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Barcelona: ‘He refused to greet me’ – Laporta says his relationship with Messi strained
Former Barcelona President, Joan Laporta, has said that Lionel Messi snubbed him at a Ballon d’Or ceremony, which made him understand that their friendship will never be the same again.
He suggested that he and the Argentine will never be in a cordial relationship again following the manner in which the player left on his own in 2021.
Messi left his boyhood club, Barça to join Paris Saint-Germain and later Inter Miami in the USA Major League Soccer.
Laporta said he met Messi in person after Messi left Barcelona, and they met at the Ballon d’Or ceremony two years later in 2023.
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