Messi will not attend Barcelona training on Monday, reports La Vanguardia
Lionel Messi of FC Barcelona looks on during the Liga match between Real Madrid CF and FC Barcelona at Estadio Santiago Bernabeu on March 1, 2020 in Madrid, Spain.
Lionel Messi will not take a planned coronavirus test on Sunday or attend training on Monday after his shock announcement earlier this week that he wants to leave Barcelona, La Vanguardia newspaper reported on Saturday.
The paper reported Messi will send another burofax, the method by which he told the club he wanted to leave, to inform them of his decision not to attend training.
A burofax is a service used in Spain to urgently dispatch a document through a certified email, which issues a digital certificate with legal validity.