For a good number of football lovers, Rosario is the best player of all time, although there are those who think that Pelé or Maradona are the eternal owners of the throne.
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What nobody can dispute is that the ’10’ led his team to a title that shocked the world, because millions, regardless of whether they were followers of Messi or not, they forced him to finally conquer the most important crown of his career.
Lionel Messi was always an introverted person. Before becoming the idol of the masses, he dazzled the world at Barcelona and pose for the photo with the most interactions in the Instagram story with the World Cup in your hands, The Argentine was one more player who could walk the streets without bodyguards.
Lionel Messi bought tennis shoes in San Andresito de Pereira
As Luis Eduardo Giraldo told El Tiempo, On January 13, 2005, the ‘crack’ arrived by chance at San Andresito, in the center of the capital of Risaralda.
The then tennis salesman commented that several players from the Argentine National Team sub-20, among them the young Messi: “I’ll never forget what he bought: a size 31 white tennis shoe. They had a golden pimp and four cameras in the back, the kind that were used at the time.”
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Giraldo recalled that those sports shoes, which could even have been faked, they cost the player 75,000 Colombian pesos (less than $15 at today’s exchange rate). In fact, the man said that Messi gave him $100 and he later took the money back to the hotel. for that favor, The Argentine star gave the seller 10,000 pesos as a gift.
The man had the sense of smell to intuit that this young man would be one of the best in the world, so he asked him to take a picture. To date, that is the portrait of a player who would later become a world champion and one of the best soccer players in history.
