“I have to say in my favor that calling the dog Messi was more my brother and dad’s idea than mine. I’m cleaning my hands of it [the naming of the dog], I’m a Madridista and that’s that. I don’twalk him anymore. Imagine me calling him Messi in the streets.”

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