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How Lionel Messi's Barcelona Exit Set Up A Poetic World Cup Final With Lamine Yamal

Twenty-six years ago, when a 13-year-old Lionel Messi left his beloved Rosario and arrived in Barcelona for his trial to join La Masia academy, with the hopes of sealing a move that could change his life, no one could predict how that moment would not only eternally change Messi’s life or the footballing landscape as a whole, but it would also create a butterfly effect that would transform the entire fate of a club, a nation and the way Messi and Barcelona became the greatest partnership in modern football history. But his departure in 2021 from the club, which sent shock waves around the worl...