Lionel Messi Buys Fifth Division Spanish Football Club Cornellà

Lionel Messi has acquired Unió Esportiva Cornellà, a tiny Spanish lower-division football club based just outside Barcelona, the city where the Argentine star made his name.

Cornellà is a 75-year-old club in its namesake city in the Barcelona metropolitan area and plays in Spain’s fifth division. While Messi, one of football’s all-time greats, has no direct links to the team, he moved to Barcelona at the age of 12 to join FC Barcelona.