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Abidal: Messi stopped me messaging Barcelona team during cancer battle

Abidal: Messi stopped me messaging Barcelona team during cancer battle

The former France international left-back says that his former colleagues saw him as "a corpse" when he was at his lowest point
Eric Abidal has claimed that Lionel Messi prevented him from sending messages to his Barcelona team-mates when he was undergoing treatment for liver cancer.
The former France international defender took in six years at Camp Nou, but spent a prolonged period on the sidelines after being diagnosed in 2011.
He has now revealed that during his treatment, five-time Ballon d’Or winner Messi told him to stop sending the team messages.
“When the doctor told me I would need an operation I was happy. It is a suffering that I wouldn't wish on anyone,” he told Canal+.
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“I was very thin and before a game, I made a video to send to the players to cheer them up and send support.
“Do you know what Messi told me? ‘Don't send us things like that anymore because it hurts us'.
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“I didn't see it like that, I was trying to encourage them but they told me they saw me like a corpse and it left them upset.”
Abidal, who has had a liver transplant and has been given the all-clear, concluded his career with Monaco and Olympiakos, while he also turned out with Lille and Lyon.
He won three Ligue 1 titles in France, but enjoyed his greatest successes with Barca, where he claimed La Liga four times and the Champions League twice

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