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Press comments on Messi's move to Paris: "It won't be the same"

2021-08-11T09:48:56.825Z


After Lionel Messi's spectacular move to Paris, the international media are overwhelmed with superlatives. The Spanish newspapers are more wistful. The press reviews.


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Lionel Messi is greeted with a banner at the stadium in Paris

Photo: STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP

Accompanied by a perfectly staged media show, Paris Saint-Germain has announced the change of soccer superstar Lionel Messi.

The fans in Paris were enthusiastic on Tuesday evening, and the Argentine will be officially presented on Wednesday.

The international press reviews:

FRANCE

»Le Parisien«:

»Parisians!

An extraordinary story begins with the arrival of Lionel Messi in Paris.

(...) On a sporting level, the club will be able to approach its goal with an attack line consisting of Neymar, Mbappé and Messi: to win the Champions League. "

»Liberation«:

»It remains to be seen what the sporting significance of the unbelievable event that led to Messi's arrival in France (...) for the Champions League, behind which Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) has been since the acquisition of the capital city club via the sovereign wealth fund in the year 2011 has passed. "

SPAIN

»Sport«:

Never before have both parties lost so much in a divorce.

Barça is losing its essence.

And Messi is losing his shop window.

Paris is a wonderful city.

And at PSG he will be reunited with his friend Neymar.

But it won't be the same.

He will score hundreds of goals and win the Champions League - but he will do it with a broken heart.

"Mundo Deportivo":

It is an ominous coincidence of fate that Messi stopped shortly before the return of 30,000 culés (fans of FC Barcelona,

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) to Camp Nou, which was closed for 17 months due to the pandemic there is.

His memory will always remain, but the thorn in his side is great: He could not say goodbye to those who adored him.

ITALY

»La Repubblica«:

»Laughing after crying - Messi in Paris is reality.«

»Corriere della Sera«:

»Je suis Messì - The flea conquers Paris, which receives it like a king."

"Gazzetta dello Sport":

"Paris sacrificed itself for a Messi."

"Tuttosport":

"Messi from the tears in Barcelona to the intoxication of Paris."

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Source: spiegel

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