Argentina football legend, Lionel Messi, has spoken about his regret over not learning the English language.
Messi has never played in the Premier League, featuring for Barcelona for over two decades, before moving to Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Miami.
The 39-year-old has now admitted that he had the chance to learn the language and didn’t take it.
“I regret many things. To not have learned English as a boy. I had the time to have at least studied English and I didn’t do it. I deeply regret it,” Messi said.
“I experienced situations where I was with incredible and spectacular personalities to be able to talk and have a chat and you feel half ignorant. “I always thought: ‘What an idiot, how I wasted my time.’
“When you’re young, you don’t realise it. Today that’s what I tell my children, having a good education, to study and be prepared.
“I always tell my children to take advantage of it. They have a different situation to the one I had although I never lacked anything…”