Ibai Expresses His True Emotions During Messi Twitch Interview

Ibai Llanos, a Spanish streamer, admitted he was a little anxious when he had the chance to interview football great Lionel Messi.

Ibai has quickly risen to become one of Twitch’s most popular streamers, thanks to exclusive interviews with some of the world’s most famous football players.

On September 15, a New York Times article on the streamer focused on this access. The streamer described how it felt to meet the man who is perhaps the most famous athlete in the world today.

Meeting Messi, much alone interviewing him live on Twitch in front of tens of thousands of fans, is naturally nerve-wracking, and according to Ibai, it was close to overpowering.

“It felt a little like having vertigo,” Llanos said of the Twitch meet and greet, according to the Times. Given the magnitude of the opportunity, it’s understandable that Ibai was a little star-struck.

The streamer had already attended Messi’s Barcelona goodbye party, which the superstar mentioned in a subsequent interview.

When Ibai joked that he had eaten too much at the celebration, the newly-minted PSG star said that he had behaved “extremely well,” barely eating anything.

Messi told the streamer, “I don’t know if you eat a lot or a little, but you didn’t eat anything that day.” “I’m not sure if it was nervousness or anything else.”

As you might guess, Ibai’s relationship with Messi and other great sportsmen is boosting his Twitch and YouTube viewership. For example, nearly 2 million fans came in to witness Messi’s debut match with PSG, which he co-streamed.

We’ll have to see if Ibai can be a bit more cool, calm, and collected the next time he sees Messi or any other big-name footballer now that he’s gone to the top of the mountain and felt like it.