Barça has signed Leo Messi again (but he doesn't know it yet). "I was very excited to return," declared the Argentine star, who was so excited to return to the Barça club that he, in the end, decided to announce that he will play for Inter Miami. But it is not a mistake, since this city of Florida is officially the American branch of the famous exiles of Barcelona, with Shakira and company. So Barça has signed Leo Messi again (but he doesn't know it yet).
Before Messi left Paris by foot, after his sour adventure at PSG for petrodollars, there was already speculation that he would return to Barça, who has ended up signing him (although he doesn't know it yet). We might think that the Argentine has declined to put on the barretina again and that he has exchanged the Qatari bisht for the luxuries of the Beckhams, but nothing is further from the truth.
Because, it is not known what happens with the Barça players, but whenever they leave, they affirm that they want to return in the future to be linked, in one way or another, to the club, be it as coaches, ambassadors, sports directors, presidents or whatever as long as they continue to earn when they retire and have a hobby that entertains them and that does not separate them from the front line of soccer.
"Obviously I will live in Barcelona. It is one of the things that we are very clear about with my wife and my children. And hopefully, I don't know at what moment or what or when, but hopefully one day I can contribute something to the club and help because it is a club that I love as I always said. I appreciate the love I had from people during my career and I would like to be here again, yes", Messi has sentenced, because he has signed again for Barça (but he still does not know it).
His words are in line with others who have predicted that they would return, such as Sergio Busquets, who has even been awarded a job: "I would like to coach Barça one day."
Messi has decided to cross the gate to the Americas, which is how Miami has been known since Pan American Airways advertised the city as Gateway to the Americas. In fact, this company ushered in the modern era of aviation with the Miami Dinner Key Flying Clippers. Thanks to the aeronautical industry, this city came out of the economic depression of 1929 before the rest of the country. And that of being an antidote to alleviate the bad times seems to still survive, since Messi is going to end up there after "two years that at a family level I have not been well", as he has revealed.
You won't even have to speak English, just like at Barça you didn't have to speak Catalan, because in Miami Spanish is on almost everyone's lips (as of 2008, native Spanish speakers represented 69.4% of the inhabitants, while English is spoken by 25.45%). Therefore, unlike Paris, where everyone speaks French, in Miami it will feel like Barcelona, because Leo has signed again for Barça (but he doesn't know it yet).
Next season, miles away, Messi's teammates will play in exile (Olympic, yes) at the Montjuïc stadium, while the Argentine will do so in the golden retreat of Fort Lauderdale. The best player in the world will not even play football, but soccer, although surely his figure will end up renamed Major League Soccer as Messi League Soccer.
Next season MLS could become a graveyard of elephants for former Barca players, although others have already led the way, such as Thierry Henry (New York Red Bulls), Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Los Angeles Galaxy), Víctor Vázquez (Toronto FC), David Villa (New York City FC), Rafael Márquez (New York Red Bulls) or the brothers Giovani and Jonathan dos Santos (Los Angeles Galaxy).
But, at Barça, that spirit of great comebacks in Champions League matches is still alive and of seeing how the youth players succeed and become the best in the world.
And it is that, in a very difficult year for the club, they have once again reigned in Europe, starring in a spectacular final in which they started losing and, in a memorable second half, ended up winning the Champions League 3-2 against Wolfsburg. But, this sporting feat like the ones before, does not bear the stamp of Pedri, nor Gavi, nor Lewandowski, but of Patri Guijarro, Aitana Bonmatí or Mariona Caldentey.
Because Messi has signed for Barça again (but what he still doesn't know is that he is no longer the Barca star, but Alexia Putellas).
