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Earthquake in Barcelona: Messi leaves?

"Messi throws everything he did here in the trash, breaks his heart that this is how it ended"

The man who brought the flea to Barcelona in a special interview with Walla!

Sports: "The fans are rightly hurt by him. The management is temporary, and his story here could be eternal."

20 years have passed from the job interview that cost Real dearly and the signing of the napkin to the rift in which he blames his associate, and Horacio Gioli does not forgive

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Aviad Segal, Barcelona

Tuesday, September 01, 2020, 3:00 p.m.

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"I first met him on September 16, 2000. I saw a 13-year-old boy with legs the length and thickness of my fingers in his hands. I said to myself, 'Such a boy, can he even play football?'. That day we went to the Barcelona training ground and on the pitch my opinion about him We got to the tests, so they included him in a game between children A and B. Gerard Pique and Cesc Fabregas played with him in the team, but the one who caught everyone's attention was no. No one could stop him. Barça's people had enough "Of course a few minutes to understand what they have in hand, but from here until his official signing we went through many more hardships. I probably did not know that his arrival on these tests would change the fate of the club, and it also took the club quite a while to understand that."

Horacio Gioli came from Argentina to Barcelona in the 1970s with the goal of playing for Espanyol, but a serious injury caused him to retire and become a player agent.

Today he is, among other things, the agent of Marco Asensio from Real Madrid, and can afford, by definition, to choose with tweezers the players he wants to work with.

But in 1998 he was still looking for reality.

Lionel Messi was then only 11 years old, a player for the Newell Old Boys boys team.

"I still did not know him then, but I had two partners from Rosario who talked about a wonderful and small actor. He was still too small, but two years later they mentioned him again, and sent me his father, Jorge."

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"Luckily for Barça, I did not get this job in Madrid, so I stayed in Barcelona. Otherwise I would probably have taken him to the training ground of Real Madrid, or Atletico."

The Messi family wanted to move Leo to a big team in Europe, it didn't really matter to them exactly what.

Horacio lives in Barcelona, ​​so they decided to send the child to a place where there is someone of their own who can help with adaptation.

It is almost hard to believe how prosaic the chain of events was that led the greatest player in the history of Barcelona to become one.

Shortly before he planned with the Messi family the arrival of Leo for the tests in Spain, Horacio negotiated a position at a major players' agency in Madrid.

"Luckily for Barça, I did not get that job, so I stayed in Barcelona," he says, "otherwise I would probably have taken him to the training ground of Real Madrid, or Atletico. Who knows what would have happened if I had gotten that job in Madrid."

But Horacio as mentioned remained in Barcelona, ​​and starting from that day in September 20 years ago also Leo Messi.

"Barça did not quite want him. With the exception of one or two at the club, led by technical director Carls Raszak, Barça's management, including President Gaspart, were afraid of the economic aspect involved in such a deal. "And of course she was also supposed to take on the growth hormone treatment he received in those years. It's a kind of project that Barça did not want to take on at the time, certainly not with a 13-year-old boy."

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"Rashak took the napkin that was next to his plate, because it was the only paper that was available, and began to write on it: 'I pledge, and despite the opposition of others, to sign the footballer Lionel Messi.'"

Barça did not say to Messi "no", but neither did "yes", the same stutter that may have been repeated in some way 20 years later.

He continued to train with Fabregas and Pique, but at the end of November of that year one of his teammates in Rosario approached Gioli and told him that the Messi family was tired: , Josep Maria vingi, tennis club Montjuic in Barcelona.

"We sat in the bar of the club, ate and drank, and I told Rexach on the will of the taxes to leave." arrived moments later received the status of heritage battle in the history of Barca. Rexach, himself a man The club from the age of 12 and for 44 years afterwards, was probably the only one who could understand the magnitude of the hour.

"He took the napkin that was next to his plate, because it was the only paper available, and began to write on it: 'In Barcelona, ​​on December 14, 2000, in the presence of Messrs. Mingia and Gaioli, I Carles Rashak, the technical director of the Barcelona Football Club, undertake, and despite the opposition of others, to sign the footballer Lionel Messi subject to an agreement on the financial terms'.

This document was in fact a valid contract, Messi's first contract with Barcelona.

This little paper changed the club, the city of Barcelona and maybe football in general. "

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Horacio Gioli (Photo: AP)

"Before he sends such a one-sided letter, I would like him to speak to his crowd at Barça. A football club is not some limited company, but all the club members, the fans, this city, and they now feel really hurt by it.

I have friends here who have not yet left the market "

Gaiuli heard about the announcement of Messi's departure from Barça in a registered letter.

Five years after signing for Leo on his first contract, he moved back and became a close adviser to his father Jorge, who has remained since his son's sole representative.

Gaioli was with Messi in his senior team debut against Porto, and also in the first league game against Espanyol almost a year later, in a stadium not far from where that napkin was signed.

This piece of paper is still kept at Gioli's in one of the safes at the bank in Andorra, where he lives.

Despite many millions in offers, he claims, he is not willing to sell the napkin.

He thought of lending her to a museum at Camp Nou, but they did not ask for her.

And as the relationship between Messi and Barça has looked in recent days, it is not at all certain that they will ask soon.

"It breaks my heart to see that this is how it ended," Gaioli says.

Although he still keeps in touch with family and is defined as a close friend of theirs, Gioli shifts most of the blame towards the player: "Before sending such a one-sided letter, I would like him to speak to his crowd at Barça. A football club is not a limited company, But all the club members, the fans, this city, and they now feel really hurt by it.

I have friends here who have not yet left the market.

Not only did I think he should have ended his career at Barça, but ended it with his huge statue outside of Camp Nou and later become a representative figure of the club for life.

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A painting by Messi Caca Guevara on the streets of Barcelona (Photo: GettyImages)

"The president is not the real owner of the club, nor the management. They are temporary. Messi's story at Barça could have been eternal, he could have been the president himself."

"He had a 20-year career at Barça, and he gave her a lot, but he also got a lot from her. He is the best footballer in the world not only because of his footballing qualities, but because he won many titles and scored a lot of goals, but it must be remembered that he played among other things. In the teams around him there were nine world champions. Barça made its players no less great than they made her great. In this behavior of Messi, he throws all the beautiful things he did in this club in the trash. The president is not the real owner of the club, nor the management. "They are temporary. Messi's story at Barça could have been eternal, he could have been the president himself."

"A football player can not say 'it's me or the president'. To my player it could not have happened. For me, even though everything was known in advance, I did not believe that Messi would go - I did not think it a year ago, a month ago and not even a week ago, though I'm in touch with everyone.Despite the way he's portrayed in the media, Barça's president Bartomeu is a good, understanding and open person. He may have been wrong on some issues, but he's a person with whom an agreement can be reached. And the people around him could have led him differently. "

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Horacio Gioli with Marco Asensio (from Twitter)

How do you see this story ending?

"What is certain is that Messi and Barça have a signed contract for next season. Although I am not a referee, but from my experience as an agent I have no doubt that the court will rule that Barça should receive compensation for his release so free release - I do not see it happening. Beyond that, The club that takes him needs to think well beforehand. We may be heading for a legal process that will last four to five years, even after Messi retires. Clubs may be wary of taking the risk now, and teams will have to wait until the end of the year to complete his contract. I believe that in the end it will be closed in an agreement between the parties, and maybe they will reach an agreement that it will remain. "

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