Two days before his appearance in the League without his captain and historical scorer Lionel Messi, everyone is waiting for the impact of the departure of the Argentine star on the Barcelona team, and we review the expected impact through the opinions of some coaches and football experts.
In front of about 30 thousand fans, Barcelona will face its guest Real Sociedad next Sunday in the first round in the first match the Catalan club plays without the presence of its legend Messi in the team's list in the League in 17 years.
Barcelona announced last Thursday the departure of Messi due to the regulations of the Spanish Football League (La Liga) and the economic crisis that the club is going through.
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Wissam Shamil, a lecturer at the Asian Football Confederation and a coach at Al-Sadd Club of Qatar, believes that Lionel Messi is the center around which Barcelona's style of play revolves. Industry opportunities and registration.
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Shamil says to Al Jazeera Net that losing a player with Messi's technical and moral standing is a loss for any team, but at the same time Messi's absence can be of great benefit as Barcelona will return to team play that depends on the complete system and collective performance more than it depends on one player.
Shamil adds that Messi has been the cornerstone of the Barcelona team in recent years, but this era had to end, and the global health conditions left by the Corona epidemic and resulting in major economic crises for clubs, especially Barcelona, helped to make this end earlier than expected.
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Tribulation and Grant
Dr. Jamal Ismail, professor of football at the Faculty of Physical Education and a lecturer at the International Football Association "FIFA" (FIFA), underestimates the negative impact that Messi's departure will have, and assures Al Jazeera Net that it will be very slight, especially since Barcelona includes many good young players, and that His departure will make the players go out of their way to prove their existence.
In the Champions League 👇
Ronaldo concluded his goals with Real Madrid with a goal against Juventus 🇮🇹 and then ⬅️ moved to him
Messi concluded his goals with Barcelona with a goal against Paris Saint-Germain 🇫🇷 Will the scene be repeated?
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Ismail says that Messi's departure will enable Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman to restore the team play that the team is famous for and "Tiki Taka" through the talents that it includes among its ranks, stressing that the departure of the legend is already an ordeal, but it may turn into a grant for the team if it is better used.
Ismail adds that the departure of Suarez and then Messi is a major crisis for any team, but the presence of a high-end artistic identity and a strong footballing heritage with Barcelona will make him overcome that and restore his luster quickly.
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— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) August 10, 2021
Barcelona collapse
In a contrary opinion, former Syrian national team player Hazem Harba tells Al Jazeera Net that Messi's absence will certainly have a very negative impact on Barcelona, not only because he is the best player in the world, but because he is the best player who can make the difference for his team during the matches, in addition to Barcelona's plans All of them revolved around Messi's presence in the attacking third and his touches, whether to create goals with his decisive passes and create opportunities for his teammates or by scoring great goals.
Harba adds that there is a great additional advantage for Messi that many overlook, which is that he occupies the competing teams and makes some of his competitors focus on him to reduce his danger, which gives the opportunity for his teammates to penetrate the defensive depth of the competitors and score goals.
Harba expects Barcelona to collapse after Messi's departure and turn into a normal team, like the rest of the League, and that it will suffer a lot to return to the fore again.
The former Egyptian national team star, Mohamed Odeh, agrees with Al-Jazeera Net, with Harba's opinion, and tells Al-Jazeera Net that Messi's departure is a huge loss for Barcelona because he is one of the few players in the world who enjoys a variety of solutions, scoring methods and goal-making in matches, as he is characterized by amazing skill in penetrating from depth and sides, He is also good at accurate and strong shooting from all sides, positions and fixed balls, in addition to his magical touches that gift his teammates a lot of goals during matches.
The return of the former coach to the Egyptian Arab Contractors team adds that the losses of Messi’s departure will go beyond Barcelona to affect the entire Spanish League, which will result in economic and public losses, as many fans will abandon the follow-up to the Spanish League after his departure, as did some Real Madrid fans - and he is among them. - When Cristiano Ronaldo left the Royal in the summer of 2018.
We made history together.
Thank you legend.🙏
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A leader on and off the field
Algerian coach Tariq Makour believes that the void left by Messi's departure in Barcelona will be very large and immediate, as it is difficult to find a player who scores over 10 seasons or more more than 50 goals per season and makes about 20 goals, and there is no one in the world who did this Except Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
Makor, who leads the technical management of the Sunni teams in the Qatari club Al-Shamal, told Al-Jazeera Net that Messi was not just an ordinary player, but was a leader on and off the field, and had a huge impact on Barcelona through the matches he missed in the past seasons for various reasons, including injury, and received Barcelona mostly defeat or draw at least and did not appear as required.
Hisham Zahid, the former Qatari national team player and coach of the youth team at Al-Sadd Club, confirms that Messi's absence will have a significant negative impact on the Barcelona team as a distinguished playmaker and top scorer who won for several years the title of top scorer in the Spanish Football League.
Zahid tells Al Jazeera Net that with Messi's departure, all Barcelona's plans were scattered technically, publicly and economically, because he is not an ordinary player but a legend at the club and the world level.