Spanish → English transcript

…another title in your trophy case, how does it feel

to win the MLS Cup for the first time?

Hi, well, thank you very much. Uh, really, honestly

I’m happy, you know?

Happy because… because it was an important objective

for us to be able to win

this championship… honestly, it is

very important for the growth of

the club, from our arrival that… that it was

one goal was to be able to be MLS champions and

to be able to celebrate it here at home, with

the people of Miami, honestly it is a a

huge joy and… and well, we are happy to have

achieved it. Without a doubt your arrival to this

team has revolutionized it not only in the media,

but also competitively. It is already three titles,

Messi: Supporters' Shield, Leagues Cup, now

the MLS Cup. What else do you still need to win with

this franchise?

Well, honestly, to compete, right?

The important thing is that this club is...

…uh among the big clubs in the Americas, that it can

compete in all the competitions. This

year we have done it… because we reached the

Leagues Cup final, we reached the Concachampions

semifinal… we also had to take part

in the Club World Cup, we did a very very

very good job too… much more than what was

expected from us, and we ended up winning

MLS, which in the end is… is the main thing

and the most desired by everyone. As you

said, since we arrived, uh, there have been three

major titles, and we have to keep… uh trying,

getting more next year so that

the club… the club keeps growing as

in the way he is doing it. MVP of the

match, two assists… I also wanted to ask you,

earlier you were saying that you wanted to give this title

as a farewell gift, right?

To Jordi Alba, to Sergio Busquets… they are

teammates of a thousand battles with you at Barça,

now here. I do not know if you knew, but Sergio Bus…

uh, Jordi Alba was your fifth-best partner,

the one who gave you, I think, 51 assists in your

career, and Busquets the one with whom you… …most

often shared the pitch. How do you feel about

these two footballers leaving you?

No, honestly I am grateful to have shared

practically my entire career with…

uh, with them, to finish this way

together… uh, when we got here from the

beginning the three of us did it, we did it the

three of us together at the same time and… …and the goal

was this, right?

To help the club grow, it was it was

risky, it was a… …an important challenge

for us, for the team, for the club,

for the people… …and and we achieved it,

right?

And I think there is no better way they can

retire… …uh celebrating, winning one

more title. Obviously I am going to I am going to miss them

a lot… …not only on the pitch

but in everyday life, because we shared a lot

together… …uh it has been many years of career

living through many things, I am very fond of them,

I love them very much and… …and now just wish them

the best, they are going to start enjoying other

things, they are going to have much more time to…

…to live in a different way and to leave a little bit

apart from the day-to-day of soccer and that is it, to wish them…

…to always wish them the best. And is there going to be

some kind of special celebration?

Because it just happens to be their farewell, the title

in Miami. How are you going to celebrate?

Honestly I do not know, we did not have anything planned,

we do not like to plan anything in advance, but

I suppose yes, that… that we are going to do

something, we are at least going to get together and

and have a good time for a while and be able to… …enjoy

this title that cost us a lot because

it was a very very long year with so many

matches, so… so we are definitely going

going to do something. With a little barbecue, I think.

I do not know if the barbecue will be today, but maybe tomorrow

the barbecue. Today we are going to get together in another way.

Hey, and the last one, the last one, the last one and I’ll…

I let go. Uh, in this Messi–Müller rivalry

that is also good for soccer… …for

Major League Soccer to have you guys as uh

protagonists in this match, what can you

tell me?

No, nothing, honestly uh it is a joy that

he decided to uh come play in the league

in the United States as well, like I said at the start…

…of the match, yesterday or the day before, I do not remember,

uh his arrival gave this team more stature…

…which is a very very good team,

that plays very well, they had already knocked us

out in the semifinals of the Concachampions…

…and at times they took control of the match, I think

we made it uh two to one at just the right moment

because they were… …they were coming at us,

in fact they had a very clear chance to go

in front… …and and nothing, happy that happy

that he is here in the league, that we can face them

and, well, just be able to… to have also won

and celebrated. Congratulations, Messi.