The images are furtive, but the legend Lionel Messi, new recruit of Paris Saint-Germain, participated well Thursday August 12 in his first training session with the team of the capital.

The 34-year-old Argentinian was filmed doing physical exercises, while the rest of the group were playing ball games.

Messi signed a two-season contract with PSG on Tuesday, and was presented to the press on Wednesday at the Parc des Princes, after leaving Barcelona, ​​where he was unable to sign a new lease.

🇦🇷 Lionel Messi who lives his first training at Camp des Loges.



🤔 Or rather, football saw Messi's first training at PSG…



😅 We do not even know how to phrase it because it is so unimaginable.

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- Media Parisien (@MediaParisien) August 12, 2021

The six-fold Ballon d'Or is only now starting its recovery phase, and should take some time before appearing in competition with PSG. 

"I was stopped for more than a month (after the Copa America won with Argentina) [...] I will have to do some physical preparation. I hope it will be as soon as possible, because I want to play. I cannot give a date. When the staff will have decided that I can play, it will be with a lot of desire [...] I want all of this to happen quickly ", had Messi said on Wednesday about his recovery protocol.

"Welcome to Paris, Léo"

At Camp des Loges, the training center of PSG, Leo Messi was able to meet Kylian Mbappé who wished him Thursday "welcome" on his social networks, two days after the signing of the Argentinian at Paris SG.

"Welcome to Paris, Léo" posted the French world champion on Instagram and Twitter, accompanying this sentence with photos of the two men.

This publication comes as uncertainties remain around the future in Paris of Mbappé, whose contract expires in a year.

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With AFP

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