An apology from Matías, Lionel Messi’s brother, after his criticisms of Barcelona that went around the world

She is, perhaps, the first public whore starring the Messi family. There have been rumors, leaks, even that episode which led to a conviction after a weapon was found on a boat owned by Matias Messi, one of Lionel’s two older brothers. This Wednesday, the same member of the world’s best footballer’s inner circle remained at the center of controversy for his harsh criticism of the Barcelona club, where the ‘Pulce’ spent most of his career and jumped to professionalism.

At the end of the day, after the worldwide outcry caused by his statements, Matías Messi himself used his only official social network -Instagram- to apologize for his statements towards the Blaugrana club.

“I want revenge for what I said on social media, I was just with my son and his friends making a joke,” he explained about streaming with his son Tomás, Messi’s 10-year-old nephew.

And the 41-year-old businessman added: “How can I think of a club as big as Barcelona and its history, which has given so much to both my family and Leo. For us, Catalonia is our second home and that “It’s in the public domain. I’m very sorry and I apologize to everyone, especially to the Barcelona fans. Finally, I want to clarify that I only have the social network Instagram.”

What did Matías Messi say?

Matías Messi, Lionel’s older brother along with Rodrigo, has become a trend in the last few hours due to the appearance of a video in which he talks about Barcelona, ​​​​trying to make the club’s fans ungrateful “for not cheering him on” when he had to leave the institution in mid-2021, confronting its president Joan Laporta, whom he also criticizes.

“I have a clipping from (newspaper) Sport that says ‘Messi should return to Barcelona’ and I captioned it ‘Messi will not return to Barcelona and if we do we will do a good cleanup, including taking out Joan Laporta,'” Thus begins the video , which was broadcast in Spain and is making a lot of noise, especially in the city where Lionel Messi was born in football, and where there are still those who hope to see him again in the Blaugrana shirt.

“Barcelona became famous thanks to Messi, Madrid were better known. Being paid like this is not good. Anyone who has had the opportunity to travel to Barcelona enters the Museum and the Museum is Messi,” he says in another section of the explosive material.

The video, as it became known, was part of a Twitch made by one of the family members, and there Matías spoke very freely, perhaps without measuring the rebound that his words would have.

“People didn’t support him, people had to go out and march. Let Laporta go and Messi stay. The Catalans are traitors,” says Lionel’s brother, recalling those hot days that marked the end of Leo in Barcelona, ​​​​who claimed financial problems to meet his contract.

“My mother once told Lionel that they will pay you like Ronaldinho. Ronaldinho too, a volley in the ass…”, Matías recalled about the end of the short video broadcast by various Spanish media such as Mundo Deportivo, Marchio and Sport.

From Leo Messi’s Communication Department they explained to Clarín: “It is exclusively the individual and personal opinion of Matías Messi, which obviously does not coincide or is in line with what Leo thinks, who every time he has had the opportunity has expressed so much even publicly in private, their gratitude and utmost respect for the club, as well as for the members and supporters of FC Barcelona Matías’ opinion must not be shared nor must it be the same as that of other relatives, friends or even other people close to Leo, it’s only his.”