Messi provided few touches before the eyes of his father and Josep Colomer

Lionel Messi in Qatar yesterday gave a master class at 24 promises that are part of Aspire Academy for Sports Excellence, a project that capitanea Rosell and led Josep Colomer, formerly responsible for the quarry FC Barcelona in the capital of the Arab country. Argentine striker travelled on Saturday afternoon to Doha yesterday morning to participate in this training which was also present Luis Felipe Scolari, Portuguese selector.

Chosen from a selection of 400,000 children from seven African countries, Lionel Messi was impressed by the abilities of this selection from the centre of high performance installed in Qatar. "The Aspire Academy has an impressive facility and the team with which he trained think that has a great future in the world of football. Its really exciting to see the high level of support that has football in Qatar, "said Messi.

After this training led by Lionel, players of the team Sub14 of Aspire faced a Sub15 of Porto. The striker took the azulgrana festive day scheduled by doctors in their recovery to make this shift. The pace of recovery Messi is very good and might be able to reappear next weekend against Racing Santander. Messi planned to participate in the training that the team will perform this evening at the Camp Nou. The presence of Lionel Messi serves to celebrate the start of the first batch of this operation triumph applied in the world of football.

Luis Felipe Scolari participated in a clinic with children in which he stressed the importance of this specific work that develops the program. "It imporatnte find these talents to early age to start working with them as soon as possible and provide more room for improvement. This project offers the potential ideal for those players who may become cracks for a future, "said the Brazilian coach. "Africa has enormous potential. The mix of this talent with the structure that exists in this center can be highly beneficial to the world of football, "he added.

This is not the first time that world figures attending this high performance centre to participate in workouts with the children selected. Previously had come Pele, Zinedine Zidane or Ronaldinho.

Apart from the training of Messi and Scolari, the day yesterday was a conference of specialists to discuss specific aspects of the formation of footballers. After this act with children, Lionel Messi launched way back to Barcelona.