In a brief interview conceded to "BeIN Sports", Gerardo Martino has spoken on his stage in the Barça before the arrival of Luis Enrique, during the season 2013-14, and in particular on how tried to convince to Leo Messi that had rest in some parties to arrive the coolest possible to the final stretch of the campaign, and also to the World-wide of Brazil 2014.
"Messi lives of a very calm way and on the terrain of game, the same", ensures in the first place Gerardo Martino, that also had under his orders to Leo Messi in the selection of Argentina. The "Tata" has explained how tried that Leo Messi rested in the FC Barcelona, especially in parties that already were resolved.
"I understood that Messi had to rest in parties that already were resolved"
"I understood that he had to rest. The importance to play seventy or ninety minutes in parties in which you went winning 6-0 was little. I thought: "and if lesiona and lose it of face to the important parties?". In the first turn understood it quite well. As arañar 20 minutes of here and 25 from here added a whole party of rest".
Martino, besides, had the luck that the World-wide of 2014 was just around the corner, and Leo Messi pretended to arrive in the best physical state possible to the big international appointment. "I had an important help, that was the World-wide of Brazil, and he wanted to arrive well to the appointment", remembers. At the end, the season finish with any important title for the Barça, and with Messi losing the final of the World-wide against Germany.