‘Messi Had Too Many Pizzas Last Season’

After Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and
Ivan Rakitic fired their side to a 3-0
victory over Granada on Saturday,
former Barcelona star Carles Rexach
has hit out at Messi, claiming that the

Argentine ate “too many pizzas last
season”.
The 2013-14 campaign was an
underwhelming one for the Argentine
as he tallied his lowest number of
goals since 2008-09 and Barca
finished the campaign without a
major trophy.
Rexach, who played for the Blaugrana
from 1967-1981 and later coached the
club, believes the attacker gained
weight last year because he was eating
too many pizzas.
“Before he would eat at the club and
then rest afterwards, but it seems to
me that last year Messi ate more
pizzas than he wanted or needed,”
Rexach told Regio7.