A parade of cars made its way from Newell’s Marcelo Bielsa stadium to the Rosario city centre with fans tooting horns, hanging from the windows waving flags, and singing songs. “Olele, Olala, Messi is Newell’s, he’s not going to City,” chanted fans, brought together by social media and ignoring social distancing. Club officials are equally hopeful of seeing Messi return but they are conscious it is most likely a question not of now but of when. “We don’t have to make any call,” Juan José Concina, Newell’s secretary general told a local radio station in Rosario this week. “It’s not just about Newell’s, his arrival here is good not just for our institution but for Argentine football as a whole.

Source: Egypt Today August 27, 2020 23:48 UTC