Ex-Barcelona chief reveals Lionel Messi anger over his and Neymar's exit originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. parted ways with in 2021 after over two decades at the Catalan club, due to financial and structural obstacles posed by La Liga regulations.

Lionel Messi had bid a tearful goodbye to FC Barcelona, the club whose academy he had attended and had represented at the senior level for 17 years, in the summer of 2021. Club president Joan Laporta,

With a World Cup title secured in 2022, Lionel Messi's trophy collection is now all but complete. Here's what the Argentina icon has won across his career for club and country.

Throughout their legendary careers, neither Lionel Messi nor Cristiano Ronaldo ever managed to amass 20 club goals in just a dozen outings. Ronaldo came close in 2014–15, hitting that landmark figure in 13 Real Madrid games, while Messi never hit 20 goals in fewer than 17 appearances for any of Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain or Inter Miami.