Emotional Messi avoids media

"I wholeheartedly want to thank Pep for everything he has given me in my professional career and personal life," the Argentine wrote on his Facebook page.

"Due to the emotion I feel, I preferred not to be present at Pep's press conference, especially because I knew they (the press) would have been focussing on the faces of the grieving players and this is something that I did not want to show."u00a0

Lionel Messi