PARIS. Argentine footballer Lionel Messi has signed a two-year contract with the French club Paris St. Germain. The club officially informed about it on Tuesday evening.
The 32-year-old Argentine striker left the Spanish big club FC Barcelona after 21 years.
On Tuesday, he traveled to the French capital, where he underwent a medical test and signed a 2-year contract with an option for another year. According to media reports, he has to earn 35 million euros a year.
Messi: I’m excited about a new chapter
In his new job, he will wear the number 30 jersey, with which he began his professional career in Catalonia from 2004 to 2006.
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“I am excited to start a new chapter in my career in St. Germain, Paris,” AFP was quoted as saying in an official communiqué from the club’s AFP website.
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For Barcelona, Messi scored 672 goals in 778 matches and won a record 34 trophies with the club. He won La Liga ten times, enjoyed a triumph in the Royal Cup and the Spanish Super Cup seven times.
On the international scene, he has won the Champions League four times, the FIFA World Cup three times and the European Super Cup.
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Together again, Neymar wrote
The PSG management will officially present Messi as a new acquisition at a press conference on Wednesday morning.
Already on Tuesday, the world media reported that the six-time winner of the Golden Ball flew to Paris accompanied by his wife and three children.
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The agreement with PSG was also confirmed by his father in an interview with the Spanish media. Messi’s arrival was also announced by his former teammate from Barcelona, Neymar.
“Together again,” wrote a Brazilian who came from Catalonia to PSG in 2017 as the most expensive footballer on the planet. The Qatari owners then paid 222 million euros for it.
Messi was greeted by hundreds of fans with enthusiastic chanting right after his afternoon arrival in the French capital. He nodded back to them dressed in a Paris T-shirt.
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