
Not for the first time in his career, Lionel Messi has found himself of the epicenter of political upheaval at Barcelona.
The club’s greatest player of all time is being used for points scoring in the upcoming presidential elections, which have not yet been officially set but are set to be towards the end of the 2025–26 campaign. The challenging Víctor Font has taken to deriding the current incumbent Joan Laporta for his supposed exploitation of Messi.