Lionel Messi gives Dh1.8m to charity Unicef on live TV

In 2007, he established Fundacion Leo Messi, a charity supporting access to education and health care for vulnerable children and was appointed GoodWill Ambassador in 2010 to highlight the challenges faced by vulnerable children.

Jose Mourinho has signed a new contract to stay at Chelsea until 2019 despite his belief that English football must accept for the foreseeable future that it can not attract the absolute elite of world football from Barcelona, Real Madrid or Bayern Munich. For sure. Can we, England, bring Thomas Müller from Bayern?

“Would anyone like Messi? Yes”.

Manchester United’s two-time Player of the Year David De Gea has been dropped by Louis van Gaal amid Real’s interest, and Mourinho knows the Premier League can not compete despite the money on offer in England. When you see a player leave one of these great clubs, it’s because they want to leave.

“They are big clubs with history, economically strong and stable and earn incredible income”. The dimunitive forward also hinted a late career move into the engine-room of the team, the midfield, was certainly in his frame of thoughts.

Messi couldn’t make the event as he is preparing with his Barcelona teammates who are getting ready to take on fellow Spanish club Sevilla in the European Super Cup clash tomorrow. The Silverware followed. They have won twenty trophies between them in the last three seasons alone.

Messi was linked with a move to Chelsea during the winter transfer window, while Muller has been courted by Old Trafford boss Van Gaal having coached the forward while at Bayern. “I will always wish him luck”, Messi said.

“We can either bring in talented young players before they go to one of these three great clubs or exploit situations in which there is frustration [on the player’s part] with a lack of playing time”.