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Olympiakos held Barcelona to a goalless draw on Tuesday for the Champions League as its players worked hard to prevent the Spaniards from scoring on a number of occasions at the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium.

The Reds fielded a defense-minded team, with its starting line-up sporting no strikers at all.

Lionel Messi scored his 100th goal in European competition to lead 10-man Barcelona to a 3-1 victory at home to Olympiakos in the Champions League on Wednesday.

Barcelona president Jose Maria Barthomeu revealed that the superstar of the team, Lionel Messi, has already extended his contract with the club, Bgnes reports. 

In an interview with Spanish TV "8tv", the boss of the Catalans admitted that Messi's father, Jorge Oraccio Messi, has signed the new contract on behalf of his son, it will keep Argentine footballer at Noe Camp until 2022.

Lionel Messi will re-sign his contract with Barcelona, the club confirmed, quoted by bTV.

All the details of the new agreement are specified and it is only expected that the star will put its signature in the following week when he will return from his vacation.

Тhe new contract with Messi will be until June 30, 2021.

Lionel Messi could be facing a heavy penalty after swearing at the assistant referee in a World Cup qualifier against Chile. The 29-year-old football “magician” might have scored Argentina’s winning goal in his national side’s win against Chile (1-0) for the 2018 Russian World Cup qualifiers in South America, but the Barcelona super-star was infuriated for some reason with the assistant.

The young Afghan boy who captivated hearts after he was pictured wearing a plastic bag as an improvised Lionel Messi jersey has appealed to the UN refugee agency after fleeing Afghanistan.

Turkey has sent a "Peace Ball" gift pack to Afghan boy Murtaza Ahmadi, after a photo of him wearing a replica shirt of Barcelona footballer Lionel Messi made from a plastic bag went viral. 

Argentine football star Lionel Messi has sent not one, but two jerseys to the five-year-old Afghan boy who became an Internet sensation last month when he was pictured wearing a plastic bag with "Messi" scrawled on it in marker pen.
 

A young Afghan boy, who captured the hearts of millions when he was pictured wearing a plastic bag he had turned into a Lionel Messi shirt, he received a signed jersey from the Barcelona football star.

Murtaza Ahmadi, 5, attracted global attention when a picture emerged of him playing football wearing a blue and white plastic bag with Messi’s name and number written on the back.

The recently crowned Miss BumBum had vowed to “stop hooking up with footballers and having bad sex”, but she is still showing her support for the athletes.

The curvy beauty wanted to congratulate Barcelona striker Lionel Messi for winning his fifth Ballon d’Or and posted unique celebratory snaps in his honour to her Instagram account.