Your team always plays, even when it's not playing, as is the case with the World Cup, and even more so when a homegrown player like Leo Messi takes to the field. One is very happy for Messi's dazzling debut in the World Cup, but the unhealed wound of his surprise departure is felt again, and against what then-candidate Jan Laporta explained to the members in the 2021 electoral campaign.
The sting is not about the results, for either side. For the player, things are going well in a minor competition like the North American soccer league, and in a city like Miami where he seems to have found, in every sense, the life he was looking for and couldn't find in Paris. And Barça, since the Argentine left, almost five years ago, has won three La Ligas, one Copa del Rey, and three Supercopas, but, above all, it has known how to make a virtue of necessity and has put together a team with so much present and future that it continues to be the base of the Spanish national team and has in Lamine Yamal another jewel of global impact manufactured at La Masia.
with Argentina in the debut of his sixth World Cup. Still Messi.
The goodbyes of stars are never easy, but that one certainly wasn't the right one. Perhaps one day Messi will officially represent Barça again. For now, five years after leaving, he has scored a hat-trick with Argentina in his sixth World Cup debut. Still Messi.
