The announcement of his departure had unleashed all passions. This Thursday, August 5, FC Barcelona formalized the end of a story spanning more than 20 years, and made the whole football planet shudder. Who could have imagined Leo Messi, who landed in Catalonia at the age of 13, one day leaving his club of heart?
In any case not Mauro, an Argentinian who accompanied by his two children, walks the aisles of the official Paris Saint-Germain store in search of a Messi flocked jersey this Tuesday. “We are all three Argentines. I love Barça and my children are PSG fans. They’ve been rooming me up a lot the last few days, ”he laughs.
The football GOAT, announced with insistence in Paris since his departure from the Catalan club, should land at Le Bourget airport at any time, that’s in any case what thinks the hundred people gathered on the spot for two days now.
“We can not flock Messi, we have to wait until he is officially a player of the club”
Unfortunately, Mauro’s children will not leave with a Messi flocked jersey. His arrival is not yet formalized, the shops do not have the flocking to his name. “We can not flock Messi, we have to wait until he is officially a player of the club,” said a seller on site to many impatient supporters.
So inevitably, this is disappointed, who must fall back on a Neymar jersey, or Mbappé … Because yes, the club of the capital has experienced arrivals of “stars”. But that of Argentina’s number 10, considered by many football personalities to be the best player of all time, seems even more resounding. “It’s even stronger than Neymar, I never could have thought about it,” says a supporter, the stars in his eyes.
“It’s not every day that a living legend signs in your club”, finally explains Ines, a young supporter present at the Champs-Elysées store, which sums up in the best possible way the enthusiasm around the probable arrival of Lionel Messi in the City of Light.