Venezuelan anti-imperialist President, Nicholas Maduro, confessed that he cried when Argentina's forward departing press conference.

He slammed Barca and expressed solidarity with the club.

"I cried with him, when I saw him crying, I cried. Because he is a good, authentic boy, a great sporting glory of the world," Maduro said at a press conference in Caracas.

He said, "How ugly, what they did to Messi?"

"What those people, the directors of Barcelona Club did to the greatest glory that Barcelona has ever had, has no name. They kicked Messi out when he is a noble boy, and all he wanted was to finish his career in Barcelona," he said.

"All our love and Solidarity with Messi's tears," he added.