Argentine captain Lionel Messi, the Barcelona soccer team, believes that the popular game - which was affected by the new Corona virus - will not return to the way it was before its spread.

The comments of the best player in the world came six times, in an interview with the Spanish newspaper "El Pais", and published excerpts, including the Catalan club on its website on Sunday.

Game competitions in Spain, as in the vast majority of countries in the world, stopped last March with the outbreak of "Covid-19". After many competitions were suspended, some tournaments began to resume the season, with Spain starting from June 11.

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However, most of the tournaments - which are back in competitions free of fans and their usual clamor - require players and teams to adopt a strict health protocol that radically changes the usual aspects of the game, especially in terms of celebration of goals or direct contact.

Messi reversed this by telling the Spanish newspaper, "Football, as life in general, will never be the same again".

"Returning to exercises, competitions, what we used to do normally, we will have to start with it again, but gradually."

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"It will be a strange situation for us, and for everyone who will have to change the usual dynamics of his work."

In Spain, players returned to individual club positions on May 4 and, after about two weeks, were allowed to do group exercises in small groups. The League announced yesterday that the clubs will be able to resume team exercises from the first Monday in June.

But this step will also be accompanied by health protection measures, in preparation for the return of the "La Liga" competitions to complete the remaining 11 stages of the 2019-2020 season.

Players, like most people in most of the world, have been forced to spend weeks in isolation to combat the epidemic. For footballers, this came during a period of the season that is usually crowded with matches and competition, with competitions reaching advanced and decisive stages on the title track.

Clubs were forced to devise different methods during the isolation period in order to maintain the minimum level of fitness for players, so they prepared, for example, individual training programs that each of them carried out at his home, or organized group training sessions via video calling.

On the financial front, the clubs suffered in light of the stoppage of match revenues and television broadcasting, forcing many of them, including Barcelona, ​​to agree with the players to reduce their salaries during this period.

Messi said that "many people spent a bad period because this situation affected them in one way or another, as happened to all who lost some family members or friends and were not even able to bid them farewell."

"There is no worse feeling than the loss of the people for whom I show the greatest feelings of love. This creates tremendous frustration in my opinion."

In response to a question: How will the 32-year-old attacker remember this epidemic?