FC Barcelona extended the contract of star striker Lionel Messi until 2021.

MADRID: Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi will sign a new four-year deal with the club, keeping him with the Spanish giants until 2021, the side said on Wednesday.

Five times a Ballon d'Or winner, the Argentinean forward was entering the final 12 months of his current deal before the new one was agreed.

"The deal will be signed in the coming weeks when Messi returns to the team for pre-season training," the club said in a statement.

The club gave no details about the contract that will keep the Argentinian megastar and five times Ballon d'Or winner at Camp Nou until his reaches the age of 34.

The 30-year-old Argentina international joined FC Barcelona in 2000 when he was just 13 years old in the youth training centre