After 16 seasons shining in Barcelona, Lionel Messi will appear this Sunday for the first time in his career with the other club’s shirt, since the Argentine star is in conditions to debut, probably entering the second stage, with the colors of Paris Saint Germain, when the team led by Mauricio Pochettino will appear as a visitor against Reims, at 15:30 (televisa ESPN). The match, which corresponds to the fourth date of Ligue 1, will be played in a packed stadium and with great expectations worldwide.
It will not be another Sunday for the history of football, since Messi’s debut with the PSG shirt does not go unnoticed by anyone on the planet. Seeing the extraordinary footballer with colors other than the Catalan blaugranas or the blue and white of the Argentine national team was not on anyone’s mind, but it can come true in Reims, the capital of French champagne, located about 130 kilometers northeast of Paris.
“We will see how he is and we will define if he plays tomorrow”, said this Saturday the Argentine Pochettino, DT of PSG, who included the star in a call for the first time. “Messi trained very well, he showed a lot of predisposition to work. I see a very motivated Leo, Usually when we incorporate a player I don’t have high expectations but I try to discover it from the time we start to share, and what we are seeing is a great professional, an incredible player who is adapting very well to his new teammates, his new club and his new reality “, the coach highlighted.
In this way, before joining the Argentine National Team for the triple qualifying date for the Qatar World Cup, Messi would be active again after the final of the Copa América, on July 10, when he still assumed that his future would continue in Barcelona.
A lot happened from that moment, first with his separation from the Catalan club and then his quick arrival in Paris, to put himself under Pochettino’s orders and join a squad full of stars and great friends, such as Ángel Di María, Leandro Paredes and Neymar. After a physical conditioning process, the Argentine star is now available to join the tournament leader, that he won his first three games without convincing and adds an ideal score.
While PSG failed to win the title last season, the French League is not the great goal of Messi and the club, who aspire to achieve the long-awaited Champions League. The Parisian team failed in that search in recent seasons and only in 2020 could they reach the final, although they ended up falling in the definition against Bayern Munich. Meanwhile Messi is not on the right foot in the tournament either, with traumatic eliminations in recent seasons: against PSG last edition, the remembered 8-2 beating against Bayern and the thrashing against Liverpool and against Roma after having won comfortably in the first leg matches. Because, With a roster of figures and a team to back him up, the Rosario aspires to lift the trophy he already won in 2006, 2009, 2011 and 2015.
In that context, This Sunday will be the first chapter of a revolution that has already awakened a madness among PSG fans and Messi fans in different parts of the planet, who aspire to see the idol showing his talent with his new colors.
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