{"id":534562,"date":"2026-04-16T18:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534562\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T18:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:34:13","slug":"lionel-messi-becomes-new-owner-of-catalan-club-cornella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/534562\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi becomes new owner of Catalan club Cornella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Messi left Argentina for Spain when he was 13 and made his first-team debut for Barcelona aged 17 in October 2004.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He went on to score a club record 672 goals in 778 games before he left for Paris St-Germain in 2021, and he then moved to Inter Miami in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Messi&#8217;s former Real Madrid rival Cristiano Ronaldo, who plays for Saudi Pro League side Al-Nassr, bought a 25% stake in Spanish side Almeria in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cornella&#8217;s stadium has a capacity of 1,500 capacity, while Arsenal keeper David Raya and ex-Barcelona and Inter Miami defender Jordi Alba both came through the club&#8217;s ranks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Leo Messi&#8217;s arrival marks the beginning of a new chapter in the club&#8217;s history, aimed at driving both sporting and institutional growth, strengthening its foundations, and continuing to invest in talent,&#8221; said Cornella.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The project is guided by a long-term vision and a strategic plan that combines ambition, sustainability, and a strong connection to its local roots.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Messi left Argentina for Spain when he was 13 and made his first-team debut for Barcelona aged 17&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-534562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}