Luis Enrique on Messi
15 Sports Monday, September 7, 2020 Hometown left deflated but still hopeful after Messi snub ‘Your dream, our hope’; No fairytale homecoming ROSARIO: Rosario had dared to dream but was giants Barcelona offered to pay for his growth hor- left disappointed after the Argentine city’s most cel- mone treatment, among other benefits. At the age of ebrated son Lionel Messi announced he was staying 10, he had been diagnosed with growth hormone at Barcelona. When Messi told the Spanish giants deficiency. “Every time there is talk of his contract last week he wanted to quit the club, some back in renewal, we fans dream, even though we know it’s his home town and at Newell’s Old Boys, the club very difficult because his reality is in Europe now,” where he played junior football, allowed themselves said Lisandro Leoni, a journalist and “Leper,” as to imagine the 33-year-old superstar returning Newell’s fans are known. “But we also know that home to play for his boyhood team. he’s a fan of this club, so we never lose hope that, at Despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, a some time and even if for only one season, he’ll week ago hundreds of Newell’s fans organized a wear our jersey.” joyous and colorful vehicle procession through the town under the banner: “Your dream, our hope.” But ‘Doors always open’ after 10 days of anxious waiting, there was to be no “We’ve always got that hope that Leo will wear fairytale homecoming. Despite Friday’s deflation, the Newell’s jersey, but we have a lot of respect for many Newell’s fans still believe the prodigal son will his decision,” said Roberto Mensi, part of the group one day return home.
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