There is a place in the world where Lionel Messi’s arrival at Paris Saint-Germain especially hurts, who greeted the Argentine with a dizzying excursion on a day when he underwent a medical check-up, donned his new colors and greeted his new fans with a pure smile. It’s in Spain, more specifically in Barcelona, land where the ace Rosario grew up in football and took charge of making the culé club immense and golden, with which he won 35 titles.
And is that with his exciting journey of arrival at PSG – although an official presentation is scheduled for this Wednesday – what was closed, at least for now, was his historic stage in the Catalan institution. An incredible ending for those who still blink and pinch themselves to believe what is happening. And is that until the last hours before his arrival at the French club they lived in pure transcendence of a possible offer from Barcelona to retain the idol. Reality prevailed, first with her tears and then with the scenes that PSG made official on their networks. Also with the words of Rosário’s own father, Jorge Messi, who indicated with his voice the Catalan club when he was consulted about his son’s departure. “Find out at the club”, he sentenced.
The truth is that the departure of the six-times winner of the Ballon d’Or is an absence that this Tuesday began to be felt strongly in the Blaugrana scene. Starting with the journalists who, used to welcoming their colleagues, this time had to mobilize to cover the most important news of the star’s recent days. Spanish media debuted as strangers of Messi’s new days, but also conveyed their feelings of regret, nostalgia and even surprise with the composition of the new scene.
“Messi signs for PSG… And it hurts!” is the cover that this Wednesday offers the sports newspaper Sport for the culé fans, in a feeling shared by a football that already misses the magic of Argentine crack. The portal Brand in the beginning of the Spanish morning, he carried out a central note entitled with a significant text from Rosario: “Everything at the club matches my football ambitions.”
sports world, the renowned sports media from Barcelona, was perhaps the one who chose one of the most symbolic covers to portray the first day of Messi’s new life, the one in which the Blaugrana universe is no longer the axis. “C’est fini”, it reads, above the image of the happy Argentine, in his new shirt, in the Parque de los Príncipes. “It’s over.” Because Messi’s story with the coolie team has finally ended its chapter, which will now also make Barcelona fans know what it feels like to be simply witnesses to the magic of Rosario. Something that may look a little bit, but it’s still wonderful.
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