Lionel Messi, the Argentine footballer, returned to training today, Saturday, but he trained individually at the Camp Nou stadium and did not participate in the team's team training.
Messi was absent from the team's training at the Barcelona Training Center, where the club announced that he had a slight muscle problem in the right leg.
Messi returned today, Saturday, but only trained with Nelson Simedo, who has a minor knee problem.
Barcelona hopes that Messi will become fit in time to participate in the team's match against Real Mallorca next Saturday in the twenty-eighth stage of the Spanish league, when the competition resumes after a pause due to the crisis of the epidemic of the new Corona virus (Covid-19) .
And 11 stages before the end of the league, Barcelona occupy the lead, two points ahead of rivals Real Madrid second-placed.
On the other hand, Spanish media reported today, Saturday, that next Wednesday will witness the end of the period during which a clause in the Messi contract that allows him to leave Barcelona in the free transfer deal this summer can be activated.
Reports indicated that Messi must inform the club no later than the tenth of June, if he wants to activate the item, and in the event of not reporting, this will mean his continuation with the Catalan team until the last year of his current contract, which ends in 2021.