Big disappointment ahead for FC Barcelona supporters. Indeed, Sport announces that Lionel Messi should not be present next Friday at the Gran Teatre del Liceu to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the culé club. Invited by the current leader of La Liga, like many legends, to participate in this event, the Argentinian will ultimately not find Joan Laporta, with whom relations have now been strained since his departure in 2021. If a video of the champion of the world 2022 should obviously be recorded, it will still not have the same flavor.
However, Mundo Deportivo reveals that Barcelona's position is very clear in the face of this absence: it is a question of celebrating the anniversary of the club and not of a few. In other words, Barça belongs to all those who defended its values which are “the idea of a plural, inclusive, open club, with clear roots and a sense of football beyond winning for the sake of winning“. While it is true that Messi is a big piece of the Blaugrana's successful history, the focus should be on the crest. So it is Barca who should be celebrated.
Messi absent for the club's 125th anniversary?
Besides, that doesn't stop the Argentinian international from still feeling just as much love for his favorite club: “My children are Catalan. I spent my whole life living there. In fact, I feel like I belong to Barcelona. My family and I always think about the possibility of moving back there one day, because my children, my wife and I miss life in Barcelona so much. We miss our friends and the many things we left behind” he confided for the show “El nou clam” on TV3 before praising the current team under Hansi Flick: “I find them spectacular, and that doesn't surprise me, because it's not something new. It's always been like this, or at least since I arrived in Barcelona when I was 13. I find it spectacular that young people have had the opportunity to play for several years. When they are given a chance and trusted, they respond this way because they know the club better than anyone, and because they are used to playing this way since they were children. And when we accompany them, this kind of thing happens, as it has happened in other times as well.“
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To summarize
Lionel Messi would have made a huge decision. Which would have led to a reaction from FC Barcelona. Big disappointment ahead for FC Barcelona supporters. Indeed, Sport announces that Lionel Messi should not be present next Friday at the Gran Teatre del Liceu to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the culé club.
