{"id":251487,"date":"2020-08-26T23:44:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T22:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=251487"},"modified":"2020-08-26T23:45:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T22:45:16","slug":"messi-stay-barcelona-fans-chant-at-camp-nou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=251487","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Messi stay&#8217; &#8211; Barcelona fans chant at Camp Nou"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Angry FC Barcelona fans have called for the resignation of club president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, after captain Lionel Messi announced on Tuesday that he wished to leave the Catalan side.<\/p>\n<p>A large crowd of fans outside FC Barcelona\u2019s Camp Nou stadium on Tuesday night were heard chanting \u201cWe love you, Messi stay, Messi stay!\u201d and \u201cBartomeu resign!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An 80-year-old Joana Polo, wearing an FC Barcelona face mask, on Wednesday outside Camp Nou told Reuters: \u201cI am very upset, for me Barca is Messi and Messi is Barca. They are the same, he is the symbol of Barca.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should erect a monument in Camp Nou for him. I do not think Messi\u2019s departure should be allowed to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona President, Josep Bartomeu had assured fans that Messi would stay at the Camp Nou next season, following the 8-2 defeat against Bayern Munich in the Champions League quarter-final.<\/p>\n<p>However, Messi wants Barca to terminate his contract, so he can join a new club.<\/p>\n<p>Another fan at Camp Nou said, \u201cYou can take defeats in sports but I can\u2019t handle Messi leaving,\u201d Oriol, 40 told Reuters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angry FC Barcelona fans have called for the resignation of club president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, after captain Lionel Messi announced on Tuesday that he wished to leave the Catalan side. A large crowd of fans outside FC Barcelona\u2019s Camp Nou stadium on Tuesday night were heard chanting \u201cWe love you, Messi stay, Messi stay!\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,9858,15415],"class_list":["post-251487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-camp-nou","tag-ronald-koeman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/251488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}