It is, perhaps, the first public whore starring the Messi family
.
There have been rumors, leaks, even that episode that led to a conviction after the discovery of a weapon on a boat owned by
Matías Messi
, one of Lionel's two older brothers.
This Wednesday, the member of the inner circle of the best soccer player in the world was left in the middle of the controversy due to his harsh criticism of the Barcelona club, where the "Flea" did a large part of his career and jumped to professionalism.
At the end of the day, after the worldwide uproar caused by his statements, Matías Messi himself used his only official social network -Instagram- to apologize for his statements against the Blaugrana club.
"I want to vindicate myself for what I said on social networks, I was only with my son and his friends making a joke," he explained about the stream with his son Tomás, Messi's 10-year-old nephew.
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And the 41-year-old businessman added: "How am I going to think that of a club as big as Barcelona and its history, which has given both my family and Leo a lot. For us, Catalonia is our second home and that is public knowledge. I'm very sorry and I apologize to everyone, especially Barcelona fans. Finally, I want to clarify that I only have the Instagram social network".
What had Matías Messi said?
Matías Messi, Lionel's older brother along with Rodrigo, became a trend in recent hours due to the appearance of a video in which he talks about Barcelona, trying to make the club's fans ungrateful "for not having supported him" when he had to leave the institution in mid-2021, confronted with its president Joan Laporta, whom he also criticizes.
"I have a clipping from the (newspaper) Sport that says 'Messi should return to Barcelona' and I subtitled below 'Messi is not going to return to Barcelona and if we do we are going to do a good cleaning, including throwing out Joan Laporta,'" Thus begins the video, which was broadcast in Spain and is making a lot of noise, especially in the city where Lionel Messi was born in football, and where some still hope to see him again in the Blaugrana shirt.
"Barcelona became known because of Messi, Madrid was better known. Being paid like that is not good. Anyone who had the opportunity to travel to Barcelona enters the Museum and the museum is Messi," he says in another section of the explosive material.
The video, as it became known, was part of a Twitch carried out by one of the family members, and there Matías spoke very freely, perhaps without measuring the rebound that his words would have.
"People didn't support him, people should have gone out to march. Let Laporta leave and Messi stay. The Catalans are traitors," says Lionel's brother, recalling those hot days that marked the end of Leo in Barcelona, who claimed financial problems to deal with his contract.
"My mom told Lionel once, they're going to pay you like Ronaldinho. Ronaldinho too, a volley in the ass...", Matías recalled about the end of the short video that was broadcast in different Spanish media such as Mundo Deportivo , Brand and Sport.
From Leo Messi's Communication department they explained to Clarín: "It is exclusively the individual and personal opinion of Matías Messi, who obviously does not coincide or is in line with what Leo thinks, who whenever he had the opportunity expressed so much in publicly as well as privately, their gratitude and utmost respect for the club as well as for the members and supporters of FC Barcelona.
Matías's opinion does not have to be shared nor does it have to be the same as that of other relatives, friends or even other people close to Leo, it is solely his”.
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