It is a bitter pill to swallow for most teams. Now aged 32, the Argentine’s post-Barcelona career continues to be a … "From 19 pm to 21 pm we offer a rich, abundant and warm dish so we can go to sleep all full, and with a happy heart."Lionel Messi's family restaurant in his native Argentina is helping the homeless by providing free meals, drinks and coats to many struggling as the country faces a dangerous cold spell. ... it remains to be seen whether that would spell retirement or the unprecedented step of moving elsewhere. Nowadays he plays for Algerian top division side CR Belouizdad.In 2015 he was snapped up by Real Madrid, who kept him in the Castilla squad for two seasons before sending him on loan to Heerenveen in the Dutch Eredivisie between January 2017 and May 2018.Only a few seasons later, the benchmark was changed: a new generation of skilful young attackers would be dubbed not the ‘new Maradona’ but the ‘new Messi’, a tag that has proven bloody hard to live up to… — Reuters pic. Lionel Messi gets the modern vote. But he would make no first-team appearances at the club before heading back to Spain two years later to join Racing Santander.In fairness, he has more in common with Lionel Messi than Minty the Badger.A few seasons after Bojan’s debut, another hot prospect emerged in the form of Israeli midfielder Gai Assulin, who was compared to Messi after excelling at Barcelona B.Four years on Merseyside produced no first-team appearances, and short spells followed at Blackpool, Huesca in Spain, Tranmere, non-league side Whitehawk and Accrington Stanley.In 2016, Barcelona sold Halilović to Hamburg, who then loaned the player to Las Palmas for 18 months.Three years after Messi’s debut, Real Madrid thought they had fostered their own version of the Argentine phenomenon: 16-year-old Gerardo Bruna.Branded the ‘Japanese Messi’ and ‘Ryodinho’ after a successful loan spell with Feyenoord in 2011, Arsenal’s Ryo Miyaichi seemed destined for big things.The 23-year-old moved to AC Milan in the summer of 2018 but has since been loaned out to Standard Liege and Heerenveen. Barcelona’s treatment of their other players Carles Alena and Caeles Perez has been nothing short of an abomination. Barcelona will thoroughly miss the Argentine’s services, as any club obviously would.
A MOVE to Major League Soccer is one option being contemplated by Lionel Messi, according to reports in Spain. The soccer star returned to Rosario alongside Argentina teammates Ángel Di María, Giovani Lo Celso, and Franco Armani, on Saturday after claiming third place in the Copa América.VIP has been offering warm food and drinks from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. each night since last Friday.Almada added that they will continue giving out free meals and drinks for the next 15 days. Messi is now just a goal shy of scoring 700 times for both club and country.The current board led by Josep Maria Bartomeu has shown itself to be inadequate to rise to the levels expected of a club such as Barcelona. In 2019 he signed for Monreal Impact in MLS.In 2018 he moved to Boca Juniors after making just three first-team appearances at Watford.A year later, the Scot signed for Sporting Lisbon for £3million. Lionel Messi - Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini (Spanish pronunciation: [ljoˈnel anˈdɾez ˈmesi] (listen); born 24 June 1987) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward and captains both Sp Skilful dribblers, particularly short and left-footed ones, tend to get labelled the ‘next Lionel Messi’.