
Lionel Messi revealed that he and his family plan on returning to live in Barcelona at some point in the near future.
The Argentine icon first moved to the Catalan capital when he was a teenager, belatedly convincing Barcelona to pay for the growth hormone treatment which his boyhood club, Newell’s Old Boys, couldn’t afford. That relationship which began with a contract hurriedly scrawled on a napkin in a tennis club would last for 21 years, bring 778 appearances, 672 goals and 34 trophies. But it all ended in tears.