Inter Miami ahead Lionel Messi has mentioned he misses Barcelona as a part of an interview to mark the membership’s one hundred and twenty fifth anniversary on Friday.
Messi first joined Barça as a teen in 2000 and spent 21 years on the membership, occurring to turn into the all-time main look maker and objective scorer with 672 targets in 778 video games.
“Congratulations to Barça on their one hundred and twenty fifth anniversary,” Messi mentioned in an interview with TV3 which aired to coincide with the day the Swiss-born Joan Gamper based the membership at a gymnasium within the metropolis 1899.
“It is an honour to be a part of the membership, to be a Barça fan. I’m fortunate that God led me there and I used to be capable of spend most of my life at such an exquisite membership.
“It is a particular membership, completely different to the remainder, with the difficulties that poses in the mean time, given how issues are managed in soccer nowadays.
“They modified the whole lot and as we speak the membership is represented in the best way we would like. We like the primary staff, we’re massively proud [to see the youngsters there].
“I miss the membership so much, town, the folks, the love … And, as all the time, I hope issues preserve going effectively and we are able to preserve making this nice membership even higher.”
Since their founding 125 years in the past, Barça have gained a mixed complete of 36 LaLiga and Liga F titles and eight UEFA Champions League crowns throughout their males’s and ladies’s groups.
Messi was a part of 10 of these LaLiga titles and 4 Champions League successes earlier than leaving for Paris Saint-Germain in 2021.
The 37-year-old named 2009 — when Barça gained LaLiga, the Champions League, Copa del Rey, UEFA Tremendous Cup, Spanish Supercopa and the Membership World Cup — as his spotlight on the membership.
“The 12 months we gained the six trophies,” Messi mentioned when requested for his finest second. “You take pleasure in daily, coaching, video games … going out to play and figuring out how the video games would finish.
“We had a lot confidence that we had been going to win. It was a 12 months I actually loved and I believe everybody else did, too.”
Barça will mark their anniversary with a particular gala on the Gran Teatre del Liceu, simply off La Rambla within the metropolis, on Friday. Round 2,000 folks have been invited to the occasion, many with hyperlinks to the membership’s storied previous.
First staff coach Hansi Flick and his gamers can be amongst these current. The German supervisor, who took cost in the summertime, says he can already see the explanation Barça’s motto is ‘Més que un membership’ (Greater than a membership).
“This membership is wonderful, it is actually unbelievable,” Flick mentioned in a information convention on Friday.
“Since I arrived I mentioned it, it has impressed me so much all of the issues right here. Now, some days later, my teaching workers, we are able to actually work in freedom, they do the whole lot what we’d like. It is a actually good scenario.
“All of the followers, after I stroll via the road, it is wonderful how they converse with me, how they’re very type about us, about my staff, my colleagues and me. It is actually a pleasure to be right here, to work for this membership. And it is greater than a membership, sure, I can say that.
“It is a large honour to be a Barça coach. I do know very well the historical past of this wonderful membership. We can be on the celebration as we speak, additionally the gamers are there, and we are able to get a sense about that.”
