09/10/2021 11:58 PM
Clarín.com
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Updated 09/10/2021 23:58
Although the Argentine soccer team is everyone's team, it is known that historically
the home of the national team
has been the River Plate stadium. The albiceleste team plays most of its matches there and, consequently, it is the local venue
that
Lionel Messi
has stepped on the most
. Who not only has that link with the
millionaire
set
, of course. And on the night of his three goals and the celebration of the Copa América with the public that returned to the field, he received
a very special gift
.
On the 10th, the Argentine traveled back to Paris
with a River Plate jacket in his suitcase.
Will you sign with Marcelo Gallardo's team?
Did your red-black heart change from Newell's because of that statement purely sustained in the desire that more than one River fan has regarding a supposed condition of Messi, a red-and-white fan?
Messi celebrates his first goal against Bolivia.
Photo Marcelo Carroll
Nothing of that.
The present was the work of
Diego Fabre
, a River Plate toolmaker.
The reason did not have so much to do with an official decision (there was nothing prepared) but rather that the employee wanted to honor him for a particular reason:
he was the one who gave a little Messi, in 1999, the shirt he wore when he went to test to the
Núñez
club
.
So, in a way, it came full circle.
And it is what also at some point the number and the legend that he stamped on the shirt say: 21, for the years that have passed, the name of
Leo
, of course, and a "Thank you" on the lower part of the back.
This is how he told it on his Instagram account.
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That denouement in the story between the best footballer in the world and the Argentine club is well known: Newell's did not give him the pass and
the Messi family ended up moving to Spain
, where Barcelona would pay for his hormonal treatment to help him grow.
Fabra, before that denouement that could have changed history, saw the best player of these times live when he was just a
purrete
.
And he
never forgot it
, which is no small saying;
because boy do they pass through the lower ranks, and how to remember them all, and even more so when it is about one who did not even end up playing at the club.
That gesture ended up being reciprocated, because Messi, in gratitude,
left him a shirt
of
his
from Argentina with his name and the number 10. One that the utility will keep forever.
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