Leo, tell us what eternity is like

One day it will happen. Although hindered by the possible circumstances. Although it hurts for the loss. Although nostalgia, so troublesome, starts to work sooner than expected. Lionel Messi will one day stop being a professional player. The end is written like everything responsible for writing that annoying biological clock that never stops the needles and doesn’t ask for a minute, time out, like in basketball.

It will be said, by way of formal consolation, that farewell is the “law of life”, despite no one knowing the editor of that rule that forces you to finish whatever you start. In the middle, as usual, they will accuse one side and the other, trying to be victim or accuser for the alleged culprits. Entertainment, unlike a contract, is extended.

So much will be said and written that truths and lies will collide more than once under the tent of this media circus. Of course, after those first days, those first weeks or those first months, tell us what eternity is like, dear Leo. How does it feel to be eternal? What’s it like to know you’ll never leave football…