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This same week his discomfort with the pro-independence postulates has been pointed out as one of the reasons for the departure of Leo Messi from Barça . Just at a time when the waters are not as troubled as they have become in the last three years in relation to these issues, but we must not forget that it was approximately then when he signed his last renewal with the Barcelona entity. It was at the end of November 2017, after the incidents of October 1 and in a certainly tense climate. There, the clause that allowed him to leave Camp Nou unilaterally was introduced, despite extending his commitment until June 30, 2022.

Although he came to Barcelona in 2000 to join the lower categories of the Barça club, he has always resisted speaking in Catalan . As he confessed in an interview with RAC1 last year, he always answers in Spanish, even when they speak to him in Catalan. Of course, with a marked Argentine accent. "I never spoke it fluently, it never happened, but I know how to sing 'Joan Petit quan balla', the children have learned it and they handle it perfectly," he slipped. This was demonstrated with a video posted on his social networks three years ago, with the middle of his offspring, Mateo, as the protagonist. At most, he has dropped some "Visca el Barça i visca Catalunya" in one of the official team presentations. But nothing else. In their social networks, both he and his wife, Antonella, choose to communicate mainly in Spanish and English. Or even without words.

"I've been here longer than in Argentina, my children are Catalan and Mateo was born on September 11, more Catalan impossible," even joked the Argentine. Language difficulties, however, are not something new in his family. Initially, Messi came to Barcelona with his parents and his brothers. But, in the end, his mother, Celia, had to cross the Atlantic again and leave him only accompanied by his father, Jorge. The reason? His sister's discomfort at school. "They spoke to her in Catalan, she cried and she didn't like it. So my old woman decided to go back to Rosario with her and my brothers, Matías and Rodrigo, so that she could continue school there," explained the crack in an interview with the newspaper La Capital in 2008 .

However, the peak of the process led him to also introduce another escape clause in his contract with Barça. One that, in case the club could not play a great European league, once the independence of Catalonia was consummated, it would allow it to leave. This was confirmed by EL MUNDO in 2018. That is, it was not willing to compete in a league made up exclusively of Catalan teams and would only agree to continue if the team continued to play the Spanish competition, something clearly unfeasible at present and that only Andorra considers as an exception. , the French, the English or the German.

From the pro-independence point of view, in addition, the inaction with which Messi attended the proclamations of freedom for the prisoners of the procés that took place at the end of the ceremony of delivery of the Creu de Sant Jordi, in May, was not very well received. last year, from the hands of the President of the Generalitat, Quim Torra. The player simply remained completely impassive. He preferred not to speak, despite the fact that, again at RAC1, he wanted to make it very clear afterwards that he highly values ​​this award. "It was an impressive distinction, I was fortunate to win many important individual awards but this was different from everything, it closed a circle of my life," he said.

On the other hand, there are things that invite us to think that Messi's attitude towards independence is, above all, a matter of equidistance. Or, directly, of indifference. For example, in the hotel where he celebrated his wedding, the senyera waved, but there was no sign of the Spanish flag. A few days after the celebration, it would transcend that everything was an initiative of the hotel to entertain the representatives of CIRSA, a Catalan company that owns 50% of the business, who came to make sure that everything ran smoothly and that it was something that was done habitually.

Nor can it be ignored that Pep Guardiola, with whom he would have spoken in recent days possibly with the intention of probing his arrival at Manchester City, is not exactly someone who has decided to stay out of the process. Rather the complete opposite. The former Barça coach has always stood out for his support of the independence cause, either for his participation in various events, his public statements or the gesture of wearing a yellow bow on his lapel, even if that cost him a financial sanction. And Messi, far from preferring to keep him out of his career, seems to be burning with the desire to meet him again to recall the successes they experienced together at Barça.

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