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The England international despite having a whopping 34 points this year, Argentina's commitment

Wayne Rooney, Manchester United's England striker and star of a great season in which he scored 34 goals, said Lionel Messi to Barca as "the best player in the world."

"It's a pleasure to be among the best, but I think Lionel Messi is the best player in the world," said the burly tip, which has just been injured for two or three weeks.

"What makes the ball is incredible. And mark up many goals. This year has been fantastic," Rooney acknowledged in the official magazine of Manchester United.

The current champions, Manchester United, Barcelona and possibly the two best teams of the moment, the dispute on Wednesday in the Rome Olympic final of the Champions League football (18h45 GMT), the world's most prestigious club tournament.

Both reach the decisive match of the Italian capital having won in mid-May the title in their respective national leagues, although Barcelona also won the Copa del Rey and look for a historic 'Treble'.
In recent months, the outcome of the game and the men who directed Josep Guardiola has given wings to the fans of the team, already dreaming of the third European crown, after those obtained in 1992 in London and in Paris in 2006.

"On Wednesday, do not fail," said Catalan coach on their ward on Saturday, when the club celebrated with their fans at the Camp Nou double the national league in a match where the team fell 1-0 to Osasuna in the than the coach reserved for the holders to several European final.

Despite the apparent euphoria, the challenge is complicated, with a Manchester United will try to be the first to validate the European title since 1990, when Milan won 1-0 at Benfica in Vienna, after the final goleado 1989 to Steaua Bucharest (4-0).




The team from Old Trafford is also supported by its effectiveness in the finals of the maximum continental event, where he has coveted final three (1968, 1999, 2008) and has completed all of them lifting the championship trophy.

The veteran technician United, Alex Ferguson has warned in recent weeks, the potential of Barcelona. Online gambling house "Be aware that the threat comes not only from England. The key comes from Barcelona," the coach predicted the end of Scots March, when he had just played on the final round.

His words were visionary and equipment azulgrana, who sealed his skip to the end with a tie in the dying ground of Chelsea, threatens to deprive one of the Premier League title, after the English championship placed three of its representatives in the semifinals.

The game also will result in Rome expected duel between the two players will compete for the honorary title of 'best player in the world': the Argentine Lionel Messi and Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo.

The international Albiceleste as it reaches the final top scorer of the competition, with eight targets and is facing a golden opportunity to shine in a grand final and claim his candidacy for the Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player Award, which won the last edition in Portuguese rival.

The low marked the preparations for the Barcelona, which has altered their usual eleven. While Manchester United may not have sanctioned the Darren Fletcher and Rio Ferdinand is a doubt due to injury, Guardiola will be thwarted in defense of the suspended Dani Alves and Eric Abidal, Rafael Marquez and the injured.

In the attack, Thierry Henry and Andres Iniesta, injured since the beginning of the month, are also doubts, while Barca have forced recovery. Off the field, the end was a large deployment of security in and around Rome to prevent violent incidents both swollen with displaced with local 'tifosi' radical. In addition to the influx of agents support from England and Spain, has decided to ban alcohol sales in much of the city to coincide with the date of the game.

Argentine striker Lionel Messi today reiterated his desire to finish his career at Barcelona, and expects the club decides to sell within a few years, as happened with his former partner Ronaldo de Assis Ronaldinho, a player who gave him many important things to Barça Finally it was treated badly. "

In an interview with the program Hat-Trick Channel 33, Messi again emphasized that his intention is to withdraw from Barça. "I came here to chiquito. Here I all my life and for my part, I never go, unless the Barcelona I want more. "

With just 21 years, the Argentine international took over from his friend and idol Ronaldinho Camp Nou (23 goals leads officials this season) and one of the icons of world football. However, Messi knows that football provides many turns and, like the crack of Brazil, one day may leave through the back door if low performance. "It is not impossible. Look what what happened to Ronnie. In the past year, he was not happy, and that's not because I knew what they wanted, "he said.

