""Last night, I returned to a place that I miss with all my heart," he wrote alongside the images on Monday. "It's a place where I was immensely happy, where you made me feel like the happiest person in the world a thousand times over. "I hope that one day I can return, and not just to say goodbye as a player, as I never got to do...""
""It would be a great way to open the stadium [when it's completely finished], with 105,000 packed in and paying tribute to Leo," Laporta reiterated to reporters after an open training session in front of 23,000 fans at Camp Nou last week. "Always, of course, depending on what [the Messi camp] wants. There are also presidential elections before then, but in the case I am still president, I would love that.""
Lionel Messi visited the revamped Spotify Camp Nou and posted photographs on social media after helping Inter Miami advance in the MLS playoffs. Messi described the stadium as a place he misses with all his heart and as somewhere that made him immensely happy on many occasions. Messi expressed hope to return and receive a proper goodbye as a player, a farewell he did not get after leaving for Paris Saint-Germain in 2021 amid Barcelona's financial problems and Covid restrictions. Club president Joan Laporta proposed a tribute match to inaugurate the finished stadium, while work on Camp Nou continues.
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