Michael Espinoza Chavez
Mary Beth Beattie
November 15 2022
The Sad
Story of Messi and Fc Barcelona in Soccer.
Fc Barcelona is a club with a significant history in soccer.
They show how soccer can be exciting with fantastic players that everyone
remembers, and the buying and selling of well-known players within the game. Fc
Barcelona demonstrated many of its advances but, in the same way, the problems
that they currently suffer.
Why Fc Barcelona had such significant changes? Years ago,
the team was in perfect shape on and off the field, and they had one of the
best players in the world, but with their bad purchases of players from other
seasons, the team was left without enough money. It started selling players,
among other things, to recover everything lost. Now Fc Barcelona is in a
reconstruction phase to return to being what it was before.
When we talk about Messi at FC Barcelona, the team has made
a significant difference in the game since he started playing. Thanks to him,
the team managed to create a very clean game mode with many ball passes,
something extraordinary that other teams have never seen since the passes that
the team made were surprising. In addition, Messi was a player who supported FC
Barcelona to be able to win many important trophies and titles inside and
outside the Spanish league. Also,
he started to win rewards and trophies by himself like Golden Boots, awards for
being the best player of the match, week, month, year, and Ballon D'ors
considered it one of the most famous and valuable ones since he has seven and
he is the player with more Ballon D'ors in the history of soccer in this moment
(Ghosh). With Messi, the team
had a significant evolution of growth in how they played and how dangerous they
were within the sport. However, as Messi is a good player, his value in the
market goes up every year, and he is more expensive to keep with him.
Time after having played 20 years in the team, Messi had to
change teams since FC Barcelona had financial problems and could not renew his
contract or make changes with them since the price and value of the player were
very high. However, there was a team that could pay and gives the money he was
worth to continue playing, called PSG. After Messi had agreed to enter the new
team, he mentioned that it was somewhat difficult to leave FC Barcelona. Noel King explains in the
article "Argentine Soccer Star Lionel
Messi Signs With Paris Saint-Germain," that Messi created a two-year contract
for 35 million euros per season, about 41 million dollars. His contract
is short, so then he could change teams one day. It was difficult for the
Argentinian to play with the team the first year because it was something
different in his life with new changes, and he needed to get used to playing
differently with them. Besides, when Lionel Messi left FC Barcelona, the money
they earned with Messi jerseys went down since he was famous, and everyone
wanted to have one jersey from him. And the amount of money that the team got
from Messi was extraordinary. Above all when the team had a new jersey and matches at Camp Nou, because
everyone wanted to see Messi playing soccer. He helped and improved the team a
lot for a long time and now the team knows how important he was for the team on
and off the field.
FC Barcelona, one of the most favorite teams, has economic
problems with debts that put them in danger. The team affirmed and decided they
would have to sell a percentage of their audiovisual rights to obtain money and
pay what they owed. "They
have agreed to pay 100 million euros ($103 million) to buy the stake in the
team's unprofitable digital content arm" (Thomas). Now they are looking for a way to get new
sponsorships, and they are trying to continue selling players that the team
does not need, selling their rights of organizations, groups, or companies of
them. Little by little, Fc Barcelona continues to increase its income, having
fewer problems. Even now, they try to buy new players to re-establish the team
they used to have, such as "Polish
striker Robert Lewandowski and Brazilian winger Raphinha" (Thomas). With new
midfielders and defenders. Now, they have solved many of their economic
problems by saying they have "divested 49% in the hub," and they get
a new famous sponsorship called Spotify that fulfills and helps in many of the
things the team needs to be better. Even some clubs think that Fc Barcelona is
doing illegal actions to get money since right now they are buying new players
knowing that a few months ago they said that they did not have money to pay all
the debts they have. Still, FC Barcelona continues trying to be number one like
the last years.
Finally, a team can be different after years; it can stay
better or worse for one year, but it depends on the team's control. However, it
is sad to say that the best player is no longer in the team, knowing that his
help was tremendous, and now Fc Barcelona can not have it anymore after some
years. The most interesting fact was about Messi leaving Fc Barcelona, knowing
it was something nobody thought would happen. This is an excellent example how
people must take care of money not to have problems in the future, but the most
important thing is knowing how to control and fix a problem without hurting
other people for something that a team can do or trying to applicate it to life.
Work
Cited
Ghosh. “Lionel Messi's Final Goal.
(cover story).”TIME
Magazine, 12 February 2019. EBSCOhost.
https://web-p-ebscohost-com.libproxy.gc.maricopa.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=24&sid=6ee0cf1d-0a71-4615-b6c1-11a3b764b7e8%40redis&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=71328500&db=a9h.
Noel King. "Argentine
Soccer Star
Lionel Messi Signs With Paris Saint-Germain." Morning Edition, 11 Aug. 2021, p. NA. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A672158857/OVIC?u=mcc_glendale&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=cbacfa04.
Accessed 7 Nov. 2022.
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