Without waiting long, his statue will be erected at Camp Nou, and countless Barca fans, non-Barça fans, and even non-football fans will come here to pay tribute and worship.
However, when barca clubs used 35 trophies to embellish the farewell ceremony of Messi's departure, it was the most painful moment of Messi's life.
He could not hide his emotions, he did not hear it, he heard it first. The two-minute applause at the scene was used by many media as a background sound for reporting the farewell ceremony, which was very sensational, but it was not appropriate.
This time the goodbye should have only one voice: Messi's low cry.
A teenager, ignorant of the unknown, is told that he must leave his hometown.
Teenagers are about to be forced to leave home.
Messi, 34, is no longer a teenager in age, and on the pitch, he may not have been a teenager since he debuted for Barca's senior team in the fall of 2004. But he was still so innocent, even naïve.
He never really wanted to leave, and decided to leave a year ago because the environment here simply did not allow him to continue to concentrate. He only focuses on football and family, he doesn't want much.
Even his astronomical contracts once became evidence that others were attacking him. However, that contract, which was the club management at the time, promised to keep Messi for a long time, but it was not a proof of his greed.
In the past year, there have been elections, with the change of chairman and management, Messi feels that the darkest period has passed, the times have turned over - he never really wanted to leave, as long as he can barely support, he and his family, of course, are willing to complete their careers here.
Barca signed Messi with a napkin 21 years ago.
He met with the new president, Laporta, and quickly clarified the new contract. His father, as his agent, came to Barcelona in early August and wanted to complete the routine of signing a contract. Then it was then the club told him that Barca could no longer keep him due to the constraints of fair financial competition in La Liga.
At this farewell ceremony, Messi admitted that he was still in the process of "accepting this fact". He still has doubts in his mind, he does not know whether the club has done its best to keep him, and this doubt is similar to whether he doubted a year ago that the club management at that time was doing its best for the benefit of the club.
It's just this chilling pain that he doesn't show much.
Messi had the opening cry, but he did not continue to vent his emotions. He tried to accept reality, even if it was far beyond his comprehension.
Laporta used Messi to help her campaign.
This is an organizationally structured, seemingly the most democratic and fair club, "more than just a club" – a long-standing slogan of Barça's club culture. At the moment, however, Barça is the club with the most chaotic management and the most irresponsible managers.
Under the membership system structure, the voting of members empowers the winners in the election, before Rossell and Bartomeu, and then there is "former Liu Lang" Laporta, who can serve as chairman and management for one term, in order to vote, arbitrarily and at any cost to please members.
When Laporta found that last season the club was in a deficit, not 200 million euros, but more than 480 million euros, everything seemed irreparable.
Therefore, sacrificing Messi is the club's decision to face the tragic reality and not to whitewash the peace - this decision will not become a curse on Barca's future, and the future will give the answer.
And Messi doesn't understand this institutionalized dark and corrupt football environment. For 21 years, he has always been the most innocent football teenager, playing happily in his second hometown where he grew up.
Only people who are extremely simple in nature can play football that is so pure and extreme.
Football that Barca will never see again.
An innocent teenager who "dies" on this day. We say it's the price of growth. Isn't that the price of the ugliness of human nature?
Author: Yan Qiang/Founder of Wanton Football
Source: The Paper