The new Champions League intro video has been released and USMNT fans will be happy to know Christian Pulisic made the final cut. Pulisic’s grand cameo comes in at the end of the video with the Chelsea trophy lift.
New UCL *Updated* Intro [@truthseeker_9] #CFC pic.twitter.com/MoVTmcxy05
PARIS — Lionel Messi dashed any thoughts of him taking it easy in his later years as he set his sights on leading new club Paris St Germain to their first ever Champions League title at his presentation in France on Wednesday.
The Argentine forward, 34, had agreed to stay at former club Barcelona after his deal expired at the end of June, only for the Spanish club to admit they could no longer afford him last week.
He signed a two year deal with an option for a third with the Parisians on Tuesday.
While Lionel Messi's departure marks the end of an era for Barcelona, there is plenty more to be resolved at the Nou Camp before the season gets under way:
MONEY ISSUES
Barcelona has a gross debt of over one billion euros ($1.17 billion) and years of profligate spending meant they flew too close to the sun once too often.
Even without the Argentine, their salary mass accounts for 95 percent of all income — in football, it is considered viable and healthy to have your wages to income at a maximum ratio of 70 percent.
Ligue 1 gets a lot of shit these days. As the fifth-best league in Europe, it’s often derided as a “farmer’s league” by the snobbier football fans. Anyone who has actually paid attention to Ligue 1 over the last few years knows this isn’t the case. With the addition of Lionel Messi to the league now official, here are five reasons you should watch Ligue 1 not named Messi.
París es una locura. Después de cerrar su legendario capítulo junto al Barcelona, Lionel Messi viajó a la capital francesa para sellar su fichaje con el PSG. El argentino llegó al aeropuerto Le Bourget junto a su familia y fue recibido por miles de fanáticos que encendían bengalas y coreaban su apellido. El astro argentino se asomó por unas de las ventanas del terminal aéreo, llevando una camiseta blanca con la leyenda “Ici c’est Paris” (Aquí es París), lema del club francés.
Lionel Messi waved to the Parisian crowds on Tuesday after the news officially broke that he will be joining Paris Saint-Germain on a two-year deal with an option for a third. Messi landed at Le Bourget airport to finalize the greatest transfer in European soccer history. For those asking, “what did Messi’s shirt say?” his t-shirt read: This is Paris.
Messi waving to fans from Paris @ESPNFC
There's no doubt that footballers create a special connection with each other since there's such a strong bond between two people that understand the game and everything it entails. It's no secret that many professional women’s players are dating teammates or even opponents. The most recent rumored couple that had fans wondering if they're official or not was the relationship status between Sam Kerr and Kristie Mewis.
El efecto de Lionel Messi en la historia del Barcelona es y será imborrable. El club era grande antes de su aparición en La Masia, pero en sus 17 años junto al plantel de honor se convirtió en un coloso. A modo de ejemplo, varios en internet muestran el palmarés de los catalanes antes y después de la era Messi:
Brutal. Pero no es todo.
Estos últimos días han sido bastante complicados para el Barcelona. De partida, Lionel Messi no pudo renovar su contrato debido a los problemas financieros que atraviesa el club y debió dejar la institución luego de 17 temporadas construyendo su leyenda. Y ahora, por si no fuera poco, el gigante de LaLiga se quedará sin otra figura clave durante los próximos dos meses: Sergio Agüero.
BARCELONA - Barcelona striker Sergio Agüero has been ruled out of action for 10 weeks, the club said on Monday, deepening the Catalans' troubles ahead of the new season following Lionel Messi's shock departure.
Agüero, a close friend of Messi and his international teammate with Argentina, joined Barça as a free agent in June after 10 years with Manchester City.