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Spain·Football

Lionel Messi buys Spanish fifth-division club UE Cornellà near Barcelona

Thursday, 16 April 2026, 21:05 · 1 min read

Lionel Messi has acquired UE Cornellà, a modest Spanish football club based in the municipality of Cornellà de Llobregat — a working-class town of around 92,000 people on the outskirts of Barcelona. The club announced the purchase on Thursday without disclosing the financial terms of the deal, describing it as

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Al Jazeera EnglishLionel Messi buys Barcelona-based Spanish football club Cornella ↗︎El PaísLeo Messi compra el UE Cornellà: una apuesta por la industria, el fútbol base y una mayor proximidad con Barcelona ↗︎
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