Ooredoo Global Ambassador Lionel Messi has officially joined the French club, Paris Saint-Germain. Lionel Messi has signed two years deal with PSG with the option of an extra year. The six-time Ballon d'Or winner Lionel Messi's move to Paris brings his historic 20-plus-year spell at Barcelona to an end.

Ooredoo began its partnership with Paris Saint-Germain in September 2013, working together to develop youth and community support across Ooredoo's footprint in the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia.

In addition to fun joint campaigns for fans, Ooredoo and Paris Saint-Germain have also joined forces to offer a global community football coaching program ‘the Paris Saint-Germain Academy by Ooredoo’. This is an innovative community coaching program that creates life opportunities for youth across Ooredoo’s footprint - it has been held in the Maldives twice as well.

Lionel “Leo” Messi is Ooredoo’s global brand ambassador to support our vision of enriching people’s lives around the world. Inspired by Ooredoo’s commitment to making a difference in communities around the world, Messi has become an exclusive global brand ambassador for Ooredoo since 2013.

 In this role, Messi supports Ooredoo in various programs to increase the life chances of young people in the Middle East, North Africa, and South-East Asia to help them fulfill their hopes and dreams. As part of our campaigns with Messi, we have also facilitated the opportunity for Maldivians to meet Messi.