In any case, the tip azulgrana, under contract until 2014 and a termination clause of 150 million, expected to finish his story in a different way. So when was asked about the possibility of calling at Real Madrid, Chelsea and Inter Milan made it clear that is not ever going to another team for money.

"Come here thirteen years with this club and I gave everything to me and my family. The affection of the people is most important, what comes over me, and I do not intend to go anywhere," he said. During the program, Messi discussed some aspects of football, be denied an individual player and he will not intimidate the defenses that are used to limit the regulation. "I have never felt a pacifier and I never been hiding. The more you get kicked, I'm really interested in going into the game and do things. "

He also described the battle front of the Manchester United striker Cristiano Ronaldo and he will remain the center of the planet's best footballer. "No game to be better than Cristiano Ronaldo, playing for my team and to get titles," he said.

A month after his departure to China, Messi again put under the command of Pep Guardiola as Olympic champion

Barca get their stars for the League

A month ago scarce, Barcelona and Messi lived a situation radically different from what yesterday was staged on the lawn of the estate. By then, Argentina called for the incorporation of a Barca player to Olympic team that was already concentrated in China.

Barcelona, called the right to try to impose Sports his judgement and the player lived a situation of tension hardly sustainable. This scenario, had nothing to do with the image that was yesterday when Messi was able to return to train with the team after missing 29 days. What could have been a crisis of confidence with unpredictable consequences ended yesterday culminate in a happy reunion.

As the Barcelona coach, Pep Guardiola in Florence before leaving the tour of the United States in which Leo did not participate, "we hope that when it does come back happy and content with the gold medal round his neck. We you will receive with open arms because we are stronger with him. " And so it happened yesterday.

The return of Messi represents a strengthening of luxury for a team that knew how to do duties when his star was absent (qualify for the Champions) and that within four days can not fail in his visit to Soria in the first game of the season.

Messi arrives grateful to the club and committed to the full. The proof of their satisfaction is evident in statements that the Argentine made from China. "Thanks Barca, Pep thanks for giving me the chance to play this competition and fulfill my dream. I have helped a lot," said Leo nothing else placed under orders Sergio Batista and then repeated it after winning gold to Nigeria.

Of his commitment, nor doubt. The Argentine, after the final, not stayed in China to attend the closing ceremony, nor was the rest of his team to Argentina to be received as heroes. What was finishing his final shot and go out to Barcelona where he arrived last Sunday ready to cooperate in whatever.

The first thing we did was collect their mates and his coach and, with medal in hand, to thank the effort. Later, in private conversation with the technician, offered to travel to Krakow on Monday, despite beating the plane that accumulated.

Guardiola thanked him for the gesture, but opted to stay in Barcelona to overcome the jet-lag. " While his companions were in Poland, Leo was exercised on Tuesday along with Victor Sanchez and Juanjo Brau, the person who knows best the functioning of the body's best player in the world.

It was not until yesterday afternoon when the Argentine was able to reunite with the entire group. This team has done that while duties in the Champions while he was leading Argentina in Beijing, recognized as the leader who must pull the car in the remainder of the season.

Messi, as said Guardiola, has returned to Barcelona bigger than it was. And that is an asset that must Barcelona seized.

His triumph in the decisive participation of Argentina in the Olympic Games, coupled with the actions he did during last shot at Leo as a strong candidate to triumph in the dispute of the "Golden Ball" this year.

At the end of the season, seemed sung that Cristiano Ronaldo would be the candidate for the maximum award which rewards the best player in the world, but if facing irrelevant Euro Luso and the injury that still keeps him away from the playgrounds with the impressive participation in the Barcelona Games, it seems obvious that Leo is gaining ground at Manchester United player.

Therefore, the most experienced yesterday one day joyful. The crack Messi returned to training with his colleagues to pull the car. The crack is back home.