2023-12-19 15:04:51
19/12/2023 10:04hs.
Two and a half years after his departure from Barcelonathe name of Lionel Messi It continues to be the agenda and news in the Catalan community. In the last hours, the president of the institution, John Laporta, He was consulted about the pending tribute to the best player in the club’s history, who could not say goodbye to the fans at the time of his departure, and He assured that the event will take place whenever Leo wants, although he conditioned its realization on the opening of the Camp Nou.
“We are open to doing it whenever they want. Messi is the best player in history and, because we respect and admire him, of course he deserves a tribute in Can Barsa,” said the president, regarding who is the player with most games played for the club (778), most goals scored (672), most assists distributed (305) and most titles won (35).
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Furthermore, in dialogue with EFE he acknowledged that after the return of the 10 could not be completed in this market, after his departure from the Paris Saint Germain, the aforementioned tribute ““he stayed a little in Limbo.”
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Along the same lines, the president gave his version of the reasons why Leo finally did not return to the Catalan team: “In the end it didn’t happen, because What he told us was totally logical: that because of the pressure he had been under in Paris, he preferred to go to Inter Miami, because that would give him some stability. “A decision we respect.”
Returning to the question about the tribute, Laporta did not give a probable date for the event, but conditioned it on the reopening of the Camp Nou: “I don’t know if it will be when we return to the Camp Nou at the end of 2024 or when the stadium is completely built by July 2026”.
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At the time of its reopening, the Camp Nou will have capacity for 70,000 spectators and, however, when the work is complete it will have 105,000 seats. “There will be time to talk about it,” summarized Laporta who dHe ruled out, however, that Messi could play an official match again with Barcelona on loan from Inter Miami. “News of all kinds come out, but I believe that this is not even allowed by FIFA,” sentenced
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