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If the superstar Lionel Messi has signed for Paris Saint-Germain, amateur football also has its own: he day in Regional 1 at Rodeo FC!
If by any chance Paris Saint-Germain faced Rodéo FC – a Regional club close to Toulouse – there could be a good confrontation between two Lionel Messi. Because if the Argentine prodigy signed with the club of the Capital, which has not gone unnoticed for three days, he has had a namesake in amateur football for more than ten years!
Born March 30, 1995 in Yaoundé (Cameroon), Lionel Messi Nyamsi played as a youth at JS Cugnaux and Toulouse Fontaine before signing at Angers SCO (2012) where his arrival had intrigued. “Following the detection organized at the end of February […], the Angers SCO recruitment unit and its coaches have selected twelve names of boys likely to come and strengthen their workforce for next season ” had written the club at the time.
Ten clubs in ten years!
If he evolved with the reserve group in CFA2, Lionel Messi only stayed one season in Maine-et-Loire. He then went to US Colomiers (2013) where he also played five matches in the National. “He was a good guy and it is true that in the various trips that we made it appealed to people that a player is called Lionel Messi in Colomiers” defends defender Romain Poletti, today in Bastelicaccia (R1 Corsica).
After US Colomiers, Lionel Messi Nyamsi has scoured the clubs of the South-West between Auch Football, AS Muret, Av. Fonsorbais, AS Portet Carrefour, US Ramonville, Isle-en-Dodon and finally this season Rodéo FC (R1 Occitanie) . A sawtooth course for the defensive midfielder who turned 26 in March… the opposite of his namesake who had not left FC Barcelona since the age of 13. But amateur football also has its Lionel Messi!
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