• Leo Messi was presented to the press and supporters on Wednesday at the Parc des Princes.

  • The player has signed up for two seasons plus an optional one with Paris.

  • His presentation, like this extraordinary transfer, exceeded anything that PSG had known so far.

The Mona Lisa had better watch out, there is a new sheriff in town. It was therefore not a mirage of the mind or a stroke of bluff cleverly orchestrated by the writers of Barça: Leo Messi is indeed a player of Paris Saint-Germain. Realize, A PARIS SAINT-GERMAIN PLAYER !!!! Until Wednesday, the day of its official presentation to the media around the world, we still refused to believe it. And it was not this stealthy appearance at Le Bourget airport and this Queen Elizabeth-style salute to the crowd from the Buckingham balcony that was going to undermine our theory of collective hallucination. One fake, one more, that's all.

What about the video published on the PSG Twitter account presenting Messi on the lawn of the Park in the Parisian jersey?

Synthesis images at FIFA 21, let's see.

And yet… When the Pulga arrived in the auditorium of the Parc des Princes, dressed to the nines and with just enough delay to push the desire for a packed room to its height, doubt n ' was no longer allowed.

Let it be said, from the top of his six Golden Balls and his four Champions League, Messi is Paris.

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- Paris Saint-Germain (@PSG_inside) August 11, 2021

Happy who like Nasser 

There was only to see the illuminated face of Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, on the verge of slamming a limbo while climbing on the platform, to take the measure of what PSG has just achieved. Just ten years after having taken the destinies of the club in the capital in hand, NAK and Prince Al-Thani have achieved their masterpiece, their masterpiece. “I am very happy and proud to present Leo Messi as a PSG player. It is an incredible and historic day for the club and the football world. It's a fantastic moment, everyone knows Leo, he's the only player who has won 6 Golden Balls. Leo makes football magical, ”said the boss nicely at the opening before saluting the work of Leonardo (Not Da Vinci, the other), the sports director in charge of behind-the-scenes negotiations with the Messi clan.

“I'm very proud of you Leo (nardo).

It's very sincere, look, I don't read my notes, he laughs, pointing to the leaves spread out in front of him.

You have done a fantastic job for the club and its supporters.

“Often abused behind the scenes in recent months, the Brazilian must have appreciated.

Then came the moment for the king's speech.

First observation: crocodile tears quickly gave way to a radiant smile that was obviously not (too) forced.

“Everyone knows how I left Barcelona, ​​it was really very hard because I spent many years there but, as soon as I arrived here, can say that I feel very happy.

I am excited to start this new stage in my career.

"

He did not hesitate to salute "the speed" with which PSG took the file in hand, after "the publication of the Barça press release" recording the divorce between the two parties.

Unlike Blaugrana supporters, the wounds were quickly healed, proof that in football more than elsewhere, things are going very quickly in one direction or the other.

Da Fonseca, first ultra

And the reception that Parisian fans have reserved for him since Sunday at Le Bourget did not fail to make the Argentinian maestro react: “It was madness!

If there was anything missing for me to be definitely happy, it was this crazy welcome from the supporters.

I am very grateful to them.

As soon as the Barça press release came out, people were already in the streets, as if I had arrived when nothing had been done yet!

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MDR Omar Da Fonseca who goes crazy and launches a song "Messi, Messi, Messi" in the middle of a press conference.

We love you Omar 😂😍 pic.twitter.com/LzrsL2WGuX

- Aymeric Le Gall (@AymericLeGall) August 11, 2021

He will then have to wet his neck on Saturday, because his official presentation before PSG-Strasbourg, in a Parc des Princes very happy to find his 45,000 tenants after a year and a half of Covid-deprivation, risks tickling his eardrums .

He also had a little taste of it after the 40 minutes of the press conference.

The first to unpin (to everyone's surprise)?

The former Parisian and current beIN Sport consultant Omar Da Fonseca, madly in love with the genius of Rosario, who barely waited for the end of the conf 'to come out of his den and yell “MESSI, MESSI, MESSI!

»In the middle of the auditorium, provoking the hilarity of the room (as much as our unease).

Presentation at the Park on Saturday 

A few meters away, in front of the Parc des Princes, several hundred supporters, including a few well-known figures from the Ultras Paris Collective, were also waiting for their new toy, drums, flags and smoke in hand. This is how the Pulga got to know its new locos. In the crowd, it's hysteria. It sings to blow the vocal cords, the torches illuminate the square in front of the Park while firecrackers explode everywhere, even pushing the police to throw a few tear gas - French tradition requires - to calm the most excited. Time lost, of course.

“Wallah I saw Messi for real!

I saw him in full, I swear to you, he was 50m from me, he did that to me, ”a young boy ignites, miming a thumbs up to his friend, before taking the direction of the metro and resume a (more or less) normal activity.

It was then 12:10 and Messi had just returned to the bowels of the Parc des Princes to continue his media marathon.

Its Parc des Princes, now.

No but in fact even said like that, we still do not realize.

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