PSG fans race to buy Messi shirts

11-Aug-2021 16:43:14 | Yahoo Sports

Messi joined star-packed Paris St Germain on Tuesday (August 10) after leaving Barcelona, the club where he had begun and expected to end his career.Delighted fans raced to get their hands on the 165 euro (194 dollars), as stock flew off the shelves in PSG's flagship store in central Paris. "It's amazing to see Messi today, I had to come personally and buy the jersey of the greatest player in football history, that is why I'm here today," said PSG fan Jonathan Bouyer Msied, who had queued for two hours to get hold of the number 30 jersey.Getting hold of a shirt made Messi's arrival real said 25 year-old PSG fan Wallys Nkamen Nana: "It's real now. We have to buy the jersey for it to be concrete, to know it's true, that it's not just all in our head."Other fans expressed their disappointment that the player had left Barcelona FC, where he had been for 21 years."I'm a big Barcelona fan, a Messi fan, of course I'm going to follow him anywhere he goes. A bit sad he left Barcelona still, still a big fan, but I'll always support him, and of course I had to come here to get a shirt," said Adiel Ramirez, a fan from the U.S.