The napkin that started it all
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The napkin that started it all
From Yahoo!:
On Dec. 14, 2000, Barcelona technical secretary Carles Rexach held a meeting at the Pompeia Tennis Club to determine the future of a 13-year-old Argentinean who had shined during a trial with the Catalan club a few months previously.
Rexach was keen to get a deal done with Lionel Messi's father Jorge, so the club could start pumping the youngster full of the growth hormones that would make him a superstar. He drew up a contract on the nearest available piece of paper, which ended up turning a regular napkin into one of the most important sporting documents in history.
It reads:
"In Barcelona, on the 14th of December of 2000 and in the presence of Josep Minguella and Horacio [Gaggioli], Carles Rexach, FCB technical secretary, it commits under his responsibility and despite some views against it to sign the player Lionel Messi, as long as we remain within the amounts agreed upon."
The document is now 12 years old — nearly the same age as Messi when his future was decided on a disposable piece of paper that a Spanish businessman might otherwise have spat his tapas into. The hallowed face wipe was hanging in the office of Messi's lawyer a few years ago, where it presumably still lives today.
12 Years later!!!!
And my favorite part :
"Rexach was keen to get a deal done with Lionel Messi's father Jorge, so the club could start pumping the youngster full of the growth hormones that would make him a superstar."
LMAO, couldn't of said it better myself. Yahoo journalism
A special date nonetheless.
On Dec. 14, 2000, Barcelona technical secretary Carles Rexach held a meeting at the Pompeia Tennis Club to determine the future of a 13-year-old Argentinean who had shined during a trial with the Catalan club a few months previously.
Rexach was keen to get a deal done with Lionel Messi's father Jorge, so the club could start pumping the youngster full of the growth hormones that would make him a superstar. He drew up a contract on the nearest available piece of paper, which ended up turning a regular napkin into one of the most important sporting documents in history.
It reads:
"In Barcelona, on the 14th of December of 2000 and in the presence of Josep Minguella and Horacio [Gaggioli], Carles Rexach, FCB technical secretary, it commits under his responsibility and despite some views against it to sign the player Lionel Messi, as long as we remain within the amounts agreed upon."
The document is now 12 years old — nearly the same age as Messi when his future was decided on a disposable piece of paper that a Spanish businessman might otherwise have spat his tapas into. The hallowed face wipe was hanging in the office of Messi's lawyer a few years ago, where it presumably still lives today.
12 Years later!!!!
And my favorite part :
"Rexach was keen to get a deal done with Lionel Messi's father Jorge, so the club could start pumping the youngster full of the growth hormones that would make him a superstar."
LMAO, couldn't of said it better myself. Yahoo journalism
A special date nonetheless.
Last edited by barca 2011 on Sat 15 Dec - 22:17:41; edited 1 time in total
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It is now a piece of history.
Nice handwriting
Nice handwriting
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You are right. Typo!!Real Kandahar wrote:12 yrs*
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Wow! From surgery boy to being one of the greatest of all time...
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perhaps one of the most valuable piece of paper in football's history....
very elegant. i guess it would feel good if i use it wiping my ass. LOL I'll never do something like that! PEACE
very elegant. i guess it would feel good if i use it wiping my ass. LOL I'll never do something like that! PEACE
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I wonder whats the value of the napkin if it was to be sold
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