For the first time since 2021, Lionel Messi returns to Barcelona
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The management of Barcelona and personally the president, Joan Laporta, are in contact with Lionel Messi to return to Barcelona for the first time, after his departure in the summer of 2021 for Paris Saint-Germain.
The Argentine superstar joined the Spanish squad in 2000 aged just 13 and then made his debut in 2004, with Frank Rijkaard on the bench, and made history in their shirt.
Messi and 125 years of Barcelona
But relations between the two sides had cooled since the day he left and Laporta invited him back for one night, for the Catalan club’s 125th birthday, at the event to be held next week (29/11) at the Liceu Theater of Barcelona.
Xavi, Iniesta, and Pep Guardiola will be present at this celebration. According to the radio “Catalunya Radio’s Tot Costa” Messi has accepted the invitation of the team, with which he associated his name, having a total of 520 appearances and 474 goals, and is expected to know the deification.
Messi: “I’m not sure what I want to do in the future”
Lionel Messi has joined Fabrizio Romano and said he has not decided what he will do after his career ends.
At the same time, “Pulga” made it clear that for now he is only thinking about living everyday life and has not decided what he would like to do in the future, while as he mentioned he does not see himself in the position of coach.
Messi’s statements
“I wouldn’t want to be a coach, but I’m still not sure what I’d like to do in the future. I appreciate a lot more than before everything I do on a daily basis, so I just think about playing, training and having fun.”
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