Barca defend Messi campaign

Barcelona have shielded their campaign online in backing of Lionel Messi after the Argentine whiz's 21-month jail sentence for assessment misrepresentation.

"We are included in a contention in which there is the inclination that FC Barcelona has carried out an assessment wrongdoing though that is not the situation," said club representative Josep Vives on Monday.

The Spanish monsters were just "shielding somebody who has been is as yet being dealt with unjustifiably," he included.

Last Friday Barcelona took to online networking taking after Messi and his dad's conviction for abstaining from paying expenses on €4.16 million of the player's pay earned from his picture rights from 2007-09.

"Utilizing the hashtag #WeAreAllLeoMessi while posting a photograph or message with both hands open, the crusade is urging all Barça fans to express their sensitivity for the best footballer on the planet by voicing their genuine backing on informal communities," an announcement on the club's site clarified.

Messi to appeal 21-month prison sentence for tax fraud

The legal counselors of Lionel Messi and his dad Jorge have declared that they will appeal the 21-month jail sentences gave to their client for tax fraud on Wednesday.

Barcelona star Messi was discovered blameworthy of swindling Spain's assessment power of €4.1 million somewhere around 2007 and 2009.

He is not anticipated that would serve time in prison as sentences under two years for people with no earlier feelings can be suspended under Spanish law.

Hence Messi's legal advisors say they consider the sentence to be "typical" however keep up his guiltlessness - and additionally his dad's - and demand they will keep on fighting the choice.

They contend that the case made for indicting Messi, laying on the lawfulness of organizations made in Belize and Uruguay, ought to really prompt his vindication.

The offer will be documented with the Portuguese Supreme Court, with choices more often than not came to in under a year.

Messi has likewise been fined six weeks' wages (€1.7m) in the wake of being blamed for utilizing the organizations to keep away from tax assessment on his picture rights.