Now the Barcelona court must proceed with sentencing the star and his father either to prison or agree with the prosecutor and settle for a fine as punishment.
Messi was sentenced to 21 months in prison for a 4.1 million euro tax fraud after he defrauded income from his image rights which he instead concealed through a network of offshore shell companies, Efe news reported.
Neither Argentina captain Messi nor his father were expected to serve time in jail, as under Spanish law sentences under two years can be served under probation. Today, Messi could have been a Real Madrid player, of course.
The former agent of Lionel Messi has revealed that the Barcelona forward could well have ended up at Real Madrid had his own personal circumstances worked out differently.
The judge in charge of the case will now make a decision bearing in mind the prosecutor's recommendations. If that had happened, I would have taken him to Madrid for a trial.
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On the day where Barcelona celebrated the milestone of their greatest ever player reaching the age of 30, the thought that Messi could have ended up anywhere else, let alone Madrid, is nearly unfathomable.
Ronaldo has denied any wrongdoing.
Goalscoring and creating aside, his all-round play earned him five Ballon d'Or crowns, enabling the Catalan giants to eight La Liga titles and four European Cups.
The five-time Ballon d'Or victor has been with Roccuzzo since 2008 and plan to Wednesday on June 30 in a star-studded affair in Argentina.
The maximum fine would be 255,500 euros ($285,164), Reuter's calculations showed, on top of a almost 2 million Euro fine handed down as part of last year's sentence.
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