Does Lionel Messi have a romance with an Argentine journalist? She reveals the truth
Yasmine Green
Dailysports's expert
Translated by the editors
Sports journalist Sofi Martinez has addressed rumors linking her romantically with Lionel Messi, reports The Sun. Martinez appeared on the program PH: Podemos Hablar, where she clarified the situation.
Martinez firmly denied any suggestions that her relationship with Messi is anything but strictly professional. As part of her job, she interviewed him several times, during which some fans claimed to have noticed "flirty glances" between them.
“A lot of the time when your exposure increases, it brings things that aren't so good and my family suffers a lot. This year, people began to talk more and more about, "What's up with the way he looks at you," things like this, and I was caught in the middle of something that made me feel ridiculous to have to clarify,” Martinez explained.
The journalist suggested that these rumors stemmed from her gender, as no one would question Messi’s interactions with male journalists in the same way.
Neither Messi nor his wife, Antonela Roccuzzo, has commented on the matter so far.
