Where he will play next is not yet official, but Lionel Messi put the only team he has laved for behind him Sunday,saying goodbye to Barcelona in a tearful news conference at Camp Nou stadium.
"My family and I were convinced we were going to stay here, at home," Messi said via the BBC." This is the end with this club, and now a new story will begin. Yes, it's one of the most difficult moments for me. I don't want to leave this club-it's a club I love, and this is a moment I didn't expect. It was like my blood ran cold."
The moment bad been blooming since June 30.when Messi became a free agent, and fans lined the streets outside the stadium, with team members joining him for the news conference. A famous medium ESPN reported Sunday, from unnamed sources, that he had a two-year agreement to join another club. Paris Saint-Germain in France. On Sunday Messi called a ParisSaint-Germain move "a possibility" but added:" I have not agreed anything with anyone. I have got different clubs interested. Nothing is definitive, but clearly we are talking to them.'
Messi noted that he arrived in Barcelona 21 years ago coming to Spain from his native Argentina when he was 13 and making his first-team debut (首秀) a 17-vear-old in October 2004. He scored 672 goals in 778 games as Barcelona won 34 trophies. "I cannot be more proud of everything I did and lived in this city."
He insisted that he had done all he could to stay, agreeing to a five-year deal that was half of his $170 million annual contract. But it all fell apart, and Barcelona president Joan Laporta said Friday that trying to keep Messi was a "risky" investment that would have hurt the club for 50 years.