non-stop. Victoria shook me and told me to shut it up, but I looked at the messages and saw that Messi had decided to sign in Miami. I cried because it’s… Leo. The greatest player of all time. Then Victoria asked me why I was crying and if someone died”commented the veteran English midfielder.

At the same time, with a large dose of humor, Beckham mentioned how “we had to meet him at the airport, until he got off I thought we might have signed his brother”stressing that…he couldn’t believe that he managed to complete this transfer.

David Beckham shares the story of how he found out Messi was coming to Inter Miami. pic.twitter.com/kkJrakGnfi

— R ? (@Lionel30i) March 22, 2024