Lionel Messi has set his sights on more Champions League glory after being unveiled as a Paris Saint-Germain player on Wednesday as hundreds of fans gathered outside the club's stadium hoping to see their new idol.
Paris Saint-Germain’s Qatari President Nasser Al-Khelaifi poses along side Argentinian football player Lionel Messi as he holds-up his number 30 shirt while standing on the pitch during a press conference at the French football club Paris Saint-Germain’s Parc des Princes stadium in Paris on August 11, 2021.
“I have said many times that my dream is to win another Champions League and I think I am in the ideal place to have that chance and to do it,” Messi told reporters inside a packed auditorium, with the audience including his wife Antonella, their children, and his father and agent, Jorge. “We know how difficult the Champions League is but Paris know that too — they have come very close in recent years but it is a competition in which the best teams take part and the best team doesn’t always win.”PSG are reportedly paying 35 million euros a year to Messi, who will wear the number 30 jersey — fans were already queueing up outside the club’s different shops in the capital on Wednesday morning to buy the shirt with his name and number on the back.
Unlike when Zlatan Ibrahimovic signed for PSG in 2012 there was no glitzy unveiling in front of the Eiffel Tower, but Messi was photographed on the pitch before greeting the supporters who had waited at the stadium entrance, watching his press conference on a big screen.“I’m very proud to present Leo Messi as a PSG player,” said Nasser al-Khelaifi, the president of the Qatar-owned outfit. “It is an amazing and historic day for the club, for the football world.
He is therefore unlikely to make his debut for PSG any time soon, and certainly not this weekend when Mauricio Pochettino’s team play Strasbourg at home in Ligue 1.PSG are now even more obvious favourites to run away with the French title, a trophy they missed out on last season to Lille.
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