Lionel Messi has fulfilled a promise made last year to Doctors Without Borders and donated over €70,000 to the charity after winning a libel case against newspaper La Razon, the player's management company has confirmed.
Spain's Supreme Court has agreed with a Barcelona court's ruling that the criticism against the forward had been "unnecessary and impertinent" in an article published after Argentina's World Cup final defeat to Germany in 2014.
Beyond just criticising the Barca player, journalist Alfonso Ussia, who wrote the article, went as far as to claim that Messi wore a wig and had used the performance-enhancing drug Nandrolone.
Last year's ruling stated that the article went outside the bounds of an opinion piece and ordered that La Razon, its editor Francisco Marhuenda and Ussia should pay €72,783.20 to Messi.
The case had been left on standby for the last 17 months but was finally closed on Thursday by the Supreme Court, with Messi then donating his compensation to charity.
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