Legendary Italian defender Alessandro Nesta has been talking about facing Lionel Messi and how he was “mentally destroyed” by the Barcelona star when the two teams clashed in the Champions League.
Nesta won pretty much everything going during a phenomenal career in Serie A and was part of the Italy squad that lifted the 2006 World Cup. The defender came up against Messi towards the end of his career and admitted it was tough going.
“The thing that made me depressed is that he had left ten times in ten minutes and I was starting to struggle at 37,” he said.