{"id":69027,"date":"2022-07-24T10:11:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T09:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/barcelona-im-indebted-to-messi-laporta"},"modified":"2022-07-24T11:30:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T10:30:11","slug":"barcelona-im-indebted-to-messi-laporta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/barcelona-im-indebted-to-messi-laporta","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona: I\u2019m indebted to Messi \u2013 Laporta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Barcelona president, Joan Laporta has insisted that he is indebted to the club\u2019s legend, Lionel Messi.<\/p>\n<p>Laporta also said that it is his responsibility to ensure Messi has a beautiful ending in his career as a football player.<\/p>\n<p>Messi left his boyhood club, Barcelona last summer to join Paris Saint-Germain after the Catalan club was unable to renew his contract due to LaLiga regulations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think, hope that Leo Messi\u2019s story with Barcelona is not over yet,\u201d Laporta said on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s still open, it\u2019s our responsibility to make sure it has a more beautiful ending than it was\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Bar\u00e7a president, I feel indebted to Messi,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Barcelona president, Joan Laporta has insisted that he is indebted to the club\u2019s legend, Lionel Messi. Laporta also said that it is his responsibility to ensure Messi has a beautiful ending in his career as a football player. Messi left his boyhood club, Barcelona last summer to join Paris Saint-Germain after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":69026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,18,26],"tags":[1570,2140,1864,2809,1629,254],"class_list":["post-69027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-barcelona","tag-laporta","tag-messi","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Barcelona: I\u2019m indebted to Messi \u2013 Laporta - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Barcelona president, Joan Laporta has insisted that he is indebted to the club\u2019s legend, Lionel Messi. 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