Lionel Messi said he hopes to return to Spotify Camp Nou for the goodbye he "never got" as a player at Barcelona after visiting the revamped stadium for the first time on Sunday.

Messi, back in Spain ahead of joining up with Argentina , posted photographs on social media inside Camp Nou just over 24 hours after firing Inter Miami into the next round of the MLS playoffs.

"Last night, I returned to a place that I miss with all my heart," he wrote alongside the images on Monday.

"It's a place where I was immensely happy, where you made me feel like the happiest person in the world a thousand times over.

"I hope that one day I can return, and not just to say goodbye as a player, as I never got to do..."

Messi, 38, spent most of his career at Barça before making a hasty exit to

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