Messi’s return ‘unrealistic’, Barca president Laporta says
The club is planning a special tribute match to honor Messi’s legacy once the stadium renovation is complete BARCELONA: Barcelona all-time great Lionel Messi’s return to the Catalan giants is “unrealistic”, club president Joan Laporta said on Wednesday. The 38-year-old Argentine superstar made a surprise appearance at Barca’s Camp Nou on Sunday night and said he hoped “one day I will be able to come back and not just to say goodbye as a player, as I never got to do”. Eight-time Ballon d’Or winner Messi, Barca’s goalscorer and show-stopper, left for Paris Saint-Germain in 2021 after two decades there



