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Messi planning to make Beijing

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Lionel Messi has announced that he plans to play for Argentina at the Olympic games this August in Beijing. Instead of playing in the qualifiers for the Champions league with Barcelona.

“It is up to me to decide and the Olympic Games are something I will never be able to play in again. I am very excited at the prospect,” The Argentina Soccer star admitted that he hadn’t informed his club but that he’d be surprised if there would be a problem. “We don’t know who we are going to be playing yet (in the qualifier) but Barcelona don’t depend only on me to win games. I think the club and the fans will understand,”

A disappointing campaign for Barcelona, finishing 3rd and without a trophy for two years means that the club miss out on automatic qualification and will have to play a 2 legged qualifier on August 12/13 & 26/27 if they want to play in the group stage. The Olympic football tournament (in which Argentina are currently champions) takes place between August 6 to 23.

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