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Messi did not appear in training on Monday
Messi missed Barcelona’s first training session of the new season on Monday, days after his shocking announcement that he wants to leave the only club he has played for professionally.
Messi did not show up for the session, the first with Barcelona’s new coach, Ronald Koeman, was highly anticipated after the 33-year-old Argentine also did not appear for a pre-season medical test and an RT-PCR coronavirus test on Sunday. Images from Reuters television showed the players arriving for the session that began at 5:30 p.m. local time and Messi did not appear.
Fans who waited outside the training field on Monday were divided over Messi’s decision. “I really want Messi to stay,” Brazilian Fabio Alfredo Suárez told Reuters.
“Messi lives in my heart, it is a pity that he leaves, I wanted him to go through the main door of the club.”
Spaniard Ivan Antolín Beltrán recalled that Barça had helped Messi in the early stages of his career.
“After everything that Barça has given to Messi throughout his career, who started here as a child … they paid him for all his medicines and everything … I think his way of behaving is a bit wrong”, said.
