Inter Miami ahead Lionel Messi has mentioned he misses Barcelona as a part of an interview to mark the club’s 125th anniversary on Friday.
Messi first joined Barça as an adolescent in 2000 and spent 21 years on the membership, happening to change into the all-time main look maker and objective scorer with 672 targets in 778 video games.
“Congratulations to Barça on their a hundred and twenty fifth anniversary,” Messi said 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, totally different to the remaining, with the difficulties that poses in the mean time, given how issues are managed in soccer today.
“They modified every part and immediately the membership is represented in the best way we would like. We like the primary workforce, we’re massively proud [to see the youngsters there].
“I miss the membership rather a lot, the town, the individuals, the love … And, as at all times, I hope issues preserve going effectively and we are able to preserve making this nice membership even better.”
Since their founding 125 years in the past, Barça have received a combined total of 36 LaLiga and Liga F titles and eight UEFA Champions League crowns throughout their males’s and girls’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 received 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 received the six trophies,” Messi mentioned when requested for his finest second. “You get pleasure from every single day, coaching, video games … going out to play and understanding 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 feel 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 individuals have been invited to the occasion, many with hyperlinks to the membership’s storied previous.
First workforce coach Hansi Flick and his gamers might be amongst these current. The German supervisor, who took cost in the summertime, says he can already see the rationale Barça’s motto is ‘Més que un membership’ (Greater than a membership).
“This membership is superb, it is actually unbelievable,” Flick mentioned in a information convention on Friday.
“Since I arrived I mentioned it, it has impressed me rather a lot all of the issues right here. Now, some days later, my teaching employees, we are able to actually work in freedom, they do every part what we want. It is a actually good state of affairs.
“All of the followers, after I stroll via the road, it is superb how they converse with me, how they’re very sort about us, about my workforce, 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 massive honour to be a Barça coach. I do know rather well the historical past of this superb membership. We might be on the celebration immediately, additionally the gamers are there, and we are able to get a sense about that.”
