Aug 8, 2021 · An era beginning with the iconic moment in 2000 when a 13-year-old Argentine wunderkind called Lionel Messi signed for Barcelona on a napkin ended when he confirmed he was leaving the team –...

Aug 8, 2021 · Soccer icon Lionel Messi fought back tears Sunday as he bid a painful farewell to FC Barcelona. "I'm not ready for this," Messi, 34, said during a news conference at the club's stadium, Camp...

Aug 8, 2021 · With a broken heart, Leo Messi has said goodbye to FC Barcelona in an emotional press conference accompanied by his family, members of the Barça first team and in which he declared his...

Aug 8, 2021 · Messi said he hopes to return to Barcelona in some capacity one day and that he wished he could have said goodbye to fans in a match with a capacity crowd chanting his name. He said it was sad to leave after not being able to play in front of fans for nearly a year and a half.

Aug 8, 2021 · A tearful Lionel Messi confirmed on Sunday he was leaving FC Barcelona after the club said it could no longer afford to pay its Argentine superstar's high wages without jeopardizing its future.

Aug 8, 2021 · Lionel Messi was in tears as he bade farewell to FC Barcelona - but said he has not yet decided on his future. "I'm so grateful for the love people have shown me these years," he told a news ...

Aug 8, 2021 · He said it was sad to leave after not being able to play in front of fans for almost a year and a half. The nearly 3,000 fans who attended Barcelona’s exhibition match against Juventus later Sunday loudly chanted Messi’s name when the squad was introduced. Some held up his No. 10 jersey.

Aug 15, 2021 · With everyone having expected Lionel Messi's contract signing with FC Barcelona to be a foregone conclusion, news dropped that he would not be returning to his club of 21 years. Here are the...

Aug 9, 2021 · Messi and Barcelona are synonymous—symbiotic, even—and yet his last years playing at the Camp Nou have been deflating.

Aug 8, 2021 · Lionel Messi opened up on the reasons for his departure from Barcelona after saying an emotional goodbye to the Catalan giants on Sunday at a farewell press conference at the Camp Nou